DSTi’s Business Efficiency Solutions allows you to build in and customise your own business processes into the system and drive it across the organisation through effective work management.

Johannesburg, South Africa – DST International South Africa (DSTi SA) – the leader in the development and implementation of smart software solutions, specifically focussed on Asset Management, Business Process Management, Utility Billing and Document Management, today announced that it has further expanded its product suite offering to the sub-Saharan and South African markets to include HiAffinity – a comprehensive range of software solutions for utility service providers.

[img:american-flag-2a.thumbnail.jpg| ]Washington, DC, U.S.A. --- (METERING.COM) --- December 31, 2007 - The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that was signed into law by U.S. President George Bush just before Christmas supports the modernization of the nation's electricity transmission and distribution system in the form of a smart grid and the deployment of “smart” metering and other technologies.

[img:Logo_CityPGeorge.thumbnail.gif| ]Prince George, BC, Canada --- (METERING.COM) --- December 27, 2007 - Water meters will be compulsory for new dwellings developed in the City of Prince George effective January 1, 2008, the City government has decided.

According to the City, providing homes in new subdivisions with meters and water-conservation devices means extending the life of existing water facilities and delaying future costs for improvements.

[img:argentina.thumbnail.jpg|Cristina Fernández
at the launch
of the new
energy plan]Buenos Aires, Argentina --- (METERING.COM) --- December 27, 2007- Energy efficiency and the rational use of energy are the cornerstones of a new energy plan announced by the Argentine government.

The PRONUREE (Programa de Uso Racional y Eficiente de la Energía) program, launched by Argentina’s president Cristina Fernández on December 21 and expected to be legislated this week, was designated a national priority, with all sectors of society called upon to be more rational and efficient in their use of energy in order to add competitive quality to the country’s economy and therefore to provide benefit to all.

[img:NNEC%20%282%29_0.gif| ]New York, NY, U.S.A. --- (METERING.COM) --- December 21, 2007 - While 39 of the 50 states in the U.S. have adopted statewide net metering programs, enabling compensation for consumers who own grid-tied renewable energy systems, the majority are failing to provide easy access to the electrical grid for these systems and only four states are doing their best to assure that the owners of such systems earn credit for power fed into the grid.

[img:CUC_0.jpg| ]Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands --- (METERING.COM) --- December 21, 2007 - A new operating agreement between the Cayman Islands’ Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd (CUC) and the territory’s government will lead to average residential consumer rate reductions in excess of 15 percent and the establishment of an electricity regulator.

The agreement covers new 20 year licenses for the CUC for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Grand Cayman. The terms include competition for future generating capacity and general promotion of the use of renewable sources of energy.