utilities

utilities

Oracle's Utilities Centre: Prepare for wow

From IBM, Siemens and Accenture to Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft, the giant IT, integration and technology firms are making bids for dominance in the smart grid’s future. That means targeting utilities, and all of these companies do just that … but only one that we can see has succeeded so

utilities

What makes a utility go 'smart'?

Why would any utility provider undertake the massive expense to upgrade its customer base to smart meters and spend further millions — if not more — on infrastructure improvements that are designed to reduce, not increase, energy consumption? Wouldn’t that seem counter-intuitive for an industry dependent on selling energy? On the