Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog

We’ve been speaking with a number of  power and utility companies struggling with legacy email and other communications systems. In the day and age of Windows Phone 7 and other smart phones, employees are driving the utility’s technology system agenda...

The wide scale, worldwide  implementation of smart meters is revealing tremendous opportunities for utilities to manage their entire business differently, and more effectively. They are using the data influx to refine their mechanics for billing...

We have all heard the phrase “BI for the Masses” but making this a reality has been a very difficult feat indeed. For Power and Utility companies few will argue that fulfilling the vision of the smart grid will require better visualization and analytic...

At Microsoft we are committed to developing technologies that help consumers and businesses reduce their environmental footprint. It’s a corporate priority for us and this effort extends to our campuses, our products, our data centers and the work being...

Back in December we wrote about how Utilities around the world are using SharePoint for many different applications including managing smart meter deployments, outage management, demand side management programs, plant operations and corporate intranets...