by TST | Dec 15, 2016 | News
We are pleased to see that the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is encouraging state regulators to see cloud computing solutions for utilities as a way to improve service and customer experience, as well as modernizing the utility grid...
by TST | Dec 13, 2016 | News
Return on investment is an important consideration when making a major purchase. In most organizations, financial directors and board members will reject out-of-hand proposals that are presented without a potential return clearly stated in dollars and sense. Sometimes...
by TST | Dec 8, 2016 | News
Surprisingly often, E&O personnel tell us that they have no need to do plant construction estimates. That may sound shocking to people who work at IOUs, but a lot of co-ops and municipal utilities see no perceived need for a before-the-fact estimate of work to be...
by TST | Dec 1, 2016 | News
A lot of plant construction work is customer-requested, and customers get to share in some or all of the cost. While a few rare utilities have a flat rate policy, in most cases customer contribution is based upon job cost. Property developers and homeowners alike are...
by TST | Nov 8, 2016 | News
For over twenty years, we have been providing electric utilities with both completed connectivity models, and the tools to create and maintain such models. The extent to which those tools are applied has been all across the board – sometimes mostly complete and...
by Stu Watson | May 13, 2016 | Case Studies
Utility managers know more than most about the high cost of wasted energy. Not electrical energy. Human energy. So when it comes to helping their employees work faster and with less wasted effort, utility managers familiar with the software of TerraSpatial...
by Stu Watson | May 13, 2016 | Case Studies
Talk to longtime users of TerraSpatial Technologies integrated plant management software, and it quickly becomes obvious that they feel a sense of partnership. Take Cedarburg Light & Water in Wisconsin, for example. In the late 1990s, Cedarburg committed to...
by Stu Watson | May 13, 2016 | Case Studies
What would you do if you knew about a software product that could get more productivity out of every member of your utility’s team? Two Rivers Water & Light in Wisconsin bought it. So did Oconomowoc Utilities. And Cedarburg Light & Water Utility. Why?...
by Stu Watson | Dec 15, 2015 | Case Studies
Silos make for great photos. As components of a functioning electrical utility, they make no sense at all. If the different departments of your operation create and manage data that helps them do their jobs, that’s great. But if that data doesn’t flow...
by Stu Watson | Nov 13, 2015 | Case Studies
No business manager likes spikes. The spike of work orders when a flood of water takes down your grid. The downstream spike of open work orders, waiting for resolution at the end of the year. Because software from TerraSpatial Technologies smooths out spikes,...