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UtiliWorks Industry Recognition
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, 2010 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
Nicole Pennington and Nicole Naassan are published by Smart Grid News in November, 2011. Click here to read the article "Electric Vehicles: Fact and Fiction."
UtiliWorks was featured in the Business Section of Baton Rouge's local newspaper, the Advocate on June 19, 2011. Click here to read the article titled "Meter of the future."
UtiliWorks' article on "Energy Efficiency and the Smart Grid" is published in the November 2010 edition of Power Grid International Magazine. Click here to read the article.
UtiliWorks' Managing Director, Dale Pennington is published by Greentech Media, Inc. in June, 2010. Click here to read Dale's article on "Home Area Networks, Risk and Reality in the Smart Grid."
UtiliWorks was published in the 2010 May issue of Electric Light & Power Magazine. Click here to read the article "Demand Side Management- Fitting the Pieces Together."
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
Dale Pennington, UtiliWorks' Managing Director and Eddy Hernandez, Director of Customer & Information Services for Brownsville Public Utility Board presented at EUCI's 10th Annual Billing for Utilities Conference. The presentation topic was "AMI and Brownsville PUB: Is There a Future or is the Relationship Off?" The event took place January 31- February 1, 2012 in Houston, TX.
UtiliWorks presented, exhibited and participated at the 2011 Harris Customer Conference. The event took place November 15-18, 2011 in Anaheim, CA.
UtiliWorks Managing Director, Dale Pennington presented at the 2011 National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on November 13, 2011. Dale's presentation was on "Electric Vehicles- Fact and Fiction."
UtiliWorks sponsored, exhibited and presented at the Rural Smart Grid Summit with Synaptitude Consulting. The event took place September 19-21, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort in Bonita Springs, Florida.
UtiliWorks sponsored, presented and exhibited at the Municipal Smart Grid Summit with Synaptitude Consulting . The event took place July 25-27, 2011 in Bonita Springs, Florida.
UtiliWorks and the City of Ruston's Utility Director, Darrell Caraway led the workshop presentation on Building a Smart Infrastructure at the 2011 CS WEEK Conference. The discussion took place on May 24th at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center located in Orlando, FL.
UtiliWorks presented a session on factors to consider when planning an AMI/ MDM project at Alameda Municipal Power's headquarters in California. The event which took place on April 27, 2011 was hosted in conjunction with Alameda Municipal Power and Harris Computer Systems. UtiliWorks was invited as an industry expert to discuss how implementing Smart Metering technologies can drive value for utilities and their customers.
UtiliWorks sponsored, exhibited and presented at Spintelligent's Metering America 2011 conference in Dallas, TX from April 18-20. UtiliWorks and Synaptitude Consulting discussed the topic of "Beyond Revenue Protection- Revenue Assurance" on April 20.
UtiliWorks' Managing Director, Dale Pennington, was invited to speak at the Hannover Fair for the "Smart Grid in the USA" forum, in Hannover, Germany. Dale will present on April 5, 2011 as an industry expert to provide German companies with an overview of the US Smart Grid market. The event attracts visitors from over 80 countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. A webcast of the presentation can be found here.
UtiliWorks had two presenters at AWWA's 2011 Customer Service/IMTECH Conference in Dallas, TX on February 28, 2011. Tisha Hayes, Senior Consultant, presented on the topic of AMI Communications. Nicole Pennington, Marketing Coordinator, discussed "A Practical Alternative to the Utility Assessment."
UtiliWorks' Managing Director, Dale Pennington and the City of San Marcos, TX presented on the topic of "Understanding Demand Side Management and the Smart Grid" at Utilimetrics Autovation on Tuesday September 14, 2010.
UtiliWorks had two presenters at Spintelligent's Smart Energy International Conference & Expo in San Jose, Ca September 7-9, 2010. Tisha Hayes, Senior Consultant presented the "Practical Considerations for Communications Backhaul Systems" on September 9. Dale Pennington, UtiliWorks' Managing Director spoke on the topic of Customer Engagement on September 8.
UtiliWorks Consulting was one of the nine featured presenters at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) inaugural Green Business Expo on Wednesday, August 25, 2009.
Dale Pennington, UtiliWorks' Managing Director presented at "The Smart Grid: From Concept to Reality" hosted by The Energy Services Alliance of Manitoba, ESAM. The event took place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada June 10th, 2010.
UtiliWorks presented at Distributech on March 23rd, 2009. The topic was on "Building a Smart Grid- How to Get it Done."
Managing Director, Dale Pennington spoke 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 and Dale Pennington presented March 9th, 2009 on "The Construction of a Smart Grid Program with ARRA Grants."
UtiliWorks presented at Spintelligent's "Smart Energy East Coast," in New York City. UWC spoke about "Meter Data Management" on October 28th, 2009.
UtiliWorks was invited to be a guest participant in the ESMIG initiative in Brussels, Belgium on June 22nd, 2009.
UtiliWorks was a guest speakerat the CS Week Conference held in Washington, D.C. in May, 2009. The topic was "Smart Metering and Getting Past the 20% Benefit Solution" presented by Dale Pennington and Ramona Brown, Project Manager, City of San Marcos. Click here to read the speaking materials.
Dale Pennington, UtiliWorks' Managing Director, presented at the Spinttelligent CIS/Billing America conference in Miami in 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.
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