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How Utility Fleets Can Cut Equipment Loss With Mesh Beacon Tracking.
Make your fleet part of the search party. The Hidden Tax in Utility Operations is Still “Where is it?” Ask any utility fleet or field leader what slows work down, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: parts, permitting, staffing, weather. Then the honest answer shows up in the gaps between those words. It’s the scavenger hunt. Here's what that looks like on a daily basis: A crew rolls to a job and the right tool is not on the truck. A portable generator is “somewhere in the yar
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The “Plug-In Solar” Moment Is Here, and One Safety Standard Is About to Make It Mainstream.
UL 3700 is the behind-the-scenes rulebook that turns balcony solar from a risky gray area into a scalable, utility-friendly product. Why can you plug in a space heater, but not a solar panel? Balcony solar sounds like a simple “hang it, plug it in, save money” idea. The truth is more complex. This article uncovers why UL 3700 can turn plug-in solar from a clever hack into a trusted mass-market product. But first, here are a few key definitions that matter to understand what's
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A 555°F Geothermal Well in Utah Could Make 24/7 Clean Power Real.
Hotter rock, faster drilling, and a clearer path to always-on clean energy. Geothermal Just Dropped a Stat Grid Planners Can’t Ignore Every once in a while, a single number cuts through the noise and forces the grid conversation to get real. That just happened in Utah. Fervo says it confirmed a geothermal resource above 555°F, and it drilled the appraisal well in under 11 days.[1] On the surface, that sounds like an impressive engineering milestone. In practice, it’s a potent
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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
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Google’s Grid Warning: Why Transmission Is the Real Threat to U.S. Grid Reliability.
AI data centers are exposing the quiet bottleneck utilities can’t outrun: the wires, the queues, and the legacy systems behind them. Transmission Explained: The Grid’s Highways Most people talk about the grid like it’s one thing. It isn’t. It’s three big layers that do three different jobs. Generation is where electricity is made (power plants, wind, solar, batteries). Transmission is how that electricity moves long distances (the high-voltage “backbone”). And lastly, distrib
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From Data Chaos to Grid Clarity: GIS Load Forecasting for Distribution System Planning at Scale.
How 9+ Utilities Used LoadSEER to Pinpoint Load Hotspots and Plan Upgrades Ahead of Electrification. SUMMARY Utilities can’t modernize what they can’t see. Tamazari led project management for a multi-utility implementation program of LoadSEER, a spatial load forecasting platform from Integral Analytics. This tool helps planners predict where electric demand will grow and by how much. Across 9+ major utilities, we converted complex data environments into actionable, map-based
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Why “Just Build More Fiber” Is The AI-Era Myth.
How a utility-grade Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) backbone delivered 99.9995% reliability without waiting on new fiber builds. SUMMARY When your communications network hiccups, the grid doesn’t just “slow down”—operators lose visibility, automation gets compromised, and storm response becomes harder right when the public needs utilities most. To increase bandwidth and resilience without the cost and lead time of building new fiber, KAMO Power and Tacoma Public Utili
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When Customer Billing Can’t Keep Up, Clean Energy Can’t Scale.
Turning Complex Billing Into a Foundation for Energy Transition. SUMMARY As utilities navigate the energy transition, billing systems have become a critical—but often underestimated—lever for change. A major PNW utility partnered with Tamazari to modernize its complex billing capabilities, enabling time-varying rates, distributed energy resources (DERs), EV programs, and community solar initiatives. What began as a technical necessity evolved into a transformation of how the
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Inside a $40M+ Utility Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Transformation.
How a Major PNW Utility Rebuilt Its Financial Backbone. OVERVIEW A major PNW utility took on a massive challenge: modernize a 20-year-old SAP ERP financial system while keeping the business running—and do it in time to meet FERC reporting requirements. That meant reworking core SAP Financial and Controlling modules, rolling out an enterprise-wide budgeting, planning, and consolidation platform (SAP BPC), and updating key integrations with PowerPlan and Trintech. Over four yea
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