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Marietta, Georgia Office Volunteers at MUST Ministries
MUST Ministries is a powerful, volunteer-driven organization. The organization focuses on the basic needs of individuals, families, and children through several different programs, such as food, clothing, housing, employment, and more. Our Marietta office had the...
Employee Spotlight – July 2018
Dina Pinnell Project Manager | Manchester, NH Dina Pinnell started at GDS in our Manchester, NH office in June 2011. Prior to GDS, Dina worked for a mechanical contractor in Alaska as a Quality Control Systems Manager overseeing the replacement...
Securing Critical Utility Functions Effectively & Efficiently
As we have seen through recent cyber-attacks, even the most secured cyber systems may be vulnerable to hackers, foreign actors, or other persons with malicious intent. In 2016, a major attack occurred using devices that were part of the Internet of Things (IOT), to...
TAX CUTS & JOBS ACT 2017 IMPACTS FORMULA AND STATED RATES
On December 22, 2017, the President of the United States signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), which significantly overhauled the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The ink on the President’s signature had barely dried on the TCJA before consumer...
TransActions February/March 2018
DOWNLOAD PDF Tax Cuts & Jobs act 2017 Impacts Formula and Stated Rates On December 22, 2017, the President of the United States signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), which significantly overhauled the Internal Revenue Code of 1986....
TransActions July/August 2017
DOWNLOAD PDF What's Trending New trends can emerge, current trends can change subtly or abruptly, going in different directions than what was originally anticipated when key decisions were made. These changing and emerging trends add to the challenge of...
What’s Trending
Natural Gas Trends In a 2015 GDS TransActions article, it was noted the U.S. was transitioning from being a modest importer of natural gas to becoming a significant exporter. The driver behind this trend was expected to be shale gas supported liquefied natural gas...
The Electricity Use Flatline
Why American Households are Consuming Less Energy In the 80s and 90s, electricity usage in the United States grew at roughly 2.5% per year. Seemingly, as if on cue with the new millennium, a shift occurred in the early 2000s. From 2000 to 2007, total electricity usage...
Employee Spotlight – February 2017
Patrick Brin SENIOR PROJECT CONSULTANT | ORLANDO, FL Patrick Brin was hired in January of 2013 as a Senior Project Consultant in the Orlando office. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Central...
TransActions January/February 2017
DOWNLOAD PDF Efficiency Moves Upstream The role of energy efficiency in the modern utility industry is very simple. The goal is to incent utility customers to invest in a more efficient product or service than they normally would, something better than the...