Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog

Successful criminals know that all security systems have weak points and they set about the ‘job’ of locating and exploiting them. And they know this because most security systems are after-the-fact considerations, or add-ons. The security system wasn...

Knowledge management in complex utility organizations has become the sine qua non for continuing progress and profitability. Email communications contain so much information that they are ripe repositories for the expansion of knowledge – as well as the...

Just a couple of years many were nervous about talking too much about the cloud and its great possibilities for the utilities. But times have changed and when we read announcements like one out recently from OpenText it’s nice to see that our vision for...

We on the Microsoft Worldwide Utilities Team have been putting form around the concept of the Smart Energy Ecosystem, a system where all participants take some role in the management, use and even the production of electricity on a connected grid that...

  Late last year Jon and I traveled to Japan and met with a number of Utilities. A major challenge at the time was the uncertain future of Japan’s nuclear industry. Today marks one of the most significant milestones in Japan’s power industry: the...