AWS for Industries

Don McDonnell

Author: Don McDonnell

Don McDonnell serves as global segment lead utilities for Amazon Web Services partner network. When not helping partners build and grow on AWS, Don volunteers serving on the board of trustees of non-profits BetterGrids.org and Goshen Valley, Georgia’s top-rated foster agency provider.

Accelerating Innovation for a Clean Energy Future

Luminus Launches Energy Monitoring App Using AWS Partner NET2GRID’s Energy Insights

Energy solutions provider Luminus wanted to empower Flemish consumers by providing them access to data collected from their digital meters. By October 2022, two million digital meters were already installed in Flemish households, with a goal to equip 80 percent of Flemish households with digital meters by 2024. The rollout of digital meters in Wallonia […]

How EDF Transformed its Trading Operations on AWS

Blog authored by EDF Customers UK Team: Julie Meanwell, Director of Transformation EDF UK Neville Towers, Director of Wholesale Markets Optimisation EDF UK Mark Askew, Head of Solutions & Architecture EDF UK Karim Alnakkash, Head of Operational Development & Planning EDF UK Mark Teuton, Senior Manager of Business Solutions EDF UK Who are EDF UK? […]

National Information Solutions Cooperative Selects AWS as its Preferred Cloud Provider

National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC), a leading provider of software solutions to utility and broadband providers, has selected AWS as its preferred cloud supplier to support ongoing development of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for customers. NISC will use AWS to expand the capabilities of its current offerings including meter data management while also […]

GE_AWSishow_June2021

AWS is How: GE Renewable Energy Increases Wind Energy Production

Historians have traced our practice of using the wind to power machines all the way back to first-century Alexandria. Since then, windmills have been helping people all over the world to get work done—from grinding corn and flour to pumping water. And we’ve been using wind turbines for generating electricity for over 130 years. Just […]

AWS re:Invent 2020 – Power and Utilities Industry Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing up to be our biggest yet and we have an exciting program planned for the Power & Utilities industry with five keynotes, 18 […]

Now available: Explore the new AWS Power and Utilities decarbonization interactive guide

At the AWS Power and Utilities customer user meeting during AWS re:Invent 2019, customers asked us for additional informational resources in their self-identified priority areas of security and sustainability. In response to this request and available now, the AWS Power and Utilities team launched an interactive guide in partnership with Wood Mackenzie: How Cloud Enables […]

Power & Utility Executives: Visit with AWS at DistribuTECH 2020

Meet the AWS Power & Utilities team in San Antonio from January 28th-30th at DistribuTECH, the utility industry’s leading annual transmission and distribution event drawing over 14,000 attendees from over 80 countries. With the emergence of renewable sources and the digitization, decentralization, and consumerization of energy, AWS provides the tools for power and utility companies […]