Telvent Miner & Miner (TM&M), hosted its 7th annual User Group conference February 19-21, 2008, in Fort Collins, Colorado. A record 330 registrants, representing more than 87 electric, gas, and water utilities from around the world and 28 TM&M business partners, attended demonstrations of ArcFM™ enterprise GIS solutions, case studies of user implementations, and user feedback forums.

Powel, Inc, an industry leader in providing field operations software applications to utilities worldwide, awarded Delaware Electric Cooperative the 2008 Powel Innovation Award at Powel's Annual Users Group meeting in Chaska, Minnesota, April 21, 2008. Each year, Powel's user community, including users, developers, and utilities, gathers to share information about mobile work management, learn new software functionality and gain exposure to a number of software and hardware partners during the three day meeting. Jesse M. Spampinato, Engineering Supervisor of Delaware Electric Cooperative was there to receive the award.

Centrica Energy (CE), the division responsible for managing all upstream assets within Centrica PLC, the FTSE 100 energy company, has implemented Endur, OpenLink's (www.olf.com) market- leading energy trading and risk management (ETRM) system in a delivery partnership with The Structure Group. CE will use Endur to manage traditional front, middle and back-office functions for complex power and gas contracts, as well as positions in coal, emissions, oil and weather products across its integrated energy operations in the UK and Europe.

At the 2008 SmartSignal Summit in Chicago, SmartSignal Corp., a leader in maximizing worldwide industry equipment performance through predictive technologies and General Physics Corporation, a global provider of sales and technical training, e-learning solutions, management consulting, and engineering services announced today that they have signed an agreement to further enhance business performance for power generation companies by combining the best practices of both organizations.

Wärtsilä has signed an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract with QIT Madagascar Minerals S.A (QMM), part of the Rio Tinto group, for its 23.8 MWe power plant. The power plant is located at the company’s ilmenite mineral sands mine at Fort Dauphin, in south-eastern Madagascar.