Truckee Donner Receives GITA’s Excellence Award

San Antonio, Texas, March 5, 2007—The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) announced today that Truckee Donner Public Utility District (TDPUD), Truckee, Calif., was named the recipient of the 2007 GITA Excellence Award for the electric sector. The award recognizes the dedication, insight, and high degree of initiative in the outstanding application of geospatial technology. The award was presented during the Opening Session of GITA’s Annual Conference 30, being held March 4-7, 2007, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Since the TDPUD’s geographic information system inception in 2000, the system has been built to include:

1. A GIS electric design system fully integrated with its ABS.
2. A GIS OMS fully integrated with its CIS and outsource call center.
3. Integration to electrical modeling software.
4. Integration to AMR software.
5. A National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Award-winning field software that integrates bi-directionally via wireless technology.

TDPUD’s most unique trait is its GIS-centric OMS application, fully integrated in real-time with an outsourced call center. The district has the ability to take calls internally and have overflow calls go to Minnesota; amalgamating all calls within its OMS real time.

“Our success in implementing a fully integrated, GIS-centric enterprise system is a testament to both the technical drive of small utilities like ourselves, and the software vendor’s delivery of open, configurable products. The Excellence in GIS award proves small utilities can succeed in the implementation of GIS,” Ian Fitzgerald, GIS coordinator, TDPUD.

For more information about GITA’s Awards Program, visit http://gita.org/about-gita/awards_program/index.asp, call 303-337-0513, or e-mail info@gita.org.

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About GITA:

The mission of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) is to provide excellence in education, information exchange and applied research on the use and benefits of geospatial information and technology in business, utility and government applications worldwide. GITA’s Annual Conference 30 will be held March 4-7, 2007, in San Antonio, Texas. Visit GITA on the Web at www.gita.org.