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From 1940s Drawings to Real-Time Transmission Visibility
A Case Study in Turning Legacy Records into Faster Decisions and Stronger Field Readiness SUMMARY A large Pacific Northwest utility brought Tamazari in to support a major Transmission GIS modernization initiative focused on one urgent goal: making transmission asset information easier to find, trust, and use. The work transformed decades of legacy transmission line drawings, some dating back to the 1940s, into a standardized digital foundation connected across SAP, Smallworld
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The Plot Twist Nobody Was Ready For: Amazon Just Outbid a Utility for a Mega Solar Project
Why a $1 Million Bid Difference Should Worry Every Energy Leader Utilities Are No longer the Only Serious Buyers of Clean Capacity Puget Sound Energy (PSE), a utility in the Pacific Northwest, bid $82 million for a massive solar-plus-storage project in Oregon. Amazon bid $83 million and won. In an $82–$83 million auction, $1 million can look like noise. It isn’t. It’s proof that the buyer pool has changed, and utilities are bidding against companies with urgent load growth an
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AI Load Growth Has a Secret Upside: Free Heat for Homes
Finland and Sweden are treating thermal waste like a civic resource and it’s quietly rewriting the AI energy story The part of AI’s power demand most people never think about: Heat. When people argue about AI and the grid, the conversation usually stops at megawatts: How much load? How fast? Who pays for upgrades? Important questions, but incomplete. Here’s the missing piece: the electricity that goes into a data center doesn’t disappear. It ends up as heat. That’s why the “d
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A Modular Data Center Strategy Built for Tornado Alley
How Rural Electric Co-ops Deployed 59+ “Mini Data Centers” in 6 Months SUMMARY Between 2010 and 2017, Tamazari personnel helped KAMO Power and its member cooperatives stand up a practical answer to a very modern problem: “How do we run a smarter, more resilient grid without building traditional data centers everywhere?” The team deployed 59+ modular computing facilities across rural Oklahoma and Missouri using a mix of containerized data centers, GFRC prefabricated buildings,
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