I am in North Texas as well. Access to smart meter data is available at http://www.smartmetertexas.com/. It provides monthly, daily and incremental reports (every 15 minutes IIRC), and I've found it to be quite useful in tracking which devices use more energy.

On the corporate side, Win7 has much better capability for updating drivers and patching images offline. With 7 I no longer need to manage a million different images for specific configurations, and I don't have to jump through hoops just to get the right drivers injected for a specific model machine.

Despite the prevailing geek attitude here on Slashdot, Win7 offers better security out of the box, and much improved UAC settings. This will allow us to give users more control over their machines while still allowing for increased security.

Win7 is much more centrally manageable, there are lots more tweakable settings that we can implement via GPO. Group Policy Preferences and item-level targeting are both very cool.

I'd come up with more but I'm in the midst of finalizing our Win7 image for deployment. :)