In the late 1960s the company supplied nuclear reactor systems and fabricated uranium fuel for electric utility companies.

These founders envisioned the creation of a computer utility whose computational power would be as reliable as an electric utility.

This reporting system, initiated by the electric utility industry in 1982, expands and extends the data collection procedures begun by the industry in 1963.

Municipal water supply was introduced in 1894 and an electric utility began operating in 1896.

In the early 1970s, he held appointive regulatory positions in the federal government, and then became general counsel of a major electric utility.