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In the News:
United Services GroupSM Announces the Release Version 2.3.0 of ADELINE®
Elk River, Minnesota, April 3, 2008 - United Services Group, the creators of ADELINE recently announced that it has released a new version of its automated staking solution for electric utilities. [more]
Midwest ESRI Utility Users Group date and agenda set.
Visit the MWEUUG site to find out more details.
ADELINE and United Services Group at Booth #629 for NWPPA Engineering and Operations Conference
ADELINE and United Services Group at Booth #958 for IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition
ADELINE and United Services Group at Booth #1135 for TechAdvantage®
United Services GroupSM Testing recloser controllers and protection relays - 5/29/2007
Elk River, Minnesota, May 29, 2006 - United Services Group and its unique relationship with Cooper has allowed us to become the only recloser controller tester to have our testing methods approved by Cooper Power Systems. [more]
United Services GroupSM Announces its Data Transfer Tools for ADELINE®
Elk River, Minnesota, May 16, 2006 - United Services GroupSM, the creators of ADELINE® announced today that it has released .its Data Transfer Tools plug-in for its automated staking solution. . . [more]
2006 NCREC presentations available for download here
United Services Group Selected to provide presentation at NWPPA - 3/10/06.
John Setala - Managing Principal of United Services Group will be giving a presentation at this years NWPPA Engineering and Operations Conference. John's presentation will be during the Product Showcase Session 1 between 10 - 10:20 a.m. and will focus on the Wild Blue Satellite Communications System.
United Services Group Releases Version 2.0 of ADELINE - 2/15/06
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Mid West ESRI Utilities Users Group 2006 Announced. 2/06/2006
The Mid West ESRI Utilities Users Group Committee has set March 30 and 31 as the dates for the next annual users group. For more information please check out the MWEUUG web page.
ADELINE and United Services Group at NWPPA Engineering and Operations Conference
ADELINE and United Services Group at Booth #3415 for IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition
ADELINE and United Services
Group at Booth #748 for
TechAdvantage®
Two of USG staff to provide conference presentations 1/2/06
For the third consecutive year employees of United Services Group have been selected to present at the Tech Advantage Conference. This year in Orlando Florida John Setala, Managing Principle and Michael O'Neill SCADA Automation Specialist have been selected.
John's contribution to the conference is:
Thursday, Feb 16th 3:55- 5:00
EO-4C – Computerized Line Design Tools
Co-op employees who design distribution lines can benefit tremendously from
software engineering tools to streamline many of the calculations needed in
the design of new distribution lines. The number of vendors offering
computerized line design software has increased significantly in the last few
years, including software offered by the Cooperative Research Network. This
session will provide information on the software packages currently available,
and with a panel discussion by cooperatives that are using the software
and Michael O'Neill's contribution to the conference is:
Saturday, February 18th 9:40 a.m. - 10:10a.m.
Using Wild Blue for Substation Automation
The largest challenge facing rural cooperatives wanting to implement some
type of substation automation is the communication infrastructure to transfer
information to and from the substation from a central location. Utilizing Wild
Blue technology, we will go through a case study of automating a rural
Minnesota substation. We will identify the costs involved, costs avoided by
removing the leased lines, technical challenges with equipment, and a
historical look (5 months of usage by TechAdvantage 2006) at the performance
of the system.
19 Electric Utilities attend United Services Group's GIS Day 2005. 8/29/2005
Individuals representing 19 Electric Utilities throughout Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa met in Elk River, Minnesota for USG's GIS Day 2005. This single day event was presented by United Services Group at the Great River Energy headquarters as an opportunity for GIS professionals to meet and share ideas. Representatives of ESRI and Origin GeoSystems were also in attendance to display and give presentations about their respective software. A compilation of topics and some associated presentations can be found here.
United Services Group announced today that it has set the date for GIS Day 2005. USG set August 25th, 2005 for the day long event with topics related to starting, maintaining, and using your GIS system. USG has also scheduled an ESRI Electric Users Group meeting for August 24th, 2005 to determine if a regional users group is something that is needed in this area. A complete brochure is available for download in PDF format with complete topic and session information.
For the third consecutive year, United Services Group (USG) has received recognition awards from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), The GIS Software Leader. Click here to read more.
USG releases ADELINE® plug-in for ArcGIS at Tech Advantage 2005.
United Services Group (USG) announced today at the Tech Advantage 2005 Conference the release of its ADELINE® Plug-In for ArcGIS. Click here to read more.
United Services Group announced today that they were releasing two of the papers that are most requested by its customers. Automatic Vehicle Location Services for Minnesota's Electric Utility Industry and Going Mobile (an excerpt from USG's 2004 GITA Presentation.) You will need a pdf viewer to access these files.
United Services Group announced today that they were selected to receive a “New Partner of the Year” award at the ESRI® Annual Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, California.
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USG releases ADELINE® trial versions at TechAdvantage® 2004. 2/17/04
Unite Services Group would like to thank TechAdvantage and all of those who attended TechAdvantage 2004 in New Orleans...
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USG is pleased to announce our newest product "ADELINE®" is now available.
For more information on Staking Application and its automated staking capabilities please visit the ADELINE page.
United Services Group is hosting two seminars to be put on by the Cooperative Research Network (CRN). Both seminars are to be held at the Great River Energy Headquarters Building in Elk River, Minnesota.
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USG hosted a two day class entitled “Getting More Out of your GIS” on December 10th and 11th, 2003. The class was offered to its members to help them use their GIS systems more efficiently. The class covered areas in both the use of Microsoft Access and using a personal geodatabase (such as ESRI’s ArcMap) and was intended to encompass several levels of knowledge and learning.
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Elk River,
Minnesota, August 11, 2003 United Services Group, Elk River, Minnesota,
announced that McLeod Cooperative Power Association in Glencoe, Minnesota has
chosen United Services Group to convert their existing AutoCAD mapping system
to ESRI ArcGIS solutions.
McLeod Cooperative Power Association is a member-owned electric distribution
cooperative that provides electricity to more than 6,000 residents, businesses
and industries in central Minnesota primarily in McLeod, Renville, Sibley and
Carver Counties.
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Elk River, Minnesota, July 15, 2003 - United Services Group (USG), Elk River, Minnesota, announced today that they have successfully tied the Barron Electric Cooperative, ESRI GIS system to the Hunt Technologies’ Turtle® automated meter reading System. This tie enables the Cooperative to easily see which members on their distribution system are out of power through their mapping system.
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United Services Group developed an application for electric utilities to assist them with the design of electric distribution lines, "ADELINE." A product the industry refers to as a Staking Sheet Program and is intended to be used in the field. This staking sheet program, and additional GIS tools were developed primarily for electric cooperatives and municipals. These tools are designed to enhance our customers GIS systems and are designed data model independent.
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United Services Group announced today that they
have been selected to receive a “Special Achievement in GIS Award” at the 23rd
Annual ESRI Users Conference.
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to read the rest of the article.
Wisconsin Municipals Choose United Services GroupSM for Their CableCAD to ESRI Conversion. 5/29/03
United Services Group,
announced today that the City of River Falls and the Marshfield Electric and
Water Department in Wisconsin have chosen United Services Group to convert
their existing CableCAD GIS systems to ESRI ArcGIS solutions.
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to read the rest of the article.
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Redlands, California--United Services Group (USG), a business services unit of Great River Energy, has selected ESRI software for providing automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM) geographic information system (GIS) services to its member cooperatives. Great River Energy is a generation and transmission cooperative based in Elk River, Minnesota. USG is adding GIS to the engineering and substation design services it has been providing to Great River Energy's 29 distribution cooperatives as well as other electric utilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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