Redlands, California-March 17, 2010-As electric and water utility professionals come together this month at the DistribuTECH 2010 Conference & Exhibition, ESRI will share asset and outage management solutions and decision-making tools based on geographic information system (GIS) technology.

The DistribuTECH 2010 Conference & Exhibition is scheduled for March 23-25, 2010, in Tampa, Florida. Visit ESRI at booth number 1733 to see demos and discuss the use of GIS for mapping, asset and outage management, and field crew automation. Electric utilities are invited to join ESRI staff for a presentation on March 24 at 9:30 a.m. on Using GIS to Assess Feeder Vulnerability.

"At ESRI, we are happy to join electric and water utilities for the educational and networking opportunities provided at DistribuTECH," said Bill Meehan, ESRI's director of utility solutions. "We look forward to sharing with utilities the latest GIS solutions for issues such as energy efficiency, engineering, demand response, renewable integration, and power delivery."

For more information, visit www.esri.com/distributech.

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