Sid
Enjoy retirement. We appreciate all that you have done.
Thanks
Rob

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Rob Land

> On Dec 23, 2020, at 8:37 AM, Duggan, Martha A. (via sw-storm-coordinators list) <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com> wrote:
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> Sid – Best wishes as you enter this next chapter!  Thanks for all your help and guidance over the years.
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> Martha
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> From: sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com <sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Sidney Sperry
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 11:38 PM
> To: sw-storm-coordinators@feca.simplelists.com
> Subject: Retiring... but not from Weather Alerts and Updates!
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> Good evening, all.
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> Some of you may know that, after 40 years in the electric cooperative industry, I have announced my retirement from the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, effective January 31, 2021. Derec Janaway, our OAEC Safety & Loss Control Director, will continue to represent the state of Oklahoma at all future Storm Coordinator meeting, whether virtual or in-person.
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> Needless to say, it has been an honor and a privilege for me to have worked with all of your through these many years, be it with Mutual Aid issues, Disaster Response & Recovery situations, or FEMA matters. I respect and admire each and every one of you for your dedication to safety, and in coordinating and enabling Mutual Aid assistance that is crucial to those Cooperatives that have been impacted by severe weather events.
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> Though I will be retiring from the Oklahoma Statewide at the end of January, I will still be operating my weather alerts and ice impact forecasting business through my now 10-year old company, SPIDI Technologies, LLC. Most of you know that I have Licensing Agreements for my “Sperry-Piltz Ice Accumulation Index” (or SPIA Index) with Global Reach Internet Services, of Ames, IA, host of the NationalOutages.com website which features the SPIA Index Forecasts along with several other weather element forecasts (Total Ice, Total Snow & Sleet, Total QPF, Temperature & Apparent Temperature).
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> I also have a Licensing Agreement with the international weather services company, DTN, headquartered in Burnsville, MN. Those contracts are ongoing, and provide subscription services to electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, and several communications companies as well as Emergency Management officials in several states. Most recently, SPIDI Technologies, LLC, began providing ice impact forecasting for the high voltage transmission grid across the Continental United States to officials at the U.S. Department of Energy through a “Situational Awareness & Preparedness” website being developed by a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN.
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> After January 31, 2021, our company will be developing a climate & weather forecasting service to electric and communications utilities that will feature forecast maps for the Continental U.S., as well as individual state maps, similar to those used on the NationalOutages.com website, but with more capabilities and options, including fire weather forecasts. Wildfires have become a major concern in the electric utility industry, and we hope to assist in the preparedness and planning effort by producing maps that are updated hourly with the latest fire weather conditions and forecast fire spread rates. The maps below will give you an idea of some of the website content that we will be making available to utilities on a subscription basis in the not-too-distant future.
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> Again, it has been a privilege for me to work with everyone in this group. Thanks for all that you do for our industry, and for being leaders in safety and mutual aid response.
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> With much respect,
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> Sid Sperry
> President & CEO
> SPIDI Technologies, LLC
> 200 Eastwood Drive
> Guthrie, OK 73044
> Cell: 405-627-7754
> Email(s): SidSperry@gmail.com<mailto:SidSperry@gmail.com>  OR  Sid.Sperry@spidiweather.com<mailto:Sid.Sperry@spidiweather.com>
> Home of the SPIA Index Ice Impact Forecasts
> “At a Glance, In Advance” ice impact forecasts for electric & communications utilities.
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