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Tantalus provides mission-critical smart grid solutions that include a market-leading edge computing platform, robust software applications and an advanced IoT communications network. Tantalus empowers utilities to access granular data from both legacy meters and cutting-edge two-way intelligent devices to improve customer service, facilitate consumer engagement, realize cost savings and streamline system operations. Its comprehensive suite of smart grid solutions includes advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand-management technologies, data analytics, distribution automation and street lighting control systems. This broad portfolio of solutions is purpose-built to support smart community initiatives essential to both the near-term and long-term success of the utilities Tantalus supports and the communities they serve.

The Tantalus Utility Network – TUNet® – is Smart Grid technology that enables a utility to monitor, control and respond to events anywhere and at any time across its distribution network. It serves as the communications backbone that makes Smart Metering, Power Quality Monitoring, Outage Reporting, Load Control, and Distribution Automation practical and cost-effective. The result is more efficient operations, more accurate billing, and the ability for a utility to deliver a high level of customer service.

Tantalus is a public company founded in 1989 and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GRID. TUNet was launched in 2004. The production version represents over 250 staff years of development and earned several high-profile business & technology awards. TUNet systems are deployed throughout North America at utilities determined to gain more value from their network, manage energy resources wisely, and provide customers with a high level of service.

Thompson Coburn’s utility attorneys understand the forces that are changing the energy supply industries. Our utility partners have decades of combined experience in this highly specialized area of law. They provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary legal services to a variety of suppliers and purchasers, including municipal and cooperative utility systems, municipal joint action agencies, gas systems and local distribution companies, and renewable energy companies.

Our firm represents utility and non-utility parties in formal adjudications before federal and state regulatory commissions and courts, as well as in the various types of informal stakeholder procedures that have become common in organized markets operated by regional transmission organizations.

Our attorneys have analyzed numerous clients’ compliance with electric utility reliability standards that are mandatory and enforceable under the Federal Power Act.  This includes drafting and assisting with the implementation of internal compliance programs, procedures and guidelines designed to ensure ongoing compliance with the new standards; developing and presenting customized training programs related to the standards; assisting clients with preparation for compliance audits; and representing clients in communications with entities responsible for compliance auditing and enforcement.

In addition, attorneys in our Unmanned Aircraft Systems practice can provide counsel to utilities on the expanded use of UAS (or drones) in the industry.

For more than 80 years, Thompson Coburn has provided the high-caliber legal services and counsel our clients demand to achieve their most critical business goals. Throughout our history, we have been guided by our philosophy of giving our clients straightforward, practical and economical solutions to their legal challenges and business demands, no matter how complex. We put this philosophy into practice every day, for every client, whether a multinational corporation or private individual. 

With 380 lawyers and 40 practice areas, we serve clients throughout the United States and abroad. Whether helping with an employment issue, navigating a complex acquisition, or defending a product or service in litigation, we have the knowledge and resources to meet any legal requirement.  Offices: Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Southern Illinois, Washington, D.C. 

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• Bankruptcy and Reorganization
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Utility Financial Solutions is committed to maintaining our leadership role in the utility industry through listening to the needs of our clients, staying current on new developments and incorporating feedback from industry professionals. Their services are structured to help ensure complete client satisfaction and a commitment that our services and recommendations are independent assesments of your utility's financial condition.

Avant has been providing utility management and consulting services to clients nationwide for over thirty years.  Our service offerings include strategic planning, organizational assessments, power supply planning, and cost of service studies.  We manage several municipal power agencies, which has allowed us to build a staff of utility professionals with deep experience across many functional areas.  We pride ourselves on delivering clear, concise communications to clients and facilitating discussions of complex energy issues across a broad array of stakeholders.

COMMONWEALTH is an EC&M magazine 2017 Top 10 Electrical Design Firm serving utilities, independent power producers, government, industry, and some of the world's most prestigious academic, research, and healthcare institutions.  We are committed to influencing and shaping the secure energy future and making a powerful and positive difference in the world.  We do that by achieving project success for our clients and giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

As consultants, Commonwealth knows that each client is unique, and that each project has a different set of challenges to be addressed. Our leadership in the organizations that set industry standards, combined with our extensive technical experience with hundreds of utility standards and procedures, results in the development and delivery of innovative solutions to our clients’ problems.

Commonwealth’s strength is our people.  We hire top talent and foster an environment of continuous learning where they can meet professional goals and deliver increasing value to our clients.  We encourage professional licensure and participation in organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Edison Electric Institute.  We are proud to be 100% employee-owned and -managed.

Commonwealth’s complete package of services for power generation and power delivery facilities includes: owner’s engineering services; program management; electrical systems analyses; planning; mechanical, civil/structural, and electrical engineering; licensing; land acquisition services; drone services; and construction support.

HISTORY

Commonwealth is proud of its deep roots dating back to 1888 as innovators in the electric power industry.  It started with two pioneering brothers from Michigan with an interest in arc lighting and the transmission of electricity generated by hydro power, and eventually became part of the behemoth known as Commonwealth & Southern Corporation.  Commonwealth Associates was reestablished as a employee-owned engineering and consulting firm in 1988.  Thirty years later, Commonwealth's staff of approximately 270 professionals represents one of the most skilled, experienced technical resources available to analyze, plan, design, and construct electrical power projects.

LOCATIONS

Commonwealth services clients conveniently with offices coast-to-coast.  In addition to our Mid-Michigan headquarters, Commonwealth has the following offices: Lancaster (PA); Columbus (OH); Atlanta (GA); Spokane, and Seattle (WA).