Web-based Services challenge Infrastructure Ownership

Increasingly businesses are looking to the web to source IT service and infrastructure alternatives.  Nothing indicates this more clearly than Amazon’s change of venue announcement for their annual Web Services conference last month.  The company had to move its...

Club $80,000 power saving an ‘unexpected bonus’

When Steve Andrew first contracted Total Utilities Management Group to manage his electricity contract renewal he wanted to access cheaper power pricing.  He didn’t expect an $80,000 pay-back from two electricity companies – that was an ‘unexpected bonus’ according to...

New Power Policy – Talk is Cheap

When you’re in opposition talk is cheap.  Last week’s announcement by the Labour/Green combo David Shearer and Russel Norman does beg the question why the previous Labour Government didn’t take this course of action when they were in office for nine years....

Major Power Factor Charge increases for Vector customers

Larger Time Of Use (TOU) Vector customers with an existing reactive load problem could get caught on the hop by new electricity charges due to come on line next month.  This cost increase will also impact on the electricity retailer’s medium-sized and small business...