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2011 Award Winners

CS Week together with Electric Light & Power magazine are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Expanding Excellence Awards during CS Week 2011 in Orlando, FL.

Best CIS Implementation

   

Level I Class

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El Paso Electric needed a new CIS to address pending regulatory requirements. The ‘Genesis Project’ not only established a modern foundation for customer care operations, but allowed EPE to address two major rate changes within four months of go-live. Significant improvements in customer care include payment options, budget billing and auto draft.

Level II Class

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Saint Paul Regional Water District needed a new CIS to serve the city plus eight surrounding communities. The system selected was designed for ease of navigation and use, making training and user adoption faster and easier. A trainer on-site during changeover facilitated error recovery and reinforced end user training. SPRWD customers now enjoy online payment options and access to account information.

   
Best Smart Infrastructure Project
 

Level I Class

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SCE created Edison Smart Connect in 2007 to implement AMI for residences and small businesses over five years. Cash Stage 2 gave SCE interval billing capability but required a change of all business processes to support deployment of the devices – all while installing 8000-15,000 meters daily. SCE estimates a 1000 megawatt reduction in overall peak consumption and cost recovery by rate payers within 20 years.

 

Level II Class

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London Hydro worked with all Ontario local distribution companies to leverage their collective buying power in preparation for smart meter implementation. Executed over two years, the complex project involved a cross section of engineering, ops, metering shop and customer services employees plus external contractors for meter installation, antenna towers and radio deployment. Gross savings of $1 million annually will flow to consumers.

 

Innovation in Customer Service

 

Level I Class

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Northeast Utilities was the first utility to implement advanced process management via deep transactional analysis to measure how well the person-machine interface supported business processes. Customer contact employees benefitted from immediate technology-driven improvement. The system allowed NUS to drive consumer-based technology solutions to improve efficiency 22%.

Level II Class

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Customer service already had a wish list when Las Vegas Water suddenly had 60 days to

implement a new online bill payment application. CS and  IT strategized to ensure compatibility with an outbound dialer project already underway. Savings in the cost of processing payments was critical to success as self-service website options generated a 31 percent increase in automatic transfers and a 14 percent drop in face-to-face payments.

 

 
 
 
 

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