IIRenergy Promotes Product Enhancements for Real-Time Outage Tracking at the 2002 Power Mart Tradeshow

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Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated (IIR: Houston, Texas) is the premier market research authority on public, private and industrial power plants. The company continues to develop critical tools to help power marketer's profit from the wholesale and retail power markets. This year IIR launched enhanced real-time outage tracking from a network of monitoring devices designed to track actual power generation output at the unit level.

IIR's all-new real-time monitoring network capability monitors actual electrical output fluctuations from power plant assets reporting significant decreases or changes in the form of an email alert to its clients. This year, IIR will be demonstrating several new enhancements to its product lines during the 2002 Power Mart show held October 21 through 23 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Visit us at the show, at Booth 845 for more details.

IIR identifies outage dates and duration, individual unit megawatt design, capacity and fuel consumed for over 8,000 units at 2,300 power plants. IIR covers nuclear, coal, natural gas, and hydroelectric plants with generating capacities greater than 20 megawatts.

Our phone-verified service includes the short, unplanned outages caused by mechanical problems, weather or other circumstances. Frequent updates give power traders a competitive edge in anticipating electricity shortfalls and surpluses by utility, NERC region and control area.

Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated is the leading provider of global industrial market research. We specialize in helping companies develop information solutions to maximize their sales and marketing efforts.