ENERGIZE!

Power from behind the scenes

​“The execution was just phenomenal,” is not something you hear every day about an implementation. Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) started their deployment project from an urgent need, and is now happy to tell their story on how great cooperation can lead into solving highly important business needs - after all, success like this is always built from a combination of things.

​PEC is the largest electric distribution cooperative in the USA, delivering electric power to more than 300,000 meters in Texas. Located in one of the fastest growing areas in the U.S., PEC operates on an 8,100-square-mile service area consisting of all or parts of 24 Central Texas counties, and provides safe, reliable and low-cost energy services to its members. Founded in 1938, PEC headquarters is based in Johnson City, Texas, where I was lucky to get to meet Lawanda Parnell, Chief Information Officer, and Paul Lochte, Interim Vice President of Engineering, for the interview.

​“This has probably been one of the smoothest implementations I've ever been a part of.”
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When I heard the news about the one-year implementation project completed in 4 months, I really wanted to interview the people who made it happen. And when I did - boy it turns out they make a whole lot happen on a regular basis - Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) is just one great example!

Any software development, including electricity network optimization, gets to a whole new level when the vendor and the customer work in co-operation. Helen Electricity Network Ltd (Helen) has developed optimization with us – for example, with Eero Saarijärvi in particular – since the beginning of its times.