AWARDS

Utiliworks client, the City of San Marcos, TX was awarded the Best Smart Infrastructure/Grid Project at CS Week in Nashville, TN. The Expanding Excellence Awards were announced on May 27 by CS Week and Electric Light & Power Magazine.

Utiliworks’ client, the City of Ruston, won the Smart Grid Project of the Year by Utility Automation and Engineering T&D Magazine, a division of PennWell Corporation. Click here to read the magazine article. The awards were announced and distributed during the opening keynote ceremony for DistribuTECH on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 in Tampa, Florida. Click here to read the press release.

The Town of Danvers, MA was selected to receive approximately $8.5M from the DOE Smart Grid Investment Grants late 2009. The federal stimulus funds will be allocated towards a program to deploy 12,000 smart meters for the full customer base, upgrade cyber security systems and automate outage management. Click here to read the full press release.

The City of Ruston received an SGIG award late 2009 for $4.3 million late October, 2009. Three major phases and overall program management services consists of engineering, design, planning, project management, cyber security, customer education and policy initiatives. The major projects areas are: Customer Information Systems, electric AMI system and MDM system and electric distribution improvements. Click here to read the full press release.

Utiliworks’ client, the city of San Marcos was awarded the AMI Project of the Year at Distributech 2009 by Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine. Click here to read the press release.

PUBLICATIONS

Dale Pennington's article on HAN capabilities in the AMI marketplace was published in Utility Automation & Engineering T&D. Read the article here.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Utiliworks will be a speaker at the Spintelligent’s Smart Energy International Conference & Expo in San Jose, Ca September 7-9, 2010. The presentation topic is on Demand Side Management- Assimilating the Pieces of the Smart Grid Puzzle.

Dale Pennington, Utiliworks Managing Director will be presenting at “The Smart Grid: From Concept to Reality” hosted by The Energy Services Alliance of Manitoba, ESAM. The event takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada June 10th, 2010.

Tisha Hayes, Senior Consultant will be presenting at Spintelligent’s Smart Energy International Conference & Expo. The event takes place in San Jose, Ca September 7-9, 2010.

Dale Pennington, Utiliworks’ Managing Director will be presenting at Distributech Conference & Exhibition March 23rd, 2010 at 3 p.m. Dale’s topic is on “Building a ‘Smart Grid’- How to Get it Done.”

Utiliworks has been invited to speak at Spintelligent's “Metering, Billing/ MDM America 2010” in San Diego, CA regarding Utiliworks’ SGIG selected client, the City of Ruston, LA. Darrel Caraway, City of Ruston will also present at 9 a.m. March 9th, 2010 on "The Construction of a Smart Grid Program with ARRA Grants."

Dale Pennington, Utiliworks Managing Director, presented at Spintelligent’s “Smart Energy East Coast,” in New York City. Dale spoke about “Meter Data Management” on October 28th, 2009.
Utiliworks was a guest participant in the ESMIG initiative in Brussels, Belgium on June 22nd.

Utiliworks was a guest speaker for the CS Conference held in Washington, D.C. the week of May 18-23rd, 2009. Utiliworks presented "Smart Metering and Getting Past the 20% Benefit Solution" with Ramona Brown, Project Manager, City of San Marcos. Click here to read the speaking materials.

Dale Pennington, Utiliworks Managing Director, presented at the Spintelligent's CIS/Billing America conference in Miami March, 2009. His topic was "Meter Data from Cradle to Grave, do you know where your Data is?" Click here to read the speaking materials.