Best Newcomer of the Year: Woodlands Solutions
Energy Risk Awards 2012
The Texas-based company was founded in 2008 on the idea that the existing ETRM systems were too expensive, complex to install and difficult to manage, says Michael Muse, president of Woodlands Solutions. “We wanted to create something that would provide the functionality of the major ETRM vendor systems but at a much lower cost.”
This is something its customers believe it has achieved. “[Woodlands’] solution contains the functionality of the major ETRM providers without the major provider price
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