Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Selects NewEnergy RetailOffice to Manage Retail Project.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 NewEnergy Associates, pioneer in software and consulting for the energy industry, announced today that customer-owned electric cooperative Southern Maryland Southern Maryland in popular usage is composed of the state's southernmost counties on the "Western Shore." This region includes all of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties and southern portions of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties. Electric Cooperative (SMECO SMECO Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (MD, USA) ) has selected eBusiness retail software solution NewEnergy RetailOffice(TM) to manage its Integrated Load Profiling, Settlement, and Customer Enrollment Project. NewEnergy RetailOffice is proving extremely popular among energy providers and wire companies both in deregulated markets and those scheduled to deregulate deregulate To reduce or eliminate control. One of the major forces in the financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s was the federal government's decision to deregulate interest rates. in the near future - SMECO is the latest in a series of leading energy industry players to select this product since its release earlier this year. Serving over 115,000 customers in four Southern Maryland counties, SMECO has been providing power to residential and business customers for over 60 years. The Cooperative will be using NewEnergy RetailOffice to meet its load profiling, scheduling and settlement requirements when its territory opens for electric choice the first of next year. Using state-of-the-art Internet-based technology Refers to the communications infrastructure of the Internet, which is based on the IP protocol. IP is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It may also refer to voice over IP (VoIP), which uses the Internet to make telephone calls. See VoIP, IP and TCP/IP. , RetailOffice will give SMECO the secure and efficient platform it needs to manage the significant volume of information associated with retail choice operations. "We chose NewEnergy Associates based on their working installations and good references," said Eugene Bradford Eugene Bradford is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. He was played by John de Lancie from 1981 to 1985, 1986 and again in 1989. Also known as Gene, he went by the alias, Bettina Lovelorn , Rates and Economic Studies Director of SMECO. "We are confident that NewEnergy's retail implementation expertise will position us for success with our upcoming roll-out of customer choice." "Our vision was to create a software solution that met the technological expectations of an industry on the move," commented Vice-President of NewEnergy Retail Solutions, Charles Adkins Charles Adkins (February 7, 1863 - March 31, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio, near Mount Sterling, Adkins attended the common schools. He taught school for several years. . "With NewEnergy RetailOffice we gave the industry the opportunity to manage their entire retail business from their Internet browser See Web browser. !" New Energy Associates is a leading provider of decision support and operational management software and consulting services to the energy industry. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, NewEnergy has specialized in the development and support of integrated, state-of-the-art business applications and consulting services for 25 years. NewEnergy currently supports over 400 software installations at more than 190 national and international electric and natural gas energy companies. |
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