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The Technology of the Smart Grid

1st Edition - September 2008


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Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................6

Introduction ...........................................................................................................9

Overview of the Smart Grid.................................................................................10 Why is the Smart Grid Needed?.................................................................................10 What is the Smart Grid? .............................................................................................12

Key Smart Grid Technologies .............................................................................14 Smart Meters..............................................................................................................15 Two-way Communication Networks ...........................................................................16 Meter Data Management Systems.............................................................................18 Energy Management and Control Technology...........................................................19 Distribution/Substation Automation Technology.........................................................20 Technology Alliances .................................................................................................21

Smart Meter Vendors..........................................................................................22 Actaris ........................................................................................................................22 Echelon ......................................................................................................................24 Elster Electricity..........................................................................................................27 GE Energy..................................................................................................................30 Itron ............................................................................................................................31 Landis+Gyr .................................................................................................................34 Silver Spring Networks ...............................................................................................36 SmartSynch................................................................................................................39

Two-way Communication Network Vendors .......................................................41 Aclara .........................................................................................................................41 Ambient ......................................................................................................................44 Arcadian Networks .....................................................................................................46 Cellnet+Hunt...............................................................................................................48 Comverge...................................................................................................................50 Current Group ............................................................................................................52 Elster Integrated Solutions .........................................................................................53 Eka Systems ..............................................................................................................55 MainNet Communications ..........................................................................................57 PowerGrid Communications.......................................................................................59



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Sensus Metering Systems..........................................................................................61 Tantalus......................................................................................................................64 Trilliant Networks........................................................................................................66

Meter Data Management System Vendors .........................................................68 Aclara Software ..........................................................................................................68 Ecologic Analytics ......................................................................................................70 eMeter ........................................................................................................................72 Energy ICT .................................................................................................................74 Görlitz AG...................................................................................................................76 Itron ............................................................................................................................78

Energy Management and Control Technology Vendors .....................................80 Cannon Technologies ................................................................................................80 Comverge...................................................................................................................83 Cybectec ....................................................................................................................85 Energate.....................................................................................................................86 Greenbox Technology ................................................................................................88 GridAgents .................................................................................................................89 GridPoint ....................................................................................................................91 Honeywell Building Solutions .....................................................................................93 Site Controls...............................................................................................................95 Tendril ........................................................................................................................97

Distribution/Substation Automation Technology Vendors .................................100 ABB ..........................................................................................................................100 Advanced Control Systems ......................................................................................103 AREVA T&D .............................................................................................................105 Augusta Systems .....................................................................................................107 BPL Global ...............................................................................................................109 Comverge.................................................................................................................112 Cannon Technologies ..............................................................................................113 Cooper Power Systems............................................................................................115 ESRI .........................................................................................................................117 GE Energy................................................................................................................118 Intergraph .................................................................................................................121



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NovaTech .................................................................................................................123 Open Systems International .....................................................................................125 RuggedCom .............................................................................................................128 S&C Electric .............................................................................................................129 SensorTran...............................................................................................................131 Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution ...........................................................132 Telvent......................................................................................................................134

Technology Alliances ........................................................................................136 Advanced Grid Infrastructure Initiative .....................................................................136 GridApp Consortium.................................................................................................137 GridWise Alliance .....................................................................................................139 NewEnergy Alliance .................................................................................................141 NextGrid Now Alliance .............................................................................................142 Smart Energy Alliance..............................................................................................143 ZigBee Alliance ........................................................................................................145



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Acronyms and Abbreviations ACM – Advanced Control Method

AGI – Advanced Grid Infrastructure

AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure

AMR – Automatic Meter Reading

AMS – Advanced Meter System

ANSI – American National Standards Institute

APS – Arizona Public Service

BGE – Baltimore Gas and Electric

BPL – Broadband over Powerline

BWP – Burbank Water and Power

C&I – Commercial and Industrial

CDMA – Code Division Multiple Access

CIS – Customer Information System

CMT - Commercial Metering Transponder

DA – Distribution Automation

DCU – Data Collector Unit

DMS – Distribution Management System

DOE – U.S. Department of Energy

DR – Demand Response

DRCC – Demand Response Control Center

DTS – Distributed Temperature Sensing

EBI – Enterprise Buildings Integrator

EEMS – Enterprise Energy Management System

EMCS – Energy Management and Control Systems



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EMT – Electronic Metering Transponder

FCC – Federal Communications Commission

FDIR – Fault Detection, Isolation & Restoration

FPL – Florida Power & Light

GIS – Geographic Information System

GPRS – General Packet Radio Service

GSM – Global System for Mobile Communications

HAN – Home Area Network

HMI – Human Machine Interface

HVAC – Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

IDCV – Intelligent Demand Control Ventilation

IEC – International Electrotechnical Commission

IED – Intelligent Electrical Device

IIDS – Improved Interfaces and Decision Support

ILM – Intelligent Load Management

IP – Internet Protocol

LAN – Local Area Network

MAS – Metering Automation Server

MDM – Meter Data Management

MDMS – Meter Data Management System

MHz – Megahertz

MTU – Meter Transmission Units

NCC – Network Control Computer

NES – Networked Energy Services

NIC – Network Interface Card



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NMS – Network Management System

NOC – Network Operation Center

NTSB – National SCADA Test Bed

OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer

OG&E – Oklahoma Gas and Electric

OMS – Outage Management System

PG&E – Pacific Gas and Electric

PGE – Portland General Electric

PLC – Powerline Carrier or Powerline Communications

PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network

REMS – Residential Energy Management System

RF – Radio Frequency

RNI – Regional Network Interface

RTU – Remote Terminal Unit

SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SLA – Service Level Agreement

SRD – Service Reconnect Device

SSI – System Services Interface

TGB – Tower Gateway Basestation

TMS – Transaction Management System

TOU – Time-of-Use

TREE – Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem

VAR – Value-added Reseller

VEE – Validation, Estimation and Editing

WAN – Wide Area Network



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Introduction The Technology of the Smart Grid is written and published by Research Reports International, Inc. (RRI), an independent market research company that provides analysis on energy industry issues to keep its clients current on trends in a rapidly changing environment. It offers executives, managers, and professionals the up-to-date information that they need to perform their jobs and make business decisions. RRI presents an unbiased viewpoint, which enables it to maintain its reputation for balanced, objective, and dependable information.

Objective RRI’s objective in developing The Technology of the Smart Grid is to provide industry participants with an understanding of who the key technology providers for the Smart Grid are and what products they are offering. Demand for electricity is growing faster than the supply infrastructure. At the same time, the conversion to a digital economy is increasing the demand for high quality power. The need to reduce peak demand and improve power quality requires an enhanced distribution grid which can both heal itself and provide two-way communication between the utility and the end-user. Many companies are working to develop the technology needed to implement this vision of a Smart Grid. A major objective of the report is to provide readers with an understanding of the current efforts underway to develop and implement the technology needed to make the Smart Grid a reality.

Value The report aims to provide the reader with the ability to understand the direction that Smart Grid technology is taking. It provides the information necessary for those interested in implementing a Smart Grid to start thinking about the functionality they need, the products available to provide that functionality, and the vendors that may be able to supply those products. This report will be of interest to electric utilities, energy service providers and aggregators, home/building automation and IT vendors, regulators, and electric industry consultants.

Scope The report provides an overview of what the Smart Grid is and why it is needed. It then focuses in on more than 50 leading companies developing products in the key technology areas of the Smart Grid. These companies are divided by technology and profiles of each are provided. Each profile provides contact information, a company description, an overview of their Smart Grid products, a listing of key Smart Grid alliances they are involved in, and examples of Smart Grid projects which are using their technology.



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Overview of the Smart Grid The Smart Grid, also known as the Intelligent Grid, is the next phase in the evolution of electrical power generation, transmission and distribution. The current grid is straining under outdated technology and increasing demand for high-quality power. There are significantly more electronic devices operating today than just 5 or 10 years ago. All those devices need to be plugged in or charged, and the reliability of the electric grid is counted on to provide the necessary power to operate these devices on demand.

The current grid is based on technology that was invented more than one hundred years ago. Although the grid has been updated since that time, the need for significant change is agreed upon by utilities, the government, and the end-users.

The Smart Grid will come from the application of intelligent energy technology to optimize the use of generation resources and the delivery of power. It will be “self-healing,” meaning that it will depend on sensors and monitoring devices throughout the system that can anticipate disruptions and quickly recover from outages. The Smart Grid will be efficient, making better use of power generation and minimizing the use of peak power generators. And the Smart Grid will use cleaner energy, incorporating renewable energy sources and distributed generation.

The Smart Grid concept implies an automated, computer-driven system with two-way communications to provide real-time information. With that information, the Smart Grid can control the flow of energy so that supply meets demand. One of the key characteristics of the Smart Grid is that when the system gets close to capacity, it can start a pre-planned program to shed load from non-critical appliances and equipment throughout the grid. This automation can occur for energy usage in large industrial settings and even in residential homes. Through an online interface provided by the utility, consumers will be able to view their energy consumption and modify it based on price, which would be higher at times of peak demand.

Some of the concepts and technology for the Smart Grid are already being deployed in the electric grid. In addition, increasing acceptance and demand for adoption of the Smart Grid are fueling new technology development.

Why is the Smart Grid Needed? The current electric grid is more than one hundred years ago. The system has grown and adapted to the increasing demand of a growing country, and overall, has a good record of reliability. However, it still has some major flaws.

When a problem occurs in one area, it can have a “domino effect” on the rest of the grid. A glaring example is the August 14, 2003 blackout that happened in the Northeast United States and Canada. It was the largest blackout in North American history with an estimated 10 million people affected in the province of Ontario and approximately 40 million people in eight U.S. states. Financial losses attributed to the blackout were estimated to be at least $6 billion.

Because of our reliance on electrical systems, blackouts have a far greater impact than the immediate inconvenience of losing electrical power. During the 2003 event, many



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people lost water service, in some areas gasoline was unavailable, food storage and medical care were impacted, computer networks and cyber security were affected, and the electronic security measures at a number of sensitive sites were disrupted. This elevated the blackout to a matter of national security, and provided the impetus for the United States and Canadian governments to act very quickly. One day after the blackout, U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien directed that a joint U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force be established to investigate the causes of the blackout and to determine ways to reduce the risk of such events occurring again in the future.

In April of 2004, the Task Force presented its final report which found that control room operators were unaware that transmission lines had gone down and took no action. The system operator’s analysis tools weren’t performing effectively, preventing them from taking timely action. Reliability coordinators were using outdated data to support real-time monitoring, which limited their ability to detect further problems and take appropriate action. Neighboring system operators lacked joint procedures to coordinate their reactions to transmission problems near their common boundary.

The Blackout, along with the East Coast hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, has stimulated discussions on how to update the grid and make it more efficient, reliable, and secure. These events also triggered new, more stringent regulations, requiring new software, sensors, and systems.

Clearly, a major goal of the Smart Grid is to reduce outages. Power outages cost U.S. business at least $80 billion per year.1 And although outages are a major reason for creating the Smart Grid, there are others, including the capital investment necessary to keep the old system working, and the development of new technologies and business models.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), America’s electric system is aging, inefficient, congested, and incapable of meeting the future energy needs of the Information Economy without changes in operations and investment of significant capital over the next several decades. Uncertainty about the future of the electric industry and increasing levels of risk are raising concerns about the ability of the system to meet future needs. Capital investment in new electric transmission and distribution facilities is at an all-time low and the regulatory framework for the industry is under stress. Deregulation and other efforts to increase competition have resulted in neither lower prices, nor increased reliability.

To keep the current grid functioning, the United States would need to invest close to $500 billion in infrastructure to meet projected growth during the next 20 years. Saving money in this sector is an important component of economic strength. Rising fuel prices are another financial driver, as 20% of electric generation in the United States is supplied by natural gas which is hitting new highs in wellhead prices year after year.

1 Kristina Hamachi-LaCommare and Joe Eto, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers, September 2004



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There is agreement within the industry, as well as across governmental agencies and end-users, that the current electric grid is long outdated and must be modernized. Momentum is growing in the development and adoption of new technologies, and governmental and private funding is increasing as the idea becomes more accepted. Building the Smart Grid as soon as possible will help ensure the reliability of the power grid in the future.

What is the Smart Grid? The current electric grid consists of central generating stations and delivery systems that are operated from control centers. The grid of the future, the Smart Grid, is a fully automated power delivery network that monitors and controls every customer and node, ensuring a two-way flow of electricity and information between the power plant and the appliance, and all points in between. Its distributed intelligence, coupled with broadband communications and automated control systems, enables real-time market transactions and seamless interfaces among all components of the electric network.

The Modern Grid Initiative has developed a vision of the Smart Grid which takes all the components and identifies seven key characteristics of the Smart Grid:

• Self-healing

• Motivates and includes the end user

• Resists attack

• Provides 21st century power quality

• Accommodates generation and energy storage options

• Enable markets

• Optimizes assets and operates efficiently

The Smart Grid will perform continuous self assessments to detect, analyze, respond to, and restore grid components or network sections. The self-healing grid will minimize disruption of service by acquiring data, executing decision-support algorithms, averting or limiting interruptions, dynamically controlling the flow of power, and restoring service quickly. Communications with local and remote devices will help analyze faults, low voltage, poor power quality, overloads and other undesirable system conditions. Then appropriate control actions will be taken based on these analyses.

In the Smart Grid, well-informed consumers will modify consumption based on the balancing of their demands and the electric system’s capability to meet those demands. Demand response (DR) programs will provide customers with the ability to manage their energy costs during peak periods. Over time, DR will also encourage consumers to replace inefficient end use devices such as incandescent lighting.

The Smart Grid will demonstrate resilience to attack, even from those who are determined and well equipped. It will also withstand simultaneous attacks against several parts of the electric system and the possibility of multiple, coordinated attacks over a span of time. A less susceptible and more resilient grid will make it a less desirable target of terrorists.



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The Smart Grid will supply varying grades of power quality at different pricing levels. Additionally, power quality events that originate in the transmission and distribution elements of the electric power system will be minimized and irregularities caused by end-user loads will be buffered to prevent impacting the electric system and other end-users.

The Smart Grid will seamlessly integrate many types of electricity generation and storage systems with a simplified interconnection process. Environmentally-friendly sources such as wind and solar farms will play a major role in the Smart Grid. Enhanced transmission systems will accommodate their remote location.

The Smart Grid will enable more market participation through increased transmission paths, aggregated DR initiatives, and the placement of energy resources within a more reliable distribution system that is closer to the consumer. Consumer response to price increases felt through real time pricing will mitigate demand, driving lower-cost solutions and spurring new technology development.

Asset management and operation of the grid will be fine-tuned to deliver the desired functionality at a minimum cost. Improved load factors and lower system losses are cornerstone aspects of optimizing assets. Additionally, advanced information technologies will provide a vast amount of data and information that will be integrated with existing enterprise-wide systems, significantly enhancing their ability to optimize operations and maintenance processes. As a result, operation & maintenance and capital expenses will be more effectively managed.



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Key Smart Grid Technologies According to the Modern Grid Initiative, there are five technology areas that will be required in order to implement a Smart Grid with the characteristics outlined above. Many of these technologies have already been developed and proven in other industries and now need to be applied to electricity.

• Integrated communications to connect components to an open architecture for real-time information and control, and to allow every part of the grid to communicate in both directions.

• Sensing and measurement technologies to support faster and more accurate response, such as remote monitoring, time-of-use pricing, and demand-side management.

• Advanced components to apply the latest research in superconductivity, fault tolerance, storage, power electronics, and diagnostics.

• Advanced control methods to monitor essential components, enabling rapid diagnosis and precise solutions appropriate to any event.

• Improved interfaces and decision to amplify human decision-making, transforming grid operators and managers into knowledge workers.

Of these five key technology areas, the implementation of integrated communications is required by the other key technologies and essential to the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid cannot exist without an effective integrated communications infrastructure which will create a dynamic, interactive method for real-time information and power exchange, allowing users to interact with various intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in an integrated system sensitive to the various time requirements of the interconnected applications.

Sensing and measurement technologies acquire and transform data into information and enhance multiple aspects of power system management to evaluate equipment health and the integrity of the grid. They will help relieve congestion and reduce emissions by enabling consumer choice and demand response and by supporting new control strategies. New digital communication technologies, combined with advanced digital meters and sensors, will support more complex measurements and more frequent meter reading. They also will facilitate direct interaction between the service provider and the consumer.

Advanced components play an active role in determining the behavior of the grid. They can be applied in either standalone applications or connected together to create complex systems such as microgrids. These components are based on fundamental research and development gains in power electronics, superconductivity, materials, chemistry, and microelectronics.

Advanced control method (ACM) technologies are the devices and algorithms that will analyze, diagnose, and predict conditions in the Smart Grid and take appropriate corrective actions to eliminate, mitigate, and prevent outages and power quality disturbances. These methods will provide control at the transmission, distribution, and consumer levels and will manage both real and reactive power across state boundaries.



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The analysis and diagnostic functions of future ACM will incorporate predetermined expert logic and templates that allow the grid’s software to take corrective action autonomously when these actions fall within allowable permission sets. Significant improvement in grid reliability will result due to this self-healing feature of the Smart Grid.

Improved interfaces and decision support (IIDS) are essential technologies that must be implemented in order for grid operators and managers to have the tools and training they will need to operate a Smart Grid. Animation, color contouring, virtual reality, and other data display techniques will prevent data overload and help operators identify, analyze, and act on emerging problems. In many situations, the time available for operators to make decisions has now shortened from hours to minutes, sometimes even seconds. IIDS will take vast amounts of data and reduce it into the format, timeframe, and technical categories most crucial to system operators.

In addition to these five key technology components, there are other components that will also be needed to make the Smart Grid a reality. Two of these are Smart Meters and Smart Devices. Smart meters are those which can track energy on a real-time (or near real-time) basis. The typical utility meter is a consumption meter in that it measures consumption of the commodity. Smart meters expand on these capabilities by measuring and capturing data such as consumption over a time period, power factor, power quality, individual power phases, spikes, and load shape, among other things. When combined with two-way communications, smart meters can also support remote meter reading, remote throughput limitation, and usage notification. Smart home and building automation devices will communicate with the grid to monitor real-time usage and pricing. These devices will be programmable and can be automated to reduce load in certain circumstances. This function will help utilities reduce peak demand and respond to system emergencies, while at the same time allowing end-users to reduce their energy usage and costs.

Smart Meters The first step considered to be necessary to implementing the Smart Grid is a means to track energy on a real-time (or near real-time) basis. The typical utility meter is a consumption meter in that it measures consumption of electricity. Smart meters expand on these capabilities by measuring and capturing data such as consumption over a time period, power factor, power quality, individual power phases, spikes, and load shape, among other things.

The genesis of smart metering began in the late 1970s with the first trials of automatic meter reading (AMR) systems conducted by AT&T and Westinghouse. At the time, it was determined that the cost exceeded the benefits. The early attempts to commercialize AMR were driven by the development of the microprocessor and electronic registers. However, dependency on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) meant that real-time monitoring was impractical and the cost of backing up storage of data at the meter for periodic transmission was high. This subdued any real commercial progress in AMR until the mid-1980s when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed the use of spread spectrum technologies in unlicensed products. The use of wireless, packet-based technology allowed companies to design and offer both fixed network, handheld, and vehicular systems to read meters automatically.



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With the communications piece figured out, companies then began developing technology to convert existing watt-hour meters into smart meters. Both conversion units and new, solid state meters with advanced capabilities were rolled out. The combination of solid state meters and wireless communications meant that by the 1990s utilities could read meters without a visual inspection. A number of utilities implemented walk by or drive by systems to reduce the cost or meter reading; however, AMR failed to take advantage of the advanced capabilities inherent in the new meters to create new service offerings and add value to existing ones.

This is where smart metering comes in. Smart metering includes the remote reading capabilities of AMR, but also creates and makes use of additional functionality to provide data to the customer, utility, and possibly other parties to help use energy more efficiently. In order for smart metering to be effective, it needs to make data available on a real-time, or continuous, basis.

By combining two-way communications with interval data storage, the meter becomes smart allowing the utility to implement a number of services such as outage detection, remote connect/disconnect, time-based pricing, and on-premise device control.

Two-way Communication Networks After meters, the second most important piece of the Smart Grid is the communications network. This is what allows the meter to transmit the collected data to the utility. Communications is what determines the capabilities of the system. If there is no communications network, the data the meter collects must be gathered manually. The frequency with which the data is collected impacts the type of pricing options which can be offered and what the utility can do with that data. To get the full value of the Smart Grid, frequent, even real-time collection is needed. This requires a two-way, real-time network. There are two main communication technologies used for Smart Grid communications – PLC/BPL and Fixed RF.

PLC/BPL Alternating current (AC) power lines have long been used by a variety of devices to carry information inside a home or business by running radio frequency (RF) energy over the AC wiring. This technology is known as powerline carrier or powerline communications (PLC). PLC has been around for decades and has often been used by utilities to monitor and control the network. In fact, the idea behind PLC originated in the 1920s. At that time, high cost pilot wires were used to detect faults in remote areas. As an alternative, PLC over high voltage lines could be implemented at a lower cost to provide remote network monitoring and control.

In the 1930s, Bell Labs began to investigate the possibility of using PLC to provide telephone service to rural customers. Eventually, Bell Labs developed the M1 Carrier Telephone System; however, noise on the power lines and interference from radio broadcasts hindered the effectiveness of the system. Instead of voice communications, utilities turned their attention to using PLC to support the distribution network. In the mid-1970s, Wisconsin Electric Power developed a PLC system to support load management by remotely reading meters and controlling loads.

While PLC worked fairly well between utility substations, there have been some problems in extending it to the customer. Power lines are very noisy when thought of in



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terms of communications. Dimmer switches, motors turning off and on, and other electrical equipment characteristics all generate interference on the line. Therefore, it has been difficult to achieve high speed, reliable communications over power lines. Transformers, which convert medium voltage to low voltage power, block the RF signals on the power line and can effectively block them. A means of getting the signal successfully through or around the transformer was needed for PLC to become an effective means of allowing utility communication with devices on the customer premise.

The development of high speed digital processors and modulation schemes which take advantage of this processing power has given rise to new PLC systems which can counter line noise and increase performance. This new generation of devices is commonly known as Broadband over Powerline (BPL).

BPL works by managing the noise and attenuation on the power line that would interfere with the data being transmitted. In addition, it bypasses transformers to prevent them from blocking the signal. The equipment used for BPL consists of customer premise equipment which converts the data being sent into a form that can be transmitted over the power line, a transformer bypass device that allows the data being transmitted to successfully cross from the low voltage to the medium voltage network, and a headend at the substation which receives the data and converts it into a format that can be used by the utility.

Utilities were initially attracted to BPL as utility deregulation spread in the mid-1990s and they began looking at how to generate more revenue from their existing assets. The development of the internet and competition in telephone and television in the same timeframe spurred the idea that they could use the distribution network to offer a broadband bundle of services to customers.

In fact, a greater percentage of homes have electric lines, than telephone or cable lines. Utilities believed that they could inexpensively add BPL technology to their networks to provide Telecommunications, television, and high speed internet to customers. While there have been a number of trials of this concept, and even some commercial offerings, BPL as a competitor to the cable and telecom companies has just not panned out.

Therefore, utilities have turned their attention to the value that BPL can add to the utility. By creating a two-way communication link, utilities could significantly improve grid operations and offer value-added energy services to their customers. However, this would require more than just a communications link. It would also require that the distribution grid have a number of monitoring and automation functions – essentially a smart grid.

Fixed RF Fixed RF consists of a permanent wireless infrastructure which typically uses a licensed or unlicensed frequency to collect data from meters and transmit it to a central utility location.

Different network architectures can be used for a fixed RF network - point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and mesh. Point-to-point networks are those where one point communicates with only one other point, such as cellular telephone networks.



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Currently, the most common fixed RF network for the Smart Grid is the point-to-multipoint or star network. In these, each meter sends its data to a central point, the collector. A repeater may be used to collect the data and then forward it to the collector if the meter is too far away for its signal to reach. Collectors transmit the data to a central host system, but may not use RF, if another method is more cost-effective. The transmission from the meter to the collector is usually one-way, but from the collector to the host it is usually two-way.

However, a new type of RF network, mesh, is becoming more popular. In a mesh network, rather than having multiple meters feed a central collector, each meter passes its data to another meter which does the same until a collector is reached. These networks require fewer collection points, as far away meters can pass data to nearer ones until they reach the collector. In addition, since each point can talk to any other point, these networks are self-healing and self-configuring. If one point (i.e., meter) goes down, then any point communicating with that one will simply switch to another point. In addition, new points automatically connect to near points without having to be configured. These factors reduce the cost of setting up and maintaining mesh networks.

Meter Data Management Systems Once the meter data has been captured and transmitted to the host it most be collected, analyzed, and applied to the utility business processes. This set of functions is known as meter data management (MDM). The meter data management system (MDMS) is key to getting value out of the Smart Grid. The MDMS provides a centralized database that feeds downstream systems like customer service, billing, and accounting.

By providing key utility systems with the data that each needs to perform its business function, the MDMS serves as a buffer between changes in the field and changes in business systems. It frames the data in familiar terms for these systems allowing for upstream changes without impacting downstream processes. If downstream changes are desired, the MDMS can be modified to provide the new outputs.

MDMS’ can vary in the capabilities they provide. However, at a minimum, the MDMS must provide a data repository and the functionality necessary to automatically collect data from multiple technologies that are being used for meter reading. In addition, it must be capable of extrapolating from data and creating estimates to replace errors or gaps in data. Finally, it must format the data as necessary for the utility billing systems.

Given the fact that the Smart Grid is generally being implemented to support functions other than just meter reading, the MDMS must also be able to handle non-usage data coming from the meters such as outage notification, meter tampering, and load data.

Since the MDMS receives data on an interval basis, it knows when data stops being received from a meter. It can check the status of the meter against existing service orders to determine if an outage is likely to have occurred and notify the outage management system. Additionally, since the MDMS tracks consumption, it can play an important part in demand response programs serving as the source of historical usage data and validating participation in events.



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Energy Management and Control Technology One of the promises of the Smart Grid is that it will significantly improve customers’ ability to manage their energy consumption by providing more detailed and timely data on electricity usage. However, for customers, particularly large ones, to be able to do something with this data, systems that help manage energy are a necessity.

One way to do so is with an Energy Management and Control System (EMCS). An EMCS is used to help customers monitor conditions and control equipment. These systems are not necessarily connected to every electrical device, but to the largest loads, such as lighting, HVAC, water heating, and water pumps. An EMCS typically consists of sensors and controllers. The sensors measure variables such as energy usage and based on processing logic within the system, the controllers send signals to equipment to guide operation. An EMCS can control the starting and stopping of equipment and manage optimization routines.

AN EMCS also track operational data on equipment performance, environmental conditions, energy use, and energy cost. This allows for remote diagnostics and control of equipment. The EMCS may include the capability to restart equipment in the case of an outage and run equipment without manual intervention.

The most important function of an EMCS is to manage energy costs by ensuring that energy isn’t used unnecessarily. This means only operating HVAC or lighting during periods of occupancy. In addition, the EMCS can interface with Smart Grid-provided pricing data to reduce energy usage when prices are high and shift operations to lower-cost periods. The choice of a DR strategy is limited by the type of equipment and type of controls in a building. If an ECMS is implemented, it can be used to control this equipment and support significant load curtailment.

According to the 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, 7% of commercial buildings, making up 31% of square footage nationwide, have an EMCS. In addition, 70% of all the commercial buildings with an EMCS have 50,000 ft2 or more floor space. Office buildings and educational facilities show the highest use of EMCS’. Day-to-day energy savings potential of an EMCS is estimated to be 10-20% as an EMCS provides ample opportunities for peak load reduction through demand response with its monitoring, control and feedback features.2

Large commercial and industrial customers typically have a number of systems to help manage their energy usage. These include lighting control, building automation, space management, and submetering. Many large customers also have numerous facilities served by multiple utilities, each with its own rate structure. Because of this diversity, these customers have generally managed the energy usage by managing individual systems in separate facilities. However, the ability of the Smart Grid to provide real-time energy usage and pricing data gives these customers the potential to optimize energy savings across the enterprise.

2 LBNL, Advanced Control Technologies And Strategies Linking Demand Response And Energy Efficiency, September 2005



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However, to do so requires a system to manage the data inputs and process algorithms to perform this optimization – the Enterprise Energy Management System (EEMS). An EEMS integrates data from all of the end-user’s other energy management systems allowing end-users to have a single place to optimize the usage of all their assets and manage their electricity costs.

An EEMS captures energy usage to create a baseline of current usage. It also monitors and captures ongoing energy usage to allow companies to compare performance. An EEMS can also remotely control equipment or provide the necessary data to other systems which control equipment to manage operations to balance energy usage and production. An EEMS can help customers manage energy costs by providing an understanding of how energy is used at the submetered equipment level. It can also model usage and forecast costs through a connection to real-time usage and prices.

While customers can manage their own energy usage, new technology is also making it possible for utilities and energy service providers to manage customer energy usage too. Typically, this functionality is used in conjunction with demand response programs and consists of remote-controlled devices which can be activated to shed load with a signal from the utility. This provides even residential customers with the ability to voluntary participate in programs designed to lower their energy costs during price- or load-responsive events.

In order for the Smart Grid to fully reach its potential, intelligence needs to be distributed all the way to the customer premise. This means that it is not enough to just provide customers with real-time pricing and usage information, rather customers must have the capability of responding to this information in an automated manner. To do so requires that smart device controllers be installed in the home or business which can be programmed to respond to price signals.

When direct load control was first implemented in the 1980s, device controllers were basic and “dumb.” New device controllers are intelligent and can be programmed by customers to respond based on preference. These devices can receive software updates over the two-way communication network and can control multiple devices independently.

Some device controllers are being built directly into thermostats to allow for heating or air conditioning control based upon a customer or utility-programmable set of instructions. Many of the new device controllers can be controlled from an internet interface which allows customers to program or monitor them remotely.

These smart thermostats/device controllers allow utilities to modify settings or cycle equipment based on an agreement with the customer. They also can allow or disallow customer override.

Distribution/Substation Automation Technology Distribution automation consists of taking distribution-related functions which must be performed manually and adding electronic controls and intelligence to automate performance of these functions. As an example, distribution automation would allow a utility to automatically isolate a fault and reconfigure the network to work around it. The



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main purpose of distribution automation is to improve power quality and reliability.

There are many different technologies which fall under the banner of distribution automation. Distribution SCADA systems allow utilities to switch distribution circuits remotely and even automatically to limit outages. Automated volt/var control systems are used minimize distribution system losses. Combining these with the Smart Grid will allow utilities to minimize harmonic distortion, stray voltage, imbalance conditions, among other conditions. Automating distribution will allow for easier integration of distributed generation by using real-time data and two way communications to control operations and improve reliability.

With the Smart Grid and distribution automation, distribution systems will be able to receive real-time data from meters and sensors to monitor the state of the distribution network, identify areas of inefficiency, and modify configurations which increase reliability. This capability comes from the ability to monitor the performance of a wide range of distribution assets such as circuit breakers, transformers, capacitors, and reclosers. By monitoring these assets continuously, utilities can develop better maintenance programs reducing both costs and outages.

One of the first areas to begin automating is the substation. For the last several years, utilities have been installing relaying and monitoring systems, in addition to automated reclosers. These substation automation products provide intelligent and remote monitoring and control at the substation level. By networking these components with intelligent device controllers, utilities can provide advanced power management. Substation data, which was previously only available on-site, will be able to be provided to centralized operations for protection engineering and maintenance planning, among others.

Substation SCADA systems are widely used to provide some level or remote monitoring and control today. However, with the Smart Grid will come the ability to integrate them with distribution circuits to perform functions such as automatic fault location and with outage management systems to improve response time.

Technology Alliances Clearly, there are numerous new technologies which are needed for the Smart Grid to become a reality. However, many will never make it to market and even if they do, the market will be fragmented unless standards are created and cooperative efforts are undertaken to perform research, development, and demonstration of these new technologies and how they interact.

This realization has led to the development of a number of industry alliances to bring forward the technology of the Smart Grid. Some of these alliances are focused on developing the architecture of the Smart Grid, while others are focused on developing specific technologies. Finally, some alliances are focused on bringing existing components to market.



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Smart Meter Vendors

Actaris 142 Rue de Stalle 1180 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 333 18 11 Fax: +32 2 376 60 74 Web site: http://www.actaris.com/ Company Overview: Actaris designs and manufactures meters and systems for the electricity, gas, water, and heat markets. Its products and systems are especially tailored to public or private energy and water suppliers, services companies and industrial organizations. Actaris was acquired by Itron in April 2007.

Smart Grid Products: Actaris’ ACE4000 GPRS is a cost-effective solution for residential electricity metering and for any AMR solution. It has as integrated design that is provides flexible, on-site and remote configuration, a full range of meter reading options, and easy field installation that makes operations more efficient.

The ACE4000 type 010 and 020 are multi function polyphase meters that provide cost-effective solutions for residential electricity metering. Both can handle AMR applications and are a major component of Actaris’ ACE CustCom System – an AMR system designed for handling large-scale applications with two-way, PLC or RF fixed network communication.

The ACE5000 type 530 is a 3-phase communicating meter available for direct and for current transformer connections. Its wide range of programmable functions enables operation in traditional electricity distribution applications as well as in the new and quickly evolving deregulation environment. Thanks to its communications capacity, the meter operator can access many meter management services such as AMR, remote connection/disconnection of the customer installation, remote customer or meter survey and diagnostics.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Actaris has a partnership with Vodafone Sweden to provide power companies with a package solution including an electricity meter with a built-in SIM-card which can be read automatically via Vodafone Sweden's mobile network. Vodafone Sweden and Actaris have jointly developed a machine-to-machine communication service that enables power companies to read their electricity meters via Vodafone's GSM network - securely and cost-efficiently. This joint package solution will furnish power companies with a whole new type of meter-reader with inbuilt SIM-card, operation and maintenance of communication systems and a central data system that collects and transfers meter data to the power companies' billing systems.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Actaris has been chosen by ERDF, the distribution subsidiary of Electricité de France, as part of a consortium for their automated meter management project. The consortium, led by systems integrator Atos Origin, will participate in one of the largest pilot projects in Europe that will initially install 300,000 smart meters. Actaris will supply 100,000 PLC smart meters and 3,500 GPRS

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concentrators. This system allows the transmission and receipt of up-to-date information that will help manage energy consumption and will provide better service to the end-users through remote meter reading, billing based on actual consumption, flexible tariff offers and improved network management.



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Echelon 550 Meridian Ave. San Jose, CA 95126 Tel: (408) 938-5200 Fax: (408) 790-3800 Web site: http://www.echelon.com/ Company Overview: Echelon Corporation is a networking company that provides products and systems that can monitor and save energy, lower costs, improve productivity and enhance service, quality, safety and convenience by networking together everyday devices in utility, building, industrial, transportation and home control systems.

Smart Grid Products: With its open, bidirectional, and extensible infrastructure, Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) system enables a comprehensive range of utility applications. The NES system provides a state-of-the-art, future-proof smart metering system that brings new features and benefits to every aspect of a utility’s operations - from metering and customer services to distribution operations and value-added business.

The NES system includes intelligent, communicating digital electricity meters, powerful IP-connected data concentrators, and system software for both the IEC and ANSI markets. The NES system is designed to let the utility use a variety of communications media within the system to minimize cost and complexity, and maximize reliability and security. At the core are data concentrators, which provide the connectivity infrastructure between meters at customer sites and the NES System Software at the utility's central office.

Data concentrators connect to the secondary side of a distribution transformer and securely communicate with and supervise meters attached to the secondary side of a given transformer. They can be installed adjacent to or collocated with one of the meters at a customer site or collocated with the transformer itself, which may be on utility poles, in underground substations, or in above-ground enclosures. Data concentrators communicate with meters over the low-voltage power line network. Communication between data concentrators and the NES System Software occurs over any IP-enabled wide area network (WAN). The data concentrators can use any convenient WAN technology—such as GPRS, CDMA, GSM, PSTN, and broadband.

The hybrid RF/PLC/IP architecture of the NES system cost-effectively serves a variety of geographic terrains—from densely populated urban and suburban areas to thinly populated, distant rural locations—while retaining all of its functionality.

NES provides a complete, always-on, two-way network, each meter is remotely accessible at any time for both data reading and, with proper authorization, remote configuration and control. NES meters offer a number of features and benefits, including:

• Support for multiple tariffs, which automatically adapt for holiday, weekend, and seasonal changes

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the network beyond electricity

• Power quality information—such as power outages, sags, swells, and frequency measurements—which enables predictive repairs and optimizations

• Extensive load-profiling capabilities to understand customer consumption

• Real-time scheduled or remote load control to prevent brownouts or blackouts

• Remote disconnect of main load, for managing vacant or high-turnover premises (such as vacation homes or apartments) without on-site visits

• Superior tamper and fraud detection, which increase compliance and revenue

• Full remote configuration capabilities, which eliminate the need to visit meters to change tariff schedule, display, or load control

• Standard digital meter installation—no special skills or tools required

Key Smart Grid Alliances: HCL Infosystems Limited has become a value-added reseller (VAR) of Echelon's NES advanced metering system in India. HCL Infosystems is an Indian information and communication technologies system integrator, specializing in infrastructure projects including power and utility systems.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Danish utility SEAS-NVE has awarded an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project to Echelon NES VAR partner Eltel Networks A/S, with MDMS and enterprise software tools from NES VAR partner Görlitz AG. Under the project, which is targeted to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008 and complete by the end of 2011, Eltel will deploy NES AMI to approximately 390,000 SEAS-NVE customers

ENERGOAUDITCONTROL, a Russian engineering company and VAR of Echelon's NES advanced metering system, has ordered an additional 80,000 smart meters, extending the scope of an advanced metering project in Russia announced last year. With this latest order, the project has increased in size to approximately 180,000 networked meters.

Eltel Networks A/S, a VAR of Echelon's NES advanced metering infrastructure, has been awarded a contract by the Danish utility EnergiMidt to deploy the NES system to all of its 170,000 residential customers.

Swedish utility Halmstad Energi och Miljö AB has selected Echelon’s NES advanced metering system for updating its customer base of 38,000 electricity meters. The project, which began late in the fourth quarter of 2007, has been awarded to NES VAR partner ES Mätteknik AB.

Stadtwerke Feldkirch, the municipal utility for the city of Feldkirch, Austria, has chosen Echelon's NES system for an advanced metering project. NES VAR SITRONICS Telecom Solutions will provide the advanced metering solution, including their NES based UTILIS Real-Time Meter Management system. Following a successful 330 household pilot project started last June, this new award increases the project scope to



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an additional 3,000 customers.

Swedish utility Vattenfall AB has exercised a third option for up to 100,000 additional Echelon NES meters and associated data concentrators and system software, bringing the total number of meters released under the project to about 600,000.

Echelon’s NES system has been selected by LINZ STROM, Austria to network 75,000 of its customers using advanced meters. The project includes an option for an additional 75,000 of their remaining 175,000 meters. NES VAR Ubitronix, will serve as the prime contractor. The LINZ STROM project includes in-home command and control via the NES meter's EN 13757 (M-Bus) communications connection to existing gas or water meters. A Ubitronix developed Load Management Module with integrated M-Bus controller and corresponding enterprise applications specifically for use with the NES system manages up to four separate circuits – creating a cost-effective, two-way demand response and load management system for high-consumption in-home devices.



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Elster Electricity 208 S. Rogers Lane Raleigh, NC 27610 Tel: (919) 250-5405 Fax: (919) 250-5439 Web site: http://www.elsterelectricity.com/ Company Overview: Elster Electricity is a provider of advanced electricity metering products, communication solutions, and metering automation systems. Elster is part of the world's largest multi-utility metering company combining the leaders in electricity, water, and gas metering. Elster develops and manufactures electricity metering products, systems, and services that are used worldwide. Its expertise in metering technology and in developing innovative products and services gives its customers many options for solutions that meet their business objectives. Elster offers a full line of single phase and polyphase electromechanical meters.

Smart Grid Products: The EnergyAxis® System is an AMI solution that offers utilities tools and information they can use to enhance the quality of their customer service and business operations. It uses a two-way controlled mesh solution that supports electric, gas and water utility applications.

Elster's REX® meter is an electronic meter designed for residential metering. With two-way communications, it offers demand, time-of-use (TOU), load profile recording, bidirectional metering, and critical tier pricing capabilities in addition to kWh consumption measurement. The REX meter has on-board two-way RF communications that permit the meter to respond to requests over an unlicensed 900 MHz local area network (LAN). REX meters deployed on the EnergyAxis® System act as repeaters and are self-registering via an A3 ALPHA® meter/collector.

The REX2-EA meter brings many enhancements that support the emerging needs of smart grid initiatives, such as enhanced memory, greater security, and remote upgradeability. Developed with technology and communications flexibility in mind, the REX2 platform is both a smart metering endpoint and a gateway into the home supporting both 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ZigBee communications. The REX2 meter offers a flexible platform providing metering functions including bidirectional energy, power measurement, TOU metering, interval data recording, and critical tier pricing. With the EnergyAxis System, any of these features can be controlled remotely. When provided with the optional integrated service control switch, the REX2-EA meter may be used to remotely connect or disconnect service. The service control switch also provides load limiting functionality, allowing utilities to avoid expensive site visits.

Elster’s gREX meter offers the same state-of-the-art AMI capabilities that provide significant value in residential applications. The gREX meter offers a flexible platform providing metering functions including bidirectional energy, power measurement, time-of-use metering, interval data recording, and critical peak pricing. With the EnergyAxis System, any of these features can be controlled remotely. gREX meters include an integral Elster-designed frequency hopping spread spectrum transceiver operating in the 900 MHz band. This 900 MHz module provides excellent communications range and penetration, allowing the gREX meter to act as an intelligent two-way endpoint in the Elster EnergyAxis mesh AMI network. The gREX meter has a small footprint that allows

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for installation in the smallest physical locations. It conforms to typical IEC standards as well as ANSI electrical standards.

The A3 ALPHA® polyphase meter uses Elster's patented digital measurement techniques that offer high accuracy, repeatability, and low ownership costs. Building upon standard meter design that includes form consolidation, voltage and class consolidations, 0.2% accuracy class meters, functional scalability and standard two week lead times, the A3 ALPHA meter is available in single phase and polyphase form factors. The A3 ALPHA meter is a communications platform, and it can be easily integrated into a variety of AMR and AMI solutions by adding option boards to the meter.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: The Advanced Grid Infrastructure (AGI) Initiative is a collaborative effort between utilities, Elster, and key technology partners to realize innovative AMI-based solutions for the smart grid of the future. AGI provides the utility industry with a powerful set of hardware and software solutions needed in the critical area of distribution automation. This initiative allows Elster and its partners to offer standards-based solutions that enable utilities to improve the operation of their distribution network by leveraging their AMI investment. Partners include: ABB, Lindsey Manufacturing Group, FieldMetrics, and Sensorlink.

Elster has executed a memorandum of understanding with Itron to integrate Itron’s OpenWay advanced communications platform with Elster’s REX2™ and A3 ALPHA® meters. Under the terms of the agreement, Itron will develop an OpenWay communications board to be integrated with Elster smart meters.

Elster and Eka Systems announced the commercial release of the EKA-1100 Node for Elster Electricity’s A3 ALPHA meter. An EKA-1100 equipped A3 ALPHA meter offers high accuracy, repeatability, and low total ownership costs to utilities deploying EkaNet™ Smart Network wireless AMI solutions. The A3 ALPHA meter with the EKA-1100 Node provides superior commercial and industrial metering functionality for EkaNet Smart Network users.

Elster Electricity and Sensus Metering Systems have signed an agreement which outlines that Elster will integrate the Sensus FlexNet SmartPoint™ communications board into the A3 ALPHA meter. The agreement between Elster and Sensus allows users to order A3 ALPHA meters directly from either Elster or Sensus with the FlexNet SmartPoint module installed during Elster’s meter manufacturing process. This will streamline the order process for meter customers and allow Elster and Sensus to better serve their respective customers.

Elster Electricity and Distribution Control Systems, Inc. have released the Universal Metering Transponder (UMT-C-A3) for Elster’s A3 ALPHA meter. The UMT-C transponder expands the capabilities of the TWACS power line communications network to retrieve critical meter data from the A3 ALPHA meter at commercial and industrial metering locations. In addition to the quality meter reading features of TWACS CMTs, the UMT-C-A3 provides enhanced outage tracking and analysis, demand reset, and more mapped registers.



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Key Smart Grid Installations: Elster has been awarded a contract from Metrix for a full-scale deployment of its EnergyAxis System in Auckland, New Zealand. The system will feature 300,000 REX smart meters built on a new meter platform conforming to IEC standards. Metrix will use the EnergyAxis System to collect interval usage data daily across its entire smart meter population allowing it to offer value-added services to retail electric providers and consumers. In the future, retail electricity providers may use the interval metering data to offer flexible rate plans and empower consumer-driven energy conservation.

Elster has been awarded a contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) for the deployment of 800,000 smart meters for residential, commercial and industrial consumers. The APS smart metering program will use a broad range of Elster technologies to help its consumers monitor electrical usage, in real-time, and enable APS to identify and correct service interruptions more quickly while improving efficiencies in APS meter reading, billing and customer service operations.

Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited has installed over 345,000 EnergyAxis System smart meters throughout its service area. Toronto Hydro selected the EnergyAxis System to meet the requirements of the Ontario Smart Metering Initiative.

Salt River Project is continuing to install approximately 10,000 REX meters per month as part of its EnergyAxis System expansion project. The utility expects to install all of the previously purchased meters, totaling 175,000 REX meters installed since the system was deployed. The on-going expansion includes an additional 20,000 REX meters with internal service control switches, bringing the total number of REX meters with remote connect/disconnect capability to 45,000.



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GE Energy 130 Main St. Somersworth, NH 03878 Tel: 518-869-555 Fax: 518-869-2828 Web site: http://www.gepower.com/ Company Overview: GE Energy is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2006 revenue of $19 billion. GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels.

Smart Grid Products: Encompass meters provide more than efficient revenue metering. They provide real time instrumentation, high quality power monitoring and cost-effective service measurements. Encompass configurations can meet a wide range of your metering requirements: from metering energy rates and collecting critical quality of service to collecting load analysis information.

The kV2c Encompass meters provide several enhancements over the kV2 meter. The kV2c and kV2c+ models provide calibration pulses that can compensate for transformer losses. They provide self-read data without using a recording option. The models can calculate up to five thermal demand values. The kV2c can be ordered equipped with DCSI's UMT-C Module, Hunt’s TS1 DRR Endpoint Transmitter, Hunt’s TS2 PLC, Itron’s 53ESS ERT, Silver Spring Networks’ PowerPoint, Cellnet’s UtiliNet Endpoint, and Trilliant’s CellReader.

GE offers 3 single-phase electronic meter options: the I-210, I-210+ and I-210+c. They all range in functionality, with the I-210+c being the most robust and flexible meter with advanced capabilities. Each of these meters features a design that is a powerful combination of accuracy, affordability and reliability and provides the measurement tool to deliver equitable customer billing and dependable maintenance-free operation over its operating life. The I-210 can be ordered equipped with Itron 52ESS ERT, Hunt TS1 Endpoint, DCSI's EMT-3G or UMT-R, and Silver Spring Networks’ NIC.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: GE is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

Eka Systems has an agreement with GE Energy to integrate GE’s I-210+ meter family with the EkaNet™ Smart Network AMI solution.

Key Smart Grid Installations: GE and AEP have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy advanced energy delivery and metering technologies that will give residential and industrial consumers greater control over their energy usage and costs. GE Energy will provide products and technology while AEP will focus on the deployment of advanced metering and enhanced infrastructure technologies designed to change the way electricity is delivered to and used by customers. Plans call for the initial use of the technologies in two AEP distribution regions, totaling 200,000 customers, by the end of 2008, provided necessary regulatory approvals are completed.

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Itron 2111 N Molter Road Liberty Lake, WA 99019 Tel: (800) 635-5461 Web site: http://www.itron.com/ Company Overview: Itron provides products and services that help the energy and water industries. Almost 3,000 utilities around the world use Itron’s technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. For energy, Itron provides solutions for electricity metering, meter data collection, energy information management, demand response, load forecasting, analysis and consulting services, distribution system design and optimization, web-based workforce automation, and enterprise and residential energy management. Itron Inc. is comprised of Itron in North America, and Actaris outside of North America.

Smart Grid Products: OpenWay® by Itron is a standards-based, open-architecture smart metering solution that features two-way wireless communication to state-of-the-art electricity meters at homes and small businesses. OpenWay is designed to meet a broad set of customer energy management requirements, such as real-time energy communication to thermostats, information displays and energy smart appliances using ZigBee technology.

The OpenWay CENTRON meter is fully compliant with the ANSI C12.19 and C12.22 standards for storage and transport of register data over a network, providing a secure open-standards approach to data collection and communications with the meter. In addition, each OpenWay CENTRON meter comes factory-equipped with a ZigBee radio chip to provide a built-in communications pathway to the home for data presentment, load control and demand response. The OpenWay CENTRON meter also provides robust data storage capability to support time-of-use pricing, load profile data and other data-intensive applications, as well as the most advanced feature set available to support “mart Grid requirements. These features include full two-way communication, a load-limiting remote disconnect and reconnect switch, positive outage detection and restoration notification, voltage monitoring, automatic tamper and theft detection, as well as the ability to reprogram the meter remotely and upload new firmware via the network.

The SENTINEL is a solid-state, polyphase meter of exceptional accuracy. This self-contained or transformer-rated meter is designed for use with high-end commercial and industrial customers, including large industrial sites and substations. The microprocessor-based register performs the primary functions including energy, demand, time-of-use, and load profile. The metrology performs the direct sampling of the voltage and current waveforms and the raw processing of these samples to compute all the fundamental energy quantities. Register functions and firmware can be easily updated without disturbing the fine calibration of SENTINEL meter’s metrology or returning the meter to the factory. The SENTINEL has two ports for communicating with the meter register: an optical port and a 9600-baud auxiliary data port. Optional communications modules are available for Ethernet, RF, modem, serial RS-232/RS-485 and GPRS SmartMeter.

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capability for complex measurements is ideal for large commercial, industrial, and utility power exchange points. Multiple connectivity options provide a wide array of communications and configurations. The QUANTUM Q1000 meter is equally versatile in high-speed communication, from frame relay and fiber optics to radio, phone, dial-up, and microwave. The software can be tailored to provide customers with read-only access to meter data to help control consumption. The QUANTUM Q1000 meter supports basic and extended time-of-use rate structures including user-configurable settings on the active/reactive energy and demand rates used for industrial customer applications. The meter also supports interruptible rates providing customers a signal to reduce load under a contracted demand at critical times.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Itron and AT&T have partnered to allow smart meters to be used over a cellular network. The solution integrates wide-area networking using AT&T’s nationwide, high speed cellular data network with Itron’s OpenWay local-area networking to give utilities two-way communications for access to data from meters throughout their systems. This combination allows utilities to quickly collect, measure and manage energy usage and provide a more reliable and affordable supply of power without having to build and operate costly, proprietary communications networks.

Itron and SmartSynch have a partnership that includes delivering cellular communications for AMI solutions that are integrated into Itron’s OpenWay CENTRON meter. Inclusion of SmartSynch's IP-enabled public wireless technology into Itron OpenWay CENTRON meters allows Itron to propose an AMI solution to utilities that provides communication to 100% of the targeted meters

Itron and Silver Spring Networks have executed an agreement to integrate Itron’s OpenWay Advanced Metering platform with Silver Spring’s IP-based Smart Energy Networking solution. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have addressed the technical, functional, and solution delivery issues required to deliver a complete, fully supported Advanced Metering and Meter Data Management Solution with end-to-end IP connectivity.

Itron is a member of the GridWise Alliance. It has also formed partnerships with Eka Systems and Comverge. Finally, Itron has partnered with Trilliant and now offers factory integration of Trilliant’s communications modules.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Itron has reached an agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric to replace or upgrade the utility’s 2.3 million electric and gas meters with Itron OpenWay technology for its smart meter initiative. Itron will provide its OpenWay electric meters and gas modules and Itron Enterprise Edition™ Meter Data Management software, as well as implementation, project management and installation services for the utility’s smart meter project. The agreement must be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission.

Itron has signed a contract with DTE Energy to provide the Detroit-based utility with OpenWay advanced metering technology to automate a total of 2.6 million electric meters and 700,000 natural gas meters over the next six years. DTE Energy’s two operating utilities, Detroit Edison and Michigan Consolidated Gas, will install approximately 30,000. Subject to successful performance testing, full deployment of the AMI system will commence in 2009. The contract includes OpenWay CENTRON electric



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meters, gas modules, and related system software and implementation services.

Itron has signed an agreement with CenterPoint Energy’s electric transmission and distribution utility for deployment of OpenWay technology in the Houston area. Subject to regulatory approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas, CenterPoint Energy’s deployment plans call for initial installation of OpenWay network communication infrastructure and electricity meters to meet the advanced metering and data collection needs of retail electric providers operating in CenterPoint Energy’s service territory. The contract provides CenterPoint Energy the ability to purchase up to 2 million meters if it ultimately moves to a full deployment across its electric service territory.

Itron has reached an agreement with Southern California Edison to deploy Itron’s OpenWay meter and communications system as part of the company’s Edison SmartConnect metering program. Edison plans to automate 5.3 million meters from 2009 through 2012.



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Landis+Gyr Feldstrasse 1 CH-6301 Zug Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)41 935 6000 Fax: +41 (0)41 935 6501 Web site: http://www.landisgyr.com/ Company Overview: Landis+Gyr provides a full range of metering products and services that are applicable in power plant, commercial, industrial, and residential settings. Its meters are equipped with features enabling them to perform various tasks as needed. The company’s metering systems provide integrated solutions that can be adapted to fit a variety of business environments. The company is a subsidiary of the Bayard Group. In May 2008 the Bayard Group announced that it would become Landis+Gyr Holdings and all its subsidiaries would adopt the Landis+Gyr name.

Smart Grid Products: The FOCUS meter was designed to be a low-cost, solid-state, kWh-only meter as an alternative metering and AMR platform to the induction meter. The meter is based on reliable, field proven digital multiplication measurement technique. The meter platform will measure energy accurately over varying environmental conditions. It is designed to be stable over its long expected life. Each FOCUS has built-in compatibility for a variety of AMR packages. Various communication technologies are available in the FOCUS meter—RF to PLC, one-way or two-way. Any of these can be factory installed. The FOCUS Advanced Function Disconnect Meter provides the utility industry with a reliable, quality, solid-state meter platform that will easily adapt to smart grid technologies. This product, offers open AMI communications, Demand, TOU, Load Profile, and a full 200 Amp service disconnect switch under glass that fully supports energy and demand response programs.

The MX meter is engineered to meet the demands of evolving communication technologies and utility needs over the long term. Energy, Demand, TOU and Load Profile capabilities are all available on the MX. AMR in a variety of communications technologies can be installed initially or retrofit to the MX. A wide variety of AMR communication technologies are supported on the MX platform—RF to PLC, one-way or two-way.

The S4e meter platform offers a number of functional enhancements over previous S4 family meters—flash memory for firmware upgrades, an ANSI C12.19 standard protocol, transformer loss compensation option and on-board load profile option. S4e meters also meet the highest industry standards for accuracy—achieving 0.2% accuracy on socket and A-base meters and 0.5% accuracy for Kbase meters. These high levels of accuracy, along with the wide range of meter configurations available, enable a utility to custom build its S4e network, tailored to the exact specifications of its various applications from small commercial and industrial (C&I) demand to substation metering.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Landis+Gyr has an agreement with Eka Systems to integrate its AMI residential FOCUS meter with the EkaNet Smart Network AMI solution. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have addressed the technical, functional, and solution delivery required for utilities to deploy a true mesh, fully

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supported Smart Network AMI solution.

Landis+Gyr and Silver Spring Networks have announced an alliance to provide an integrated smart metering solution. Landis+Gyr meters, equipped with Silver Spring Networks’ Network Interface Card (NIC) combine smart meter performance with end-to-end, IP-based communications.

Landis+Gyr has entered into a collaborative initiative with Elster to provide interoperable AMI solutions for greater customer choice. The alliance will allow the two companies to develop an AMI endpoint that combines Elster’s EnergyAxis® System mesh radio frequency technology with Landis+Gyr’s solid-state, residential FOCUS meter platform. Once completed, the endpoint will offer utilities using the EnergyAxis System a choice when considering metering options.

Landis+Gyr and Sensus Metering Systems have entered into an agreement whereby Sensus will develop a FlexNet SmartPoint communications module for the Landis+Gyr FOCUS AL, AX and S4e meter platforms.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Landis+Gyr and Trilliant have announced the deployment of an AMI project for three utility companies in Ontario. Over 350,000 residential smart meters will be deployed as part of these activities. The companies are Hydro One, Hydro One Brampton, and Milton Hydro Distribution. Under the venture, launched in 2006, the partners have delivered more than 350,000 Trilliant SecureMesh Communications enabled Landis+Gyr FOCUS residential meters, which support advanced metering, demand response, and time-of-use rates.



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Silver Spring Networks 575 Broadway Street Redwood City, CA 94063 Tel: (650) 298-4200 Fax: (650) 363-5240 Web site: http://www.silverspringnet.com/

Company Overview: Silver Spring Networks creates the critical networking infrastructure for the Smart Grid, known as a Smart Energy Network. Based on the IP suite, it addresses the challenges of running multiple applications and devices on a common networking infrastructure using multiple transport technologies, dramatically improving efficiency, lowering costs and ensuring the reliable delivery of services.

Smart Grid Products: Silver Spring Networks’ Smart Energy Network provides the framework for various technologies to harmoniously work together. With a Smart Energy Network, a utility can “plug-and-play” any IP-enabled device, deploy IP-based consumer energy portals, perform intelligent load shedding, enable remote disconnect and more. The Smart Energy Network supports AMI/AMR, credit and collections, dynamic pricing and outage management, to name just a few applications.

UtilOS is a field-proven Network Operating System that allows millions of intelligent devices to work together to improve reliability, provide new services and empower customers.

UtilityIQ is the integrated application suite for AMR, distribution automation device monitoring, DR program management, advanced network administration, and scalable, reliable data management via the Smart Energy Network. UtilityIQ Advanced Metering leverages the real-time smart energy network to provide new services to customers for billing, operations, demand response, marketing, load forecasting and customer service. Configurable, automated schedules collect meter data for further analysis and action. Integration with demand-response and customer-facing applications gives customers up-to-date information about consumption and expected billing rates. UtilityIQ NM supports device management, network health monitoring, version control, remote firmware upgrades and device interoperability. Built-in are installation, configuration, provisioning, management, monitoring and control functions, allowing seamless integration of both existing and new business support applications.

Access Point SG enables reliable, flexible network connectivity, both upstream and downstream. With battery backup, it can route scheduled read and management tasks, even during an outage. Downstream, the Access Point SG provides a highly reliable connection to electricity, water and gas meters in a Neighborhood Area Network. It contains a Silver Spring Networks NIC for communicating with intelligent endpoints including meters, DR load switches and T-stats. Relay SG empowers utilities to extend network reach cost-effectively to more customers. The highly reliable standards-based RF network relay connects Access Point SG and Smart Grid endpoint devices for secure, real-time measurement and control. The Relay SG supports a long list of value-added applications and services, including AMI, DR, Outage/Restoration Management and Distribution Automation.

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The company’s NICs act as relays which reinforce and extend the network. NICs are compatible with Landis+Gyr, GE, Itron, and Sensus electric meters. They can be easily installed in the GE kV2c polyphase commercial and industrial meter to provide provides internal wireless networking – a solution that is required to bring about AMI. NICs can also be integrated with Itron CENTRON Meters, GE I-210+ Meters, and Sensus iCon meters.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Silver Spring Networks is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

Silver Spring Networks has also launched a Technology Alliance Program. The Company’s technology partners offer market-leading products and applications that complement Silver Spring Networks’ Smart Energy Network. Silver Spring Networks partners include:

• Advanced Metering: GE Energy, Itron, Landis+Gyr, Sensus

• Demand/Energy Management: Comverge, EnerNOC

• Home Area Networks and Devices: Arch Rock, Carrier, Control4, Energate, Greenbox Technologies, Invensys, Radio Thermostat Company of America, Tendril

• Networking: Cisco, Digi International

• Software: eMeter, GridPoint, Itron, Oracle, OSIsoft

Silver Spring Networks and Itron have executed an agreement to integrate Itron’s OpenWay Advanced Metering platform with Silver Spring’s Smart Energy Networking solution. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have addressed the technical, functional, and solution delivery issues required to deliver a complete, fully supported Advanced Metering and MDMS with end-to-end IP connectivity.

Silver Spring Networks has announced the commercial availability of the Itron CENTRON residential electricity meter equipped with the Silver Spring Networks’ NIC. This combination provides high quality meter performance with two-way, IP-based communications for the next generation utility network.

Silver Spring Networks and Landis+Gyr have an alliance to provide an integrated smart metering solution. Landis+Gyr meters, equipped with Silver Spring Networks’ NIC combine smart meter performance with end-to-end, IP-based communications. Smart Energy Network- enabled Landis+Gyr FOCUS™ AL and FOCUS AX meters will be equipped with smart grid communications capabilities at the factory, through incorporation of a Silver Spring Networks NIC. Landis+Gyr will act as the single point of contact for customer service, warranty concerns, returns and repairs.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Silver Spring Networks announced a partnership with Greenbox Technology for deployment of the Greenbox interactive energy management program for Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E). The deployment is part of the OG&E’s Positive Energy SmartPower program, aimed at giving customers more control over their energy consumption and costs. Silver Spring Networks is providing the network infrastructure, data collection, and integration. Customers will be able to use Greenbox’s



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web-based interface to track how much energy they are using.

Silver Spring Networks has been selected by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to provide advanced networking products and services to serve its 5 million electric customers in California. Silver Spring was selected, after a rigorous market review and field testing, to support PG&E’s SmartMeter™ Program Upgrade. Silver Spring Networks and PG&E have signed a definitive agreement and deployment activity is underway, with full metering deployment expected to be completed by 2012. Under the agreement, Silver Spring Networks will provide network infrastructure, network devices, operating software and a variety of services in long-term support of PG&E’s efforts.

Silver Spring Networks and Florida Power & Light (FPL) have signed an agreement to deploy an advanced, two-way IP-based networking communication infrastructure in support of FPL’s implementation of AMI and its Smart Grid vision. Under the agreement, Silver Spring Networks will provide FPL with a variety of advanced networking products and support services designed to provide full two-way wireless network communications to the customer’s meter. The implementation will be in two phases and will include both residential and small commercial customers.

Silver Spring Networks successfully deployed a smart meter network pilot project for Westario Power. This project was initiated as part of the Ontario Utilities Smart Metering Working Group’s smart metering evaluations. Working with Rodan Energy & Metering Solutions for installation services and GE Energy for advanced meters, Silver Spring Networks designed, implemented and installed an AMI solution for Westario.



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SmartSynch 4400 Old Canton Road Suite 300 Jackson, MS 39211 Tel: (888) 362-1780 Fax: (601) 362-1787 Web site: http://www.smartsynch.com/

Company Overview: SmartSynch provides innovative SmartMetering™ solutions that leverage public wireless networks and bring value to customers. SmartSynch has been developing Smart Grid Intelligence solutions for the utility industry since 2000. It offers innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks, in lieu of private network build-outs, which has simplified SmartMeter™ deployments for more than 75 major North American electric utilities.

Smart Grid Products: The SmartMeter consists of a solid-state meter, an advanced SSI module and a communication device. These components work in conjunction to become an intelligent client to the Transaction Management System (TMS). The meter provides all standard metering functions and acts as the database for the integrated device by storing metering data in ANSI tables. The SSI module is responsible for monitoring various tables within the meter, executing scheduled tasks and monitoring for power outages or other alarm conditions. The SmartMeter System is designed for SmartMeters to operate in an autonomous manner, having responsibility for monitoring both interval schedules and exceptions. In this way, data can be sent from the device in near real time. This model differs from traditional metering models in which each device is polled remotely by a head-end software system. SmartSynch has designed both the SmartMeter and TMS with the flexibility to accommodate various network infrastructures and protocols.

SmartSynch SmartMeters are fully certified to use the GPRS wireless protocol for two-way communication with the host system which allows them to be deployed virtually anywhere. The standards-based IP connectivity enabled in every SmartSynch SmartMeter makes them adaptable and remotely upgradable to support the emerging Smart Grid's sensor and communications needs. The Wi-Fi SmartMeter System enables direct two-way communication between the TMS head-end application and SmartMeters deployed in urban areas with adequate coverage. The Wi-Fi SmartMeter System also enables direct IP connectivity to each device, providing fast, secure metering data transfer, often with lower service costs than other backhaul systems.

TMS is an advanced application for management and monitoring of the system. At installation, the SmartMeters have no pre-configured schedules or thresholds. Each SmartMeter goes through a provisioning process in TMS that sets the utility’s required parameters. Once the SmartMeter is provisioned, it is the responsibility of the SmartMeter to send its data to TMS. Since TMS is used to configure the SmartMeters, it is aware of the schedules for all SmartMeters under its control. If SmartMeters fail to report in, TMS can take appropriate corrective action. In this way, devices are polled by exception rather than as the rule. This model provides for greater throughput than other alternatives.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: SmartSynch is a member of the GridWise Alliance and the ZigBee Alliance.

SmartSynch and Itron have extended their existing partnership to include delivery of cellular communications for AMI solutions integrated into the OpenWay CENTRON meter. Inclusion of SmartSynch's IP-enabled public wireless technology into CENTRON meters allows Itron to propose an AMI solution to utilities that provides communication to 100% of the targeted meters.

SmartSynch will develop a communications component that enables public wireless connectivity for the EnergyAxis System by Elster. SmartSynch’s technology will be integrated into A3 ALPHA meter collectors in the form of an under-the-cover communications module that enables usage data collected from the meter nodes throughout the mesh network to be transmitted securely via public wireless networks to utility information systems.

SmartSynch has a strategic alliance with Olameter that will facilitate increased implementation of advanced metering technology while improving its accessibility to Canada’s utilities and local distribution companies. Olameter has added SmartSynch’s TMS software to their ASP suite of data collection solutions. TMS and Olameter’s data management solutions provide a simple data integration path to existing billing and back-office systems. The complete SmartMeter system enables Olameter to extend its data collection capabilities to advanced meters throughout its clients’ service territory.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Hydro One deployed 25,000 SmartSynch smart meters between 2006 to 2008.

Burbank Water and Power (BWP) is deploying the world’s first Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters, which will operate on a new municipal Wi-Fi network deployed by BWP. The utility serves 45,000 households and 6,000 businesses in Burbank, Calif., with water and electricity. Once fully deployed, the municipal Wi-Fi network will cover the entire city and SmartSynch’s Wi-Fi-enabled SmartMeters will monitor BWP’s entire energy load.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has chosen SmartSynch to expand its AMI serving its commercial and industrial customers. SmartSynch will provide 6,000 SmartSynch C&I SmartMeter units through an agreement awarded to SmartSynch via competitive bid. The utility has already purchased 9,000 SmartSynch C&I SmartMeters as part of an earlier deployment initiative completed in 2004.



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Two-way Communication Network Vendors

Aclara 945 Hornet Drive Hazelwood, MO 63042 Tel: (800) 297-2728 Web site: http://www.aclaratech.com/ Company Overview: Aclara is a subsidiary of ESCO, a supplier of special purpose utility solutions for electric, gas, and water utilities, including hardware and software to support advanced metering applications and fully automated intelligent instrumentation. The Aclara brand represents fixed-network AMI/AMR technologies and MDM software serving water, gas, and electric utilities worldwide. It is composed of DCSI (TWACS®), Hexagram, Inc. (STAR® Network), and Nexus Energy Software (Energy Vision and ENERGYprism). These three companies operate as Aclara Power-Line Systems, Aclara RF Systems, and Aclara Software.

Smart Grid Products: The Aclara TWACS Technology is a proven, fixed-network solution that uses patented technology to transmit data over power lines. It provides two-way communication to and from electric meters, thus enabling utilities to use load control, demand response, and outage detection and assessment, while providing their customers with timely billing. It acts as the “brain” of a two-way automatic communications system. The TWACS Net Server with TWACS OC (Operations Center) software manages the TWACS communications network and controls advanced metering data for utilities. The software employs a relational database and a Windows-based interface to manage the data generated by a utility’s metering operations.

TWACS OPTIMUM™ is a new software solution that provides web service integration to third party software applications via the MultiSpeak 3.0 standard and “other” web service standards. OPTIMUM version 1.5 has 25 methods implemented for customer billing, outage management, SCADA, engineering analysis and geographic information system (GIS). TWACS PROASYS allows utilities to quickly assess system status and identify outages, helping them to complete repairs faster. The system monitors power reliability and remotely verifies customer-reported outages. PROASYS strategically pings meters based on network topology. Its group-mode function pings over 1000 meters per minute per bus. PROASYS is integrated with a number of web-based third-party software solution providers and supports integration with SCADA, IVR, GIS, customer information system (CIS), and OMS systems.

DCSI’s Commercial Metering Transponder (CMT) provides electric utilities with a highly versatile, high performance solution for remotely acquiring billing and other strategic information about their commercial customers’ usage patterns. The CMT provides remote reading of electricity usage at both single and poly-phase commercial customers with a wide selection of meter forms including under-glass 480V 3-wire delta installations. CMTs are available for the Itron Sentinel, Landis+Gyr S4, GE kV2c, and Elster A3 Alpha meters.

DCSI’s Electronic Metering Transponder (EMT) integrates the features of economical, solid-state single-phase residential meter with the powerful TWACS two-way fixed

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network power line communication system. The EMT-3G is installed under the glass and provides remote access to all necessary electrical measurements including total and accurate consumption data, peak demand and hourly interval data. EMTs are available for the GE I-210, Itron Centron, Landis+Gyr FOCUS and ALTIMUS meters.

The Aclara STAR Network AMI system uses secure, licensed radio frequencies to provide robust data communications. The STAR wireless fixed network provides data quickly, automatically, and efficiently, bringing benefits to both utilities and customers. The STAR Network Meter Transmission Units (MTUs) are small, permanently sealed modules that are connected to water meters or are integrated into electric and gas meters. MTUs read the meter and forward the meter data on an FCC-licensed wireless channel at customer-specified intervals as short as five minutes. These messages are received by one of several Data Collector Units that cover the service area. STAR Network Data Collector Units (DCUs) are intelligent network devices that receive, process, and store meter reading information transmitted from STAR Network MTUs. The DCUs forward this information to the STAR Network Control Computer (NCC) located at the utility. DCUs connect to the NCC by a variety of backhaul communication networks, including fiber optic, Wi-Fi, and cellular. The NCC collects, validates, processes, and stores data transmitted by the STAR Network DCUs. It provides billing, customer service, operations, and other utility departments with timely access to comprehensive account information. The STAR Network system also provides a complete range of customizable management and diagnostic reports.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Aclara is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

Key Smart Grid Installations: The TWACS PLC solution has been selected by Idaho Power for its proposed AMI project. Idaho Power initially deployed TWACS with a 25,000 unit deployment intended to substantiate the business case for AMI and to test customer response to time-of-use billing and demand response/load control programs. The successful performance of this technology over the past few years was a significant factor in Idaho Power’s decision to expand to a system-wide TWACS deployment.

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) has chosen the STAR Network system to help the utility’s AMI pilot program. The pilot is part of BGE’s Smart Energy Savers Program, and will focus on evaluating the ability of certain AMI technologies to increase customer options and enable better energy management. During the pilot BGE will evaluate the STAR Network System and other AMI technologies in two Maryland service areas.

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has selected the STAR Network system from Aclara to provide additional electric AMI products for PG&E’s SmartMeter™ Program. PG&E began evaluating Aclara's RF electric solution in June 2007 with a 2,000 unit field trial intended to demonstrate and validate the capabilities of the network. The successful performance of this technology throughout the field trial was a significant factor in PG&E's decision to expand the deployment of this product. PG&E has ordered 88,000 Aclara RF electric devices to be installed in the Central Valley region of northern California, which extends from Modesto to Sacramento. These units will include a ZigBee connector as well as an interface to a connect/disconnect function integrated in the meter. PG&E has indicated it is their intent to order a significant quantity of Aclara RF electric AMI devices throughout 2008, in addition to the nearly 400,000 TWACS PLC-based electric AMI devices being installed in the Bakersfield and Vacaville areas.

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This electric deployment is in addition to PG&E's ongoing gas AMI installations utilizing Aclara products. The RF electric units will operate under PG&E's installed STAR Network AMI system which currently manages data from over 200,000 gas meters already installed in the Central Valley. Aclara RF Systems is currently under contract with PG&E to provide a potential 4.1 million gas units over the life of the contract.



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Ambient 79 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02458 Tel: (617) 332-0004 Fax: (617) 332-7260 Web site: http://www.ambientcorp.com/ Company Overview: Ambient designs, develops and markets its Ambient Smart Grid™ communications technologies and equipment. Its proprietary, open-standards based technologies are designed to help utilities to create smart grid communication platforms that allow for two-way communication. Ambient Corporation is a pioneering integrator of powerline-based communications platforms, creating high-speed data communications networks over existing medium and low voltage distribution lines.

Smart Grid Products: The Ambient Smart Grid facilitates a two-way, real-time communications network to serve the “last mile” backhaul, necessary for utilities to implement smart grid applications such as AMR, real-time pricing, demand side management, and direct load control. The Ambient Smart Grid communications solution is a modular network overlaid on the medium-voltage and low-voltage segments of the power distribution system allowing real-time insight into the operations of the electrical distribution grid while supporting any IP-based application. High-speed backhaul connections (which go to the Internet or to private networks) connect the Ambient Smart Grid network at any point along the medium voltage circuit allowing for IP data traffic to be carried, via a choice of multiple technologies including BPL, Wi-Fi, cellular, and/or low bit rate PLC.

Ambient has integrated two intelligent grid applications into its core BPL communications platform for use in both overhead and underground systems. These are current and voltage sensing applications. Ambient’s ability for providing sensing capabilities is a non-intrusive, easily implemented, and cost-effective.

The Ambient platform is comprised of nodes that act as individual data processors and collectors, sending and receiving the Ambient Smart Grid communications signal from other networked devices such as nodes, couplers, or end-user devices. Ambient’s node is capable of interacting with any device that has a serial or Ethernet port; it can also use existing or developing technologies to deliver communications data at high speeds. The node is modular and can be set up to accomplish different tasks within the network, including repeating the signal and accepting backhaul connections (fiber, Ethernet, etc) or other end-user connections. Nodes can be accessed remotely in order to monitor the status of the system.

Ambient’s network also includes couplers, which are appropriate for use in certain applications. Couplers transfer the communications signal to and from medium voltage and low voltage power lines in a BPL or PLC network, and also serve to read, in real-time, the current of the electrical distribution grid. An individual coupler cannot achieve all of these options at once, so Ambient developed inductive couplers for medium voltage overhead and underground lines and inductive and capacitive couplers for low voltage applications.

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nodes, devices, and customers on a smart grid network. The product’s interface is browser-based and simple to use. It supports auto-discovery of network resources, VLANs, provisioning, multiple networks, event logging, data collection, alerts, reporting, and multiple levels of users and security.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Ambient is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Ambient is currently undergoing pilot demonstration and deployment projects with major electric utilities including Duke Energy, Consolidated Edison, FirstEnergy and Entergy.

Ambient has received a purchase order for 9,000 units of the X2000, its latest communications node. The purchase order includes licensing of the AmbientNMS, as well as engineering assistance for creating a smart grid and smart metering platform.

Ambient will install its second generation BPL equipment on the underground electric system of Con Edison. Successful completion of the demonstration would allow Con Edison to further evaluate on a larger scale Ambient’s BPL System for monitoring the underground distribution system. Ambient’s BPL platform is designed to support many, if not all, of the sensoring, monitoring and control applications that Con Edison may deploy to enhance its distribution system. Some of the applications that can be supported by the Ambient BPL system include aggregation of meter reading, peak load reductions and demand side management, energy flow measurements, stray voltage detection, and partial discharge detection.



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Arcadian Networks 400 Columbus Avenue Suite 210E Valhalla, NY 10595 Tel: (914) 579-6300 Web site: http://www.arcadiannetworks.com/ Company Overview: Arcadian Networks provides “last mile” wireless carrier services to the energy sector. The company’s 700 megahertz (MHz) licensed spectrum delivers a converged IP network with voice and data communications for fixed and mobile applications. The real-time broadband communications platform reduces operational costs, improves resiliency, and transforms electric grids into efficient “smart grids.”

Smart Grid Products: Arcadian Networks provides utilities with customized, private, wireless, managed solutions based on a modern all digital, TCP/IP networking platform. A solution can be engineered to work with an existing infrastructure. The company offers pay-for performance service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure that networks perform satisfactorily..

Arcadian Networks’ 700 MHz WWAN provides a single ubiquitous “cloud” which converges heterogeneous fixed and mobile; voice and data devices and applications by leveraging TCP/IP, the open standard for communications.

Arcadian Networks’ NOC provides clients with network monitoring service at all hours of the day, everyday of the week. Delivered services include network monitoring, problem management and reporting, diagnostics, event handling, fault and change management, advanced and custom services, and performance monitoring and tuning.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Arcadian Networks is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

Arcadian Networks, EnerNex, GridAgents, Horizon Energy Group and UTInnovation, have formed a strategic services alliance, called NextGrid NOW which will focus on the Smart Grid requirements of municipal and cooperative utilities.

The Arcadian Networks Partner Program is comprised of partners who provide industry application solutions; system integrators and consultants; and communication equipment providers. Industry application solution partners give customers a greater spectrum of capabilities by providing specialized technology and services that work well with Arcadian Networks’ solutions. System Integrators and consultants provide expert consulting, integration and implementation services to help customers integrate Arcadian Networks’ products and solutions. Partners include: Itron, Eka Systems, Black & Veach, EnerNex, Horizon Energy Group, and Power System Engineering.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative and Agralite Electric Cooperative are using Arcadian’s 700 MHz communications network to monitor and manage meter information across their dispersed service area. These co-ops, which previously utilized analog systems for their communication networking needs, will utilize Arcadian Networks' secure, wireless communications solution to collect, monitor and respond to data traveling through over 4,500 miles of power line and 30 sub-stations in

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real-time.

Arcadian Networks has signed Connexus Energy, Minnesota's largest electric distribution cooperative, as a new subscriber to the company's secure, IP-based, wireless broadband network. Connexus Energy will now be connected to Arcadian Networks' 700 MHz licensed broadband platform to manage and control mission-critical data and operations in real-time at three commercial, industrial locations. Connexus Energy will use Arcadian Networks' platform to support activities, including: Customer generation control; Distribution automation; Substation automation; and Outage management.

Stearns Electric Association has joined Arcadian Network’s 700 MHz communications network to monitor and manage meter information across its dispersed customer base. Stearns Electric Association serves 24,000 customers in the Central MN region and is a member of the Great River Energy electric co-op. Arcadian Networks launched its 700 MHz network with Great River Energy as its anchor tenant in April 2006. With a wireless platform in place, not only can Stearns Electric Association accomplish real-time monitoring of its advanced metering assets, it can implement demand response programs and other elements of next generation utility management applications.



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Cellnet+Hunt 30000 Mill Creek Ave. Suite 100 Alpharetta, GA 30022 Tel: (678) 258-1500 Fax: (678) 258-1550 Web site: http://www.cellnethunt.com/ Company Overview: Cellnet+Hunt was created in 2007 when Cellnet Technologies and Hunt Technologies were integrated. Both companies have led the way in developing RF and PLC technologies for utility information networks since 1985. Today Cellnet+Hunt provides advanced metering and smart grid communications solutions to over 500 electric, gas and water utilities across the world. It currently operates the single largest AMI network in the U.S., serving more than 11 million electric, gas, and water endpoints for the country’s top utilities. The company is part of the Landis+Gyr Group.

Smart Grid Products: Cellnet+Hunt technology includes two-way fixed networks for near real-time communication with, and programming of, advanced metering endpoints. Deployment options include dynamic RF mesh and PLC-based systems that enable: Revenue Protection, Interval Usage Data, Demand Response and Time-Based Rates, In-Home Networks, and Remote Disconnect of Service.

Cellnet+Hunt RF mesh network technology delivers the interoperability and cross-functional capabilities necessary for today's smart grid networks, including:

• Utilization of one network for AMI, distribution automation (DA), and in-home network applications

• Integration with multiple MDM platforms

• Full two-way communications capabilities

• Multi-utility functionality - a single network for electric, gas and water

The RF mesh network provides many advantages over other communication platforms, while offering greater interoperability, both within a DA/SCADA network and inside a larger smart grid and advanced metering network. Cellnet+Hunt provides peer-to-peer device communication with a resident software layer that allows both autonomous local operation and supervised control. Distribution devices can be deployed as stand-alone units, integrated radios, and as PC cards enclosed within devices.

PLC Networks from Cellnet+Hunt offer a flexible, scalable and modular solution using innovative ultra-narrow-bandwidth technology to deliver data using existing power line infrastructure. The technology provides "always on" connectivity to every endpoint on the system, offering powerful engineering and distribution monitoring uses in addition to advanced metering applications. The TS1 system is an efficient one-way, fixed-network solution that delivers the meter data needed for accurate and timely billing. It has continuous endpoint communication that provides end-of-line voltage monitoring as well as outage and restoration detection. TS2 technology encompasses all of the TS1 features and goes even further – offering true two-way communication over a PLC

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network for the electric, water and gas industries.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Cellnet+Hunt is a Promoter member of the ZigBee Alliance, as well as the GridWise Alliance.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Landis+Gyr’s Energy Management Solutions division is working to deploy a two-way RF mesh network for Ameren Illinois Utilities, an electric and gas utility serving 1.2 million electric and over 840,000 natural gas customers in Illinois. The utility began deploying a 1.1 million advanced metering endpoint project in 2006. Landis+Gyr’s two-way network infrastructure will allow the utility to utilize smart grid applications and communicate with customers via the distribution grid.

Colorado Springs Utilities has deployed more than 280,000 endpoints for its electric, gas, water, and wastewater advanced metering project that began in 2005. The project is utilizing Cellnet+Hunt’s RF mesh network and is expected to be completed in 2010. The network will provide meter reading for more than 528,000 electric, gas, and water meters.

Austin Energy signed an agreement to expand its deployment of Cellnet+Hunt’s two way advanced meter system (AMS). The utility will deploy Cellnet+Hunt’s two-way mesh AMI system for as many as 234,000 residential and C&I meters during 2008. Since 2002 the utility has used a Cellnet+Hunt fixed-network advanced metering solution for roughly one third of its customers.

Landis+Gyr has a 4 year advanced metering contract Oncor to deploy Cellnet+Hunt’s two-way AMS, which will give Texas consumers the ability to manage their individual electricity consumption levels. About 7 million customers will be impacted via 3 million points of delivery.

Austin Energy has is expanding the deployment of an AMS from Cellnet+Hunt. The agreement calls for Austin Energy to deploy Cellnet+Hunt’s two-way mesh AMI system for up to 234,000 residential and C&I meters in 2008. The utility serves nearly 400,000 electricity customers in and around Austin, TX and has utilized a Cellnet+Hunt fixed-network AMS for approximately a third of its customers since 2002. Based on the Cellnet+Hunt RF mesh communications network, Austin Energy’s deployment will enable the utility to leverage its network for smart grid and demand response applications. These may include time-of-use pricing, distribution automation, load shedding, remote disconnect and in-home communication.

Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) has chosen Cellnet+Hunt's TS2 system for two-way advanced metering. SSVEC, a Cellnet+Hunt TS1 customer since 2001, plans to leverage the expanded functionality of TS2 to bring advanced metering to the urban areas of its service territory. As part of the TS2 deployment project, SSVEC will deploy over 30,000 new Landis+Gyr and General Electric solid state electric meters. The TS2 system includes remote service connect and disconnect capabilities. SSVEC will complete its TS2 deployment in phases scheduled to conclude in 2010.



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Comverge 120 Eagle Rock Avenue Suite 190 East Hanover, NJ 07936 Tel: (888) 565-5525 Fax: (973) 884-3504 Web site: http://www.comverge.com/ Overview: Comverge is a clean energy company that offers demand response and pay-for-performance programs to help meet peak energy challenges. It was founded as a merger of utility technology groups from Scientific Atlanta, Lucent/Bell Labs, and PowerCom. It has more than 500 utility clients in the U.S., and 4.5 million of its devices have been installed to date. The company acquired Enerwise Global Technologies in July 2007, resulting in the creation of the largest demand response company in the industry. In October 2007 it acquired Public Energy Solutions, LLC.

Smart Grid Products: Maingate® C&I is a cellular gateway designed to collect complex meter data and communicate the data wirelessly back to the utility. Maingate C&I operates with all major meters and legacy meter data collectors such as MV-90 and MV-90 xiComm. The gateway has many robust features such as over-the-air programmability and several communications modes that are designed to reduce costs and provide added flexibility to the utility.

Maingate® S4 is an underglass version of the Maingate C&I gateway installed in a Landis+Gyr S4/S4e meter. This plug-and-play solution can be retrofitted into existing S4/S4e meters in several simple steps, or is available pre-installed as well. The Maingate S4 Underglass gateway is fully integrated and warranted by the meter manufacturer. Maingate S4 communicates via CDMA or packet switched cellular, offering Packet Assembly/Disassembly and proprietary "MMS" mode communications protocols on both networks.

Comverge's Service Reconnect Device™ (SRD) is designed for whole house wireless service reconnect/disconnect functionality. Designed as an extended meter collar, the SRD is easy to install and offers optional external operation and diagnostics indicators. It that can be operated using an existing Load Management infrastructure.

Maingate® Multi is a meter data collection system designed for densely populated areas and buildings, such as sub-metered apartment complexes and urban centers. The system operates by collecting data locally via power line carrier and communicating the aggregated data back to a head-end system via a telephone line or cellular modem. In addition to collecting meter information, Maingate Multi also enables Demand Response and advanced pricing functionalities, achieved by integrating a "smart" SuperStat® thermostat into the system.

Comverge's PowerCAMP metering software enables utilities to utilize advanced communications protocols that enable additional communications cost reductions by reducing the size of the message transmitted. The software portal also enables utilities to remotely program and upgrade their Maingate gateways over the air.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: Comverge is a member of the ZigBee alliance.

Comverge and Landis+Gyr have jointly developed a Maingate S4e endpoint, a combination of Comverge's under-glass AMR Gateway and Landis+Gyr's S4e meter platform.



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Current Group 20420 Century Blvd. Germantown, MD 20874 Tel: (301) 944-2700 Fax: (301) 944-2701 Web site: http://www.currentgroup.com/ Overview: Founded in 2000, CURRENT is a privately-held company that offers an integrated solution that links advanced sensing technology, two-way high-speed communications, 24/7 monitoring and enterprise analysis software, and related services. The result is location-specific, real-time actionable data that can be used for a variety of purposes. CURRENT also provides fully-integrated communications service. It offers high-performance broadband services and home energy management services.

Smart Grid Products: CURRENT’s communication network is an IP-based, open standard, two-way high speed network that operates with low latency to facilitate multiple real time applications. Its advanced sensing equipment includes voltage and current sensors that are integrated into the equipment. Sensors are installed within the distribution system at each distribution transformer, allowing grid operators to understand the current status of a network’s health and operations at any time.

CURRENT Smart Grid™ software is designed to collect, store and analyze data, and provide automated notification and report generation directly to the engineer’s desktop. The software provides a single platform for the collection and warehousing of Smart Grid data. This web-based system includes a broad set of automated intelligent decision support tools for asset management, system protection, operation, planning, and customer service.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: CURRENT is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

CURRENT is also a member of the Xcel Energy-led Smart Grid Consortium.

CURRENT is a partner of Iberdrola’s Powerline Related Intelligent Metering Evolution (PRIME) project. PRIME is a partnership comprised of national and international industry players in the areas of metering, telecommunications, and silicon manufacturing. They are working together to define, test and develop an open, public and AMI.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Oncor Electric Delivery Company is purchasing CURRENT’s existing Smart Grid network in Dallas, Texas as well as additional equipment for approximately $90 million. This transaction, which involves the largest broadband-based Smart Grid deployment in the world, will enable Oncor to provide Smart Grid services to up to one-sixth of its service territory. The two companies have also entered into a multi-year agreement whereby CURRENT will license its Smart Grid software systems and sell additional products to Oncor that will allow Oncor the opportunity to expand the Smart Grid network to cover up to one-half of its service territory.

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Elster Integrated Solutions 208 S. Rogers Lane Raleigh, NC 27610 Tel: (919) 250-5405 Fax: (919) 250-5439 Web site: http://www.elster-eis.com/ Overview: Elster Integrated Solutions provides smart metering systems that enable utilities to implement energy and water conservation measures through demand response and smart grid initiatives, and smart home solutions. Elster assists gas, electricity, and water utilities in achieving greater operational efficiencies. More than 89 electric, water and gas utilities around the world have selected Elster to analyze, design, engineer, deploy and support their AMI deployments.

In June 2008 Elster acquired PowerOneData, a leader in wireless public network smart metering solutions.

Smart Grid Products: The EnergyAxis® System is an intelligent communication network capable of healing and registering itself. It uses a two-way controlled mesh solution that supports electric, gas and water utility applications. The system offers demand response, remote connect and disconnect, outage detection and restoration notification, theft and leak detection, time-of-use metering, prepayment options, and other functions.

Built with an open architecture, EnergyAxis provides application integration across multiple utility systems, opening the path for seamless business information transactions. Installing residential and commercial endpoint electricity devices along with the A3 ALPHA meter collector builds the AMI for the EnergyAxis controlled mesh network. EnergyAxis offers a choice of meter-based or non-meter network collectors, so deploying an EnergyAxis network can be as simple as installing meters. Meter collectors perform a dual function in the network: acting both as a meter and as a data collector for a group of other meters. Pole-mounted units offer collector functionality only. The collector provides the added functionality of managing, collecting and transmitting data from 1000+ meters within the sub-network. Within EnergyAxis, the collector is the interface between the EnergyAxis Metering Automation Server (MAS) and the metering endpoints within the mesh network.

EnergyAxis MAS manages the mesh network; receives, stores and reports data from the meters; and enables the utility to communicate with and manage any meter in its AMI network. MAS enables on-request meter reads, remote connect and disconnect of meters equipped with a service control switch, remote control of demand response devices at the customer premises. MAS is based on widely used industry standards such as web services, services oriented architecture and XML, offering straightforward integration with other utility systems, such as CIS, billing, meter data management, work order, and outage management, enterprise application integration, middleware, or meter data management system or meter data repository.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: Elster is a member of the GridWise Alliance and the ZigBee Alliance.

Elster Integrated Solutions also has a collaborative initiative with Landis+Gyr to provide interoperable AMI solutions. The alliance allows the two companies to develop an AMI endpoint that combines Elster’s EnergyAxis System mesh radio frequency technology with Landis+Gyr’s solid-state, residential FOCUS meter platform. Once completed, the endpoint will offer utilities using the EnergyAxis System a choice when considering metering options. Already in development, the EnergyAxis-enabled FOCUS endpoint is expected to be commercially available in the second half of 2008.

The AGI Initiative is a collaborative effort between utilities, Elster, and key technology partners to realize innovative AMI-based solutions for the smart grid of the future. This initiative allows Elster and its partners to offer standards-based solutions that enable utilities to improve the operation of their distribution network by leveraging their AMI investment. Partners include: ABB, Lindsey Manufacturing Group, FieldMetrics, and Sensorlink.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Dominion Virginia Power has chosen Elster’s EnergyAxis system for use in the utility’s energy conservation plans. In 2009, Dominion plans to deploy 200,000 smart meters as part of a large demonstration program of smart grid technology in urban and rural areas of its service territory. Dominion expects to improve customer service and business operations through advanced system control, real-time outage notification, and power quality monitoring. As part of this program, Dominion is deploying a number of smart thermostats with the EnergyAxis System for a residential critical peak pricing pilot this summer.

Elster has been awarded a contract from Metrix for a full-scale deployment of its EnergyAxis System in Auckland, New Zealand. The system will feature 300,000 REX smart meters built on a new meter platform conforming to IEC standards. Metrix will use the EnergyAxis System to collect interval usage data daily across its entire smart meter population allowing it to offer value-added services to retail electric providers and consumers.

Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited is expanding the EnergyAxis System it began testing in 2004. Toronto Hydro will deploy 400,000 EnergyAxis electricity meters for the first phase of the Ontario Smart Meter Initiative.

Elster has been awarded a contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) for the deployment of 800,000 smart meters for residential, commercial and industrial consumers. The APS smart metering program will use a broad range of Elster technologies including its EnergyAxis System to help its consumers monitor electrical usage, in real-time, and enable APS to identify and correct service interruptions more quickly while improving efficiencies in APS meter reading, billing and customer service operations.

Entergy has selected Elster’s EnergyAxis AMI solution for its 3,400 meter pilot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Entergy will use the pilot to test AMI functionality, identify functional benefits, and subsequently develop a long term strategy for deploying AMI.



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Eka Systems 20201 Century Boulevard Suite 250 Germantown, MD 20874 Tel: (301) 515-7118 Fax: (301) 515-4965 Web site: http://www.ekasystems.com/ Overview: Eka Systems manufactures and supplies self-managing smart networks that offer utilities unlimited monitoring and control of metering and data for electric, water, and gas. Employing open standards, EkaNet Smart Network is proven in installations around the world for large-scale utility metering and multi-tenant submetering. Organizations that are using Eka Systems technology include utility companies, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and systems integrators.

Smart Grid Products: The EkaNet Smart Network is comprised of the company’s highly secure, adaptive, infrastructure-grade wireless device networking technology for metering, submetering, and sub-SCADA automation. This technology can be used in the energy and water industry. EkaNet Smart Networks allow for bidirectional meter access and control capabilities that assist utilities in tracking and analyzing energy usage on a near real-time basis; facilitating demand response and load curtailment programs, detecting outages quickly and preventing leakage, and implementing many other advanced applications.

Working with equipment from major manufacturers such as, Elster, GE, Itron, Landis+Gyr, and others, EkaNet Wireless Electric Nodes build self-organizing wireless mesh networks for electric metering applications. Electric Nodes are truly plug-and-play and support a broad range of residential, commercial, and industrial meters - both domestically and internationally. EkaNet “under-the-glass” solutions are perfect for electric utility companies’ commercial and industrial as well as residential AMI/AMR, and sub-metering applications. Electric Nodes offer remote setup and configuration capabilities and provide access to all meter functions and communications capabilities. They enable reliable bidirectional communications and highly secure wireless mesh networking with all Nodes.

The EkaNet Wireless Gateway is a fully bidirectional gateway between the back office network and the local EkaNet wireless mesh network. The Gateway is compatible with standard communication protocols. The Gateway provides simple remote configuration of EkaNet wireless endpoints and is ideal for AMI/AMR energy monitoring, and automation applications.

The EkaNet Network Manager is an easy-to-use tool for setting up, configuring, and monitoring the status of a Smart Network and its Wireless Nodes. The Network Manager software enables seamless collection, end-to-end transport, and SQL database storage of data from the meters in the Smart Network. Network Manager also has a host of tools that manage wireless Node configuration and status as well as network security, data access privileges, and collection intervals.

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true benefits of AMI. Data Manager provides a feature-rich set of analytical tools and the ability for on-demand reads, manual and automated demand resets, and HHF file export. Its report delivery functionality assists in billing and enables active monitoring of energy use patterns along with energy & demand costs and operational risks.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Eka Systems is a member of Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition, UtilityAMI, OpenHAN, GridWise Alliance, GridWise Architectural Council, the Modern Grid Initiative, IntellGrid Architecture, IntellGrid, Utility Standards Board, and ZigBee Alliance.

Eka Systems has a partnership with Landis+Gyr to integrate its AMI residential FOCUS meter with the EkaNet Smart Network AMI solution.

Eka Systems and Elster Electricity have released the EKA-1100 Node for Elster Electricity’s A3 ALPHA meter which provides commercial and industrial metering functionality for EkaNet Smart Network users.

Eka Systems has a partnership with Energomera which will result in the integration of EkaNet with Energomera’s fifth generation of advanced residential and C&I energy meters.

Eka Systems is a member of eMeter’s IntegratedMDM Program which is designed to enable tighter cooperation and future interoperability between eMeter’s MDM and multiple AMI technologies.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Eka Systems has been selected by the City of San Marcos, Texas as the primary contractor for AMI project consisting of 30,000 C&I and residential electric and water meters. Meters will be enabled with EkaNet technology and will be able to provide more accurate and “on demand” readings, along with a host of other benefits.

Eka Systems has begun an AMI pilot project at Tampa Electric Company. The pilot will serve multi-family residential customer sites and will be used to help the utility evaluate operational improvements and wireless infrastructure performance in locations that are difficult to read.



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MainNet Communications PO Box 192 47 Hanessi'im St. Raanana 43583 Israel Tel.: +972 9 7700800 Fax: +972 9 7741327 Web site: http://www.mainnet-plc.com/ Overview: MainNet is a leading provider of BPL/PLC systems and solutions. Founded in 1999, the company capitalizes on its unique, patented BPL/PLC technology and operational expertise, while enjoying strong financial support from stable investors and shareholders. MainNet’s solutions enable Intelligent Broadband Access and Smart Grid applications to be implemented over any electrical network. It has the largest BPL/PLC installed base in the world.

Smart Grid Products: MainNet’s BPL/PLC technology and algorithms are both unique and proven by experiences in the field. MainNet offers fast network deployment and unit parameter settings, dynamic recognition of the network topology, automatic unit reconfiguration in the event of failure or in the even of equipment replacement, network management advanced functionalities, and other features, BPL unit history restoration, physical unit performance curves, alarm management, capabilities for allowing simple software upgrades, and other functionality for commercial and operational management of customer premises equipment.

MainNet’s intelligent plug n’ play, end-to-end PLUS™ solution combines several algorithms and mechanisms optimally adapted from wireless and wireline technology. It uses three additional communication methods (CSMA/CA, Smart Repetition and Access Unit Hopping), making it useful for managing and controlling data traffic over powerline grids.

Solo™ is MainNet’s end-to-end AMI platform. The Solo platform is a future-proof system that includes meters with under-the-glass meter interface modules; a secure, reliable, two-way BPL and wireless mesh communication network to the meter and home area network; and back-office software tools for AMI and a variety of other Smart Grid applications. The Solo hybrid communication network combines MainNet's field-proven Ethernet-based PLC system with an IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee RF Mesh network to ZigBee-enabled meters. This network also serves as the infrastructure for additional Smart Grid applications, including in-home load switches, thermostats and smart appliances; and reading of other utility meters. The communications network is based on open protocols and allows the utility to add applications by connecting any ZigBee-based or Ethernet- based device to the network, including DA switches, sensors and other devices from a wide variety of standards-based products. The Solo hybrid communication units are housed in MainNet's compact, lightweight, weatherproof, and UL certified module.

Multi Application, Grid Network and Utility Management (MAGNUM) software provides a unified portal for the management of Smart Grid and communications activities including Outage Notification and Management, Transformer Demand, Distribution Asset management and This tailor made software was designed to support real-time

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management of data that MainNet's Solo product line provides.

MainNet's Customer web portal provides customers with real time visibility into their energy usage from any web-based PC or Mobile phone. In addition the portal allows for the command and control of smart home devices in their home which are supported by MainNet's Solo product line.

A Web-based network management system (NMS) installed at the utility’s regional data center, NmPLUS monitors and manages the traffic on the network, and generates diagnostic information regarding the network units. The system also provides the basis for a variety of Smart Grid management applications. NmPLUS Direct is a simple network management application used for monitoring and testing of PLUS units. The application is based on a TCP/IP client running from any Windows-based PC, enabling direct connection to every MainNet PLUS unit on the BPL/PLC network

Key Smart Grid Alliances: MainNet is a member of the GridWise and ZigBee Alliances.

MainNet has also teamed up with Arkados to develop commercial hardware and software solutions for Smart Grid applications. The collaboration gives MainNet incentives to purchase 600,000 Arkados 200 Mb/s chipsets (HomePlug AV) over the next three years. MainNet’s layer 2 system will be combined with Arkados’ primary technology, allowing customers to access Internet-based services related to the grid.



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PowerGrid Communications 6676 N. Double Eagle Lane Meridian, ID 83642 Tel: (208) 841-8822 Fax: (208) 895-9818 Web site: http://www.powergridcomm.com/ Overview: Founded in 2006, PowerGrid Communications teams up with utilities to transform their legacy electric grids and infrastructures into Smart Grid-supporting network solutions. The company’s technical and operating expertise gives it the ability to offer a global platform for innovative services, enabling utilities to cost-effectively and reliably communicate with their customers to improve service, lower operating costs, and better manage energy supply and demand. PowerGrid Communications is dedicated to integrating utility metering systems, grid monitoring, outage detection, street lighting systems, and building control systems into an effective smart grid.

Smart Grid Products: PowerGrid offers its Smart Grid solution to utilities, enabling them to improve monitoring and management of all areas of their electric grid. PowerGrid’s BPL-Lite network architecture gives utilities greater control with outage detection, load management, and equipment status. The Smart Grid technology can heal itself and adapt to its environment.

The BPL-Lite architecture eliminates the need to use low voltage lines as transport into the building or residence. In lieu of these, PowerGrid installs ZigBee radio devices, which are used to communicate with specific end-points. In addition to being more cost-effective, this provides greater reliability.

PowerGrid’s GridEye utility grid management tool offers a web services interface that helps utilities balance the supply and demand of electricity. Both utilities and consumers can use the interface to monitor their energy consumption. GridEye provides integration for BPL nodes, AMR meters, ZigBee thermostats, relays, and other Smart Grid components.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: PowerGrid is working with Sojitz Corporation of America in developing the global BPL market. The companies will co-market in Mexico and Brazilian and will collaborate in the design, development, and sourcing of BPL as well as products to support the Smart Grid. They will identify and work together on potential BPL network projects.

Key Smart Grid Installations: PowerGrid Communications and Austin Energy have a pilot BPL demonstration project that would affect roughly 200 homes and businesses in Austin, Texas. The goal of the project is to demonstrate how Smart Grid applications could improve the efficiency and reliability of Austin Energy’s distribution grid and provide broadband services to customers. The utility used the GridEye system to test Grid Outage Reporting and Management, AMR for electric and water meters, Distribution Grid Automation, and other Smart Grid services. The project also incorporated the City of Austin’s 45Mb WiMesh network.

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order to demonstrate how Smart Grid applications could improve Entergy’s distribution grid reliability and efficiency. The project also aims to demonstrate the ability to provide broadband services to homes and businesses.



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Sensus Metering Systems 8601 Six Forks Road Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27615 Tel: (919) 845-4000 Web site: http://www.sensus.com/

Overview: The Sensus Metering Systems companies are providers of water, gas, heat and electric meters including comprehensive metering communications system solutions that include both AMR and AMI systems. Sensus Metering Systems traces its origins back more than 100 years, with the founding of National Meter Company in 1870 and the Pittsburgh Meter Company in 1886. Over the last fifteen years, as Sensus Metering Systems developed smart meters and AMR meter integration communication technology Sensus acquired Advanced Metering Data Systems (AMDS), a developer of radio transmitting and receiving equipment using licensed dedicated FCC spectrum, in July 2006. The acquisition of AMDS produced the Sensus FlexNet fixed base AMI system.

Smart Grid Products: The FlexNet AMI solution enables gas utilities to obtain hourly or daily reporting. It removes problems related to estimated, inaccurate, and curbside reads. It has two-way applications for electricity meters, including demand reads, kWh and actual voltage measurements, programmable read interval, low-voltage and breaker re-closure warnings, outage and restoration notification, and demand meter capabilities that can be accessed from the Internet.

FlexNet is designed for simple implementation. It includes three elements:

• Endpoints: electric, gas and water meters fitted with FlexNet radio modules. A handheld installation tool is used in order to assist in the field installation and verify registration to the network.

• Tower Gateway Basestation (TGB): using existing radio towers, antennas are installed at heights of 200’-650’, providing coverage of 75 to 300 sq. mi. The TGB includes a Linux computer that communicates to the RNI via modem

• Regional Network Interface (RNI): consists of modems and Linux computers with backup power. The RNI controls the TGB sites and keeps a 60-day log of metering data. It also includes an SQL database that generates reports for billing and other external system elements. Interfaces are available to a variety of metering databases: Sensus SiMS, Itron MV-90 and Enterprise Edition. Interface can also be performed via XML files or customized per the utility’s requirements.

FlexNet operates on 900 MHz FCC licensed exclusive-use (unshared) frequencies and is the only AMI system that is FCC approved to operate on unshared, primary-use licensed spectrum. The high power transmission, minimal interference of the licensed band and the advanced digital signal processing at the tower receiver enable a long-range (5-15 miles) of reliable communication between the meter endpoint and the base station tower site.

The iCon Meter is built with a backbone of reliability and precision. Developed with flexibility in mind, the iCon meter is compatible with multiple meter reading solutions, even technologies that may exist in the future. The open architecture and two-board

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design allow for this compatibility, allowing simple and cost effective integration with communication technologies The meter combines AMI communications and meter display on one board, making the meter much more reliable and efficient than AMR meters with expansion boards. Also, with the antenna on the display board, signal strength and overall RF performance are enhanced.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Sensus is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

Sensus and Elster have an agreement which will enable users to purchase A3 ALPHA meters directly from either Elster or Sensus with the FlexNet SmartPoint module installed during Elster’s meter manufacturing process.

Sensus and Landis+Gyr have entered into an agreement whereby Sensus will develop a FlexNet SmartPoint communications module for the Landis+Gyr FOCUS AL, AX and S4e meter platforms. The endpoint will be fully integrated by Landis+Gyr.

Sensus and Paging Network of Canada have an alliance to provide utility meter monitoring services over a Canadian Narrowband PCS licensed radio network. PageNet Canada will provide Sensus with ongoing network services, including turnkey system build-out, maintenance, repair and central monitoring. Sensus will also have access to over 350 tower locations throughout Canada where Sensus FlexNet AMI fixed network receivers will be installed.

Key Smart Grid Installations: BGE has selected the Sensus FlexNet AMI solution for both gas and electricity to support the utility’s pilot of an AMI initiative to enhance customer service and encourage energy efficiency. Focusing on the Baltimore City and Westminster areas, BGE will install 1,767 residential gas SmartPoint transceivers and 1,767 iCon electricity smart meters with SmartPoint transceivers. BGE’s AMI pilot will run from May through October 2008. Upon approval by the Maryland Public Service Commission, BGE plans to implement its AMI program to its 1.2 million gas and electric customers beginning in 2009.

Spanish Fork City, Utah is moving to a full deployment of FlexNet. Spanish Fork’s plans call for deployment of the system with 10,000 electric meters and 16,000 water meters in the next two years. Several thousand water and electric meters are already installed and operating. The FlexNet system provides Spanish Fork with two-way communications to iCon electric meters enabling automated billing, on demand reads and remote connect/disconnect services. The system is also delivering hourly meter readings, leak detection and tamper notification for culinary and pressurized irrigation water meters throughout the city’s 13 square mile service area.

Heber Light and Power Company (Utah) has selected the FlexNet AMI solution for deployment to more than 9,000 residential and commercial electric customers. The FlexNet system provides Heber with two-way communications to iCon electric meters, enabling automated billing, on demand reads, remote connect/disconnect services, outage/restore notification and time of use rates. FlexNet also establishes the platform for additional customer and systems-related benefits in the future.

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7,000 water customers in Groton and 3,000 electric customers in Bozrah, Connecticut.

Over the next five years, Southern Company subsidiaries will deploy FlexNet when they launch their new Smart Meter programs to customers across the Southern Company footprint. The FlexNet system will read meters remotely and provide new data that will lead to electricity pricing options for Southern Company customers. The Southern Company decision came after successful large scale trial deployments of FlexNet involving more than 100,000 customer locations covering over 3,000 square miles at Alabama Power and Georgia Power.

Portland General Electric (PGE) has entered into a definitive agreement for the purchase of the FlexNet AMI solution. PGE’s plans call for deployment of the system to approximately 850,000 residential and commercial electric customers between 2008 and 2010, subject to approval by the Oregon Public Utility Commission and PGE’s board of directors. The FlexNet system provides PGE with two-way communications to iCon electric meters enabling on demand reads, remote connect/disconnect services, outage verification and remote firmware upgrades. FlexNet also establishes the platform for additional customer and systems-related benefits in the future.

Alliant Energy has selected the FlexNet AMI system to implement AMI across its entire service territory, in the states of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. Subject to regulatory approvals, the deployment includes more than one million iCon smart electricity meters and 400,000 FlexNet AMI endpoints installed on existing natural gas meters.

Sensus has signed a contract with the Smart Metering Pilot Program and Potomac Electric Power Company to implement the FlexNet AMI system and deploy Smart Meters in Washington DC. The pilot program will test the response of residential customers to three different pricing options under one program. Meter data information will be provided using iCon meters. This $2 million pilot project will include up to 2,000 electric meters and support services.

Hawaiian Electric Company and Sensus Metering Systems will expand the pilot deployment of the FlexNet AMI solution for residential and commercial customers on the island of Oahu. Under the expansion plan, the pilot deployment will grow from approximately 500 to approximately 3000 installed meters in the Ocean Pointe Subdivision on Oahu.



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Tantalus 301–3480 Gilmore Way Burnaby, BC V5G 4Y1 Canada Tel: (604) 299-0458 Fax: (604) 451-4111 Web site: http://www.tantalus.com/ Overview: A private company founded in 1989, Tantalus designs, manufactures and markets two-way, real-time data communications networks to monitor and control electric, gas and water utilities. Its key product, the Tantalus Utility Network (TUNet), was launched in 2003. It is a communications backbone that helps utilities automate their distribution systems. Tantalus’ long-range wireless networks allow a utility’s numerous applications to be integrated. As a result, programs such as advanced metering, outage management, power quality monitoring, load control, and distribution automation become more cost-effective and practical for both urban and rural service areas.

Smart Grid Products: TUNet® is a two-way, real-time data network that provides communications for the Smart Grid. It was designed specifically for use by utilities. It can connect an entire distribution system, allowing utilities to achieve better levels of efficiency in operations, business, and customer service. It is a wireless network that combines a 220 MHz WAN with a 900 MHz LAN. The 220 MHz frequency is a licensed spectrum used by many utilities for SCADA applications; the 900 MHz frequency is an unlicensed spread spectrum shared by industrial and scientific applications.

TUNet is an event driven network. Each endpoint module (i.e., meter, transformer, capacitor) sends regular consumption and voltage reads (typically hourly or daily). If an anomaly occurs caused by an outage or voltage spike, the device instantly sends an alert to the operations center. Utility staff can also request data on-demand from individual or groups of TUNet meters.

Tantalus combines rugged hardware with a self-healing network to ensure outstanding reliability and end-to-end communications. Interoperability with equipment and applications from leading manufacturers enables a utility to continue to use its preferred meters. Tight adherence to industry standards ensures that TUNet data interfaces with billing, CIS, GIS, MDM and other utility applications. Ultimately, usage information can be presented to customers via a secure, private web page in order to close the loop between the utility and the people it serves.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Tantalus is a member of MultiSpeak, a software specification aimed at assisting small electric utilities automate their business processes and exchange data among software applications.

It is also a member of the Utilities Telecom Council, Utilimetrics, Power Technology Alliance, and Wireless Innovation Network BC.

Tantalus has a partnership with Badger Meter aimed at delivering a single, integrated communications system for electric, water and gas utilities. TUNet endpoint transceivers are connected with Badger’s ORION® water and gas metering products, which can then

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communicate via TUNet to a host server.

Tantalus is working with Energate to develop a Programmable Communicating Thermostat that allows utilities to interact with customers regarding energy conservation programs. Under the partnership, Energate’s smart thermostat technology is combined with a versatile user interface, real-time communications, and customer signaling to communicate with customers whose homes or businesses are connected via TUNet. The result is an effective demand response solution suite that can be implemented by itself or with a conventional TUNet AMI system.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Pulaski Electric System (PES) has selected TUNet for its AMI communications system, which is at the heart of its Smart Grid program. PES is an electric utility located in southern Tennessee that serves 15,000 electric customers and 5,000 Fiber-to-the-Home customers of PES Energize. The Tantalus communications system gives Pulaski the option to use either its existing high-speed fiber network or 220 MHz RF for two-way, real-time data transport.

Whitewater Valley REMC has selected TUNet as the communications network to support its AMI and Smart Grid application activities. Whitewater Valley field tested meters equipped with TUNet and saw that the technology was able to provide two-way, real-time communications capability even in the most remote terrain.

Chatham-Kent Hydro has received approval from the Ontario Ministry of Energy to move forward with full deployment of a TUNet smart metering solution. The project calls for all 32,000 residential and C&I customers to be activated by December 2007. The decision follows an 18-month pilot project that resulted in significant operational improvements and identified potential energy reductions among 1200 customer participants.

Northeastern REMC is deploying advanced metering capabilities to all of its 26,000 meters, with complete implementation expected to occur by the end of 2010. The company has chosen TUNet to support AMI.



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Trilliant Networks 1100 Island Drive Redwood City, CA 94065 Tel: (650) 204-5050 Fax: (650) 508-8096 Web site: http://www.trilliantnetworks.com/ Overview: Trilliant provides solutions for AMI, demand response, and electric grid management, as well as installation, program management and meter revenue cycle services. The company has over 20 years of experience delivering meter communications solutions and more than 100 utility customers.

In October 2007 Trilliant merged operations with OZZ Corporation, a provider of metering and energy management services to North American electric and gas utility markets.

Smart Grid Products: Trilliant’s SecureMesh™ Network, based on IEEE 802.15.4, provides the full capability for monitoring, reporting and remote control required to support programs such as time-of-use and dynamic pricing, demand response, prepayment, direct load control and distribution grid monitoring. The SecureMesh Network supports home area network (HAN) solutions including remote appliance controllers, programmable communicating thermostats, and in-home displays. The SecureMesh solution supports major WAN networks and backhaul platforms, including CDMA/1xRTT, Ethernet, Fiber, GSM/GPRS, iDEN, WiFi, WiMAX, CATV and Canopy backhaul solutions.

Trilliant has developed SecureMesh Micro Access Portal technology to provide an interconnection between a SecureMesh Network and a ZigBee-enabled HAN. The ZigBee-based technology will act as a full-function device that can be embedded into a wide-range of utility owned or managed components including meters, smart thermostats, in-home displays, remote appliance controller switches, or outdoor devices to provide secure two-way communications and control.

The MeshGate™ Gateway coordinates information within the SecureMesh network. It collects and filters data obtained from groups of MeshReader-enabled meters and shared wide area network resources, making communication more cost-effective and efficient.

MeshReader™ communications modules can automatically establish alternative MeshGate collector relationships based on application performance settings to ensure timely and secure delivery of data. MeshGate devices act as self-organizing conduits to multiple wide area network resources.

The SecureMesh network is end-to-end managed by the SerViewCom™

communications server, a smart MDMS. It enables the operation of large scale mesh network deployments, providing centralized and over the air element and mesh management functionality. It has a feature rich web interface capable of collecting and displaying from numerous network elements including, electric, water and gas meters.

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standards-compliant two-way advanced meter communications products can be used for commercial electric meters and advanced gas meter devices. They provide time-sensitive energy data at almost any time of the day – thus they can enable utilities to use real-time pricing schemes, demand response programs, and other applications.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Trilliant is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

It has also entered into an alliance agreement with Motorola in which it will provide Motorola’s primary solution for advanced metering, while Motorola will promote Trilliant’s AMI communications modules that feature iDEN®-based digital cellular technology. Motorola and Trilliant offer support for four of the major energy meter brands, including Elster A3 Alpha, GE kV2c+, Itron SENTINEL, and Landis+Gyr S4 families of meters. AMI solutions for these meters are available now and use Trilliant CellReader Communications on Motorola’s private Harmony™ and iDEN communications networks and on Sprint/Nextel public iDEN networks.

Major meter manufacturers such as Landis+Gyr, General Electric, Sensus, and Itron have partnered with Trilliant and now offer factory integration of Trilliant’s communications modules.

Trilliant is also partners with AirDesk, alltell wireless, Bell Mobility, Cingular Wireless, Elster, eMeter, Sprint, Telnus Mobility, and Verizon.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Trilliant is providing Hydro One, an electric delivery company in Ontario, with a 2.4 GHz RF mesh intelligent communications infrastructure, head-end software applications, and 1.3 million smart meters that Hydro One will install. These applications will become the backbone of Hydro One’s AMI system.

Trilliant and Landis+Gyr are deploying AMI for three utility companies in Ontario. Over 350,000 residential smart meters will be deployed as part of these activities. The companies are Hydro One, Hydro One Brampton, and Milton Hydro Distribution.

Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited has selected Trilliant to provide AMI smart suite-metering equipment, supplies and services for residential multi-unit buildings. Suite metering involves measuring the electricity use of individual suites in multi-occupant buildings and allows accountability for each suite’s own costs.

Jamaica Public Service Company has selected Trilliant to provide a complete AMI solution needed to support approximately 6,000 priority C&I customers across the island. The solution provided by Trilliant will support advance capabilities such as real-time reporting of power quality events. The implementation will consist of the Trilliant SerViewCom Data Acquisition and Processing Platform in combination with CellReader Advanced Communications Modules integrated with Itron SENTINEL meters

Trilliant will supply its AMI Mesh Network solution for the Responsive Pricing and Smart Meter pilot program to be run by Louisville Gas and Electric. Louisville will open the program to 2000 residential and small commercial volunteer customers encompassing gas and electric metering, energy conservation tools and in-premise displays.



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Meter Data Management System Vendors

Aclara Software 16 Laurel Avenue Wellesley, MA 02481 Phone: (781) 694-3300 Fax: (781) 694-3200 Web site: http://www.aclaratech.com/

Overview: Aclara is a subsidiary of ESCO, a supplier of special purpose utility solutions for electric, gas, and water utilities, including hardware and software to support advanced metering applications and fully automated intelligent instrumentation. The Aclara brand represents leading fixed-network AMI/AMR technologies and MDM software serving water, gas, and electric utilities worldwide. It is composed of DCSI (TWACS®), Hexagram, Inc. (STAR® Network), and Nexus Energy Software (Energy Vision and ENERGYprism). These three companies operate as Aclara Power-Line Systems Inc., Aclara RF Systems Inc., and Aclara Software Inc.

Smart Grid Products: Energy Vision delivers a broad set of functionality that leverages meter and customer data to address key issues in energy service planning and delivery. Building upon a flexible meter and customer data repository and a set of powerful algorithms that create, analyze and aggregate load profile information, Energy Vision supports load and revenue forecasting, complex billing, wholesale and retail settlement, distribution and transmission planning, and revenue protection. Energy Vision is a browser-based application, providing users with anytime, anywhere access. It utilizes a 3-tier architecture that supports maintainability and scalability, and offers a flexible environment aimed at the business user.

Aclara Software applications begin with an Oracle-based data repository underlying all application modules. Meter Vision performs the critical functions of data integration, validation, estimation and editing (VEE) and data storage and management. Meter Vision has an open, accessible, and versatile architecture, maintains a complete audit trail, and leverages Oracle to provide exceptional data management and transactional performance for even the largest applications. Meter Vision can be configured to pull in, normalize, validate, and store data from any number of systems, including CIS, SCADA, GIS, load research, load schedule systems, weather, and other legacy and middleware systems, creating a central data repository.

Load Vision is a robust load forecasting and settlement system that uses sophisticated, statistically based profiling methodologies to generate highly accurate interval load forecasts and backcasts, without the need for ubiquitous interval metering.

Bill Vision is a reliable, automated, highly scalable system for generating accurate bill-ready billing data, invoices, settlement statements, and transaction reports. Bill Vision can quickly represent any rate with no programming. It’s easy-to-use, graphical rate designer and flexible data model provides direct control over billing calculations, reducing the time it takes to create rates and generate bills.

Wire Vision delivers accurate measurement of network utilization for downstream assets

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at and below the substation level. Wire Vision leverages all available interval data from AMI or other sources. Where such data are not available, Wire Vision applies sophisticated, proven load profiling and aggregation techniques to provide accurate estimates of hourly usage for any point on the network, from substation to transformer.

Revenue Vision provides a powerful analytic tool to mine large quantities of meter information stored in the MDM Repository to generate a list of accounts representing lost revenue due to energy theft, meter malfunction or meter installation errors. Suspect accounts or meters that require further field investigation are managed and tracked within Revenue Vision.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Nexus Energy Software (now Aclara Software) was chosen to provide its Meter Vision

meter data repository along with some additional

functionality to support ATCO Electric’s load profiling needs. ATCO Electric is implementing an MDM solution to house its interval meter customer data and enable ATCO Electric to manage the data for approximately 1,500 interval meters for its large industrial customers. This application will provide ATCO Electric with a broad set of functionality that leverages meter and customer data to address key issues in energy service planning and delivery. The application will perform ATCO Electric’s critical functions of data integration, VEE and data storage and management.

PPL Electric Utilities implemented the nation’s first large-scale hourly MDMS to obtain hourly usage data for its entire customer base of about 1.4 million homes and businesses. The MDMS was developed and installed by Nexus Energy Software (now Aclara Software) and provides data validation, process management, storage, and analysis of hourly meter readings.



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Ecologic Analytics Two Appletree Square 8011 34th Avenue South Suite 205 Bloomington, MN 55425 Tel: (952) 843-6000 Fax: (612) 395-5535 Web site: http://www.ecologicanalytics.com/ Overview: Founded in 2000, Ecologic Analytics (formerly WACS, LLC) supplies MDMS solutions, along with technologies to support decision management for utilities. It helps utilities transform the enormous amount of AMI-related data into meaningful information that the whole organization can use to make strategic business decisions. Ecologic Analytics validates energy and water consumption data from all leading AMI vendors. Ecologic Analytics is “AMI-neutral,” meaning that it can provide utilities with unbiased software recommendations, while allowing utilities to use the company’s AMI systems.

Smart Grid Products: The Ecologic Analytics MDMS is designed to be integrated with various AMI systems and customer information systems. It is made of modular engines that deliver important data to all types of business users. The system as a whole consolidates multiple streams of data into a single flow of information that can be easily managed. Unified by the Navigator, a single user interface, all information stakeholders within the enterprise can access the entire solution, which consists of 12 integrated modules.

The Meter Data Repository provides the foundation to publish and distribute quality AMI data across the utility enterprise. A single repository that ensures a consistent source for validated usage and operational data, supporting a variety of business functions and systems.

The Gateways decrease integration costs by standardizing the loading of AMI data from any source. These standard interfaces retrieve and load meter readings, alerts and flags, notifications, and outage event data from any AMI vendor or other meter reading source.

The Data Synchronization Engine ensures the integrity and accuracy of the data by automatically synchronizing core customer and account information as well as point-of-delivery data stored in the Meter Data Repository with master utility databases.

WAVE™ ensures that every meter has appropriate consumption information required for business processes such as billing. This automated validation engine applies complex, TOU), regardless of deployed AMI technology.

iWAVE™ ensures that meters collecting interval data have appropriate data required for business processes such as billing and load research. This automated validation engine applies complex, rule-based VEE algorithms which certify interval meter data (at any interval size) regardless of deployed AMI technology.

The Network Performance Module & Reporting Engine identifies irregular alerts, consumption, alarms, and other abnormal activity and proactively generates the

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necessary reports, service orders, or any user defined actions, resulting in operational efficiencies.

The Meter Read Manager discovers and returns, using rules-based business logic, the best available billing determinants, readings, or usage for any number of given devices, locations or accounts for various requested purposes (i.e. billing, tenant change, etc).

The Meter Reading Analytics use advanced algorithms to estimate and validate historical usage of similar customers defined by rate, geography, or other variables to support more accurate estimates when data is missing.

The Service Order Engine automates the generation of service orders for AMI devices and dispatches the orders to the field order management system for dispatch. Further monitors the progress of the order, processes updates, and closes the orders.

The Real Time Outage Validation and Restoration Engine displays real-time, verified outage events and restoration information using proprietary business logic. OVE/RE provides cleansed data that enables utilities to integrate meter data with outage management systems for systematic responses to unforeseen events.

The On-Demand Engine intelligently sends real-time requests for information to the appropriate AMI technology, enabling rapid access to energy usage data for critical decisions. Examples that are supported include on-demand reads, power status checks, and remote connects or disconnects.

The Virtual Metering & Aggregation Engine processes, aggregates and frames data into larger intervals or time-of-use periods to fulfill various billing determinant requirements for given rates and tariffs. Also, allows the summarization or aggregation of usage from any number of meters from various specified accounts to allow for flexible billing analysis and capacity planning.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Ecologic Analytics has partnered with Landis+Gyr Holdings to develop an integrated, end-to-end solution for AMI and MDMS. It is also a member and sponsor of AMI MDM, a forum aimed at bringing about the successful deployment of advanced metering and meter data management.

Key Smart Grid Installations: PG&E has installed the Ecologic Analytics MDMS in its production environment. The MDMS consolidated, validated, estimated, edited, and provided AMI data to PG&E, which the utility then used to bill a small number of its customers. The MDMS manages meter readings and usage data from all meters, and presents this information to the utility.



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eMeter 2215 Bridgepointe Parkway San Mateo, CA 94404 Tel: (650) 227-7770 Fax: (650) 227-7771 Web site: http://www.emeter.com/ Overview: With 23 million meters under contract, eMeter Corporation provides software that enables electric, gas, and water utilities to realize the full benefits of their Advanced Metering and Smart Grid initiatives.

Smart Grid Products: EnergyIP™, eMeter's enterprise MDM software platform, offers a full suite of MDM functionality, an Integration Platform for linking a variety of AMI systems to multiple utility information systems, and Business Process Management Tools specializing in AMI implementation, operations, and maintenance.

AMI application modules perform tasks such as data validation and billing determinant calculation and provide comprehensive process automation, monitoring, reporting, and exception management for all activities associated with AMR deployment and operations. Metered usage and AMI management data repositories store and manage AMI data and the complex asset and service relationships that make data reliable and useful.

EnergyIP’s patent-pending, real-time messaging bus links databases, systems, and applications—leading to unequalled flexibility, reliability, and scalability. Interface adapters integrate EnergyIP with utility legacy systems. Data collection adapters support any meter, vendor, or system.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: eMeter has partnered with Oracle, IBM, and Tibco, which provide technology and integration for its enterprise application software. It also has alliances with system integrators, including Capgemini, IBM, Enspiria Solutions, Siemens, DBResults, Mincom, SAP, Sun Microsystems, LogicaCMG, nGenera, and Accenture.

eMeter’s IntegratedMDM Program is an alliance with market-leading AMI companies Cellnet+Hunt, CURRENT Technologies, Eka Systems, Elster Group, Sensus Metering, and Trilliant. The purpose of IntegratedMDM is to enable tighter cooperation and future interoperability between its MDM software and multiple AMI technologies.

eMeter and Siemens have a global, joint development and supply agreement for the sale and implementation of eMeter's EnergyIP MDM software. Siemens will provide a global EnergyIP sales and delivery channel including installation, configuration, and first line support. eMeter will support Siemens' sales providing EnergyIP software, globalization, and advanced support.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Oncor Electric Delivery has selected EnergyIP as the foundation for constructing and integrating its AMI. EnergyIP’s automated processes and applications are being used to install, operate, and maintain Oncor’s AMI and related data collection technologies, including BPL. The platform is also being used to automate

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Oncor’s service order management and field deployment processes.

The Anaheim Public Utilities Department has decided to implement EnergyIP. EnergyIP will process, analyze, and store data for Anaheim’s 160,000 electric and water meters as it implements an advanced metering information system

Alliant Energy has selected EnergyIP software to help manage data and operations for the utility’s AMI project. Alliant intends to deploy 1.1 million advanced meters for electric customers and 400,000 advanced natural gas meters by 2011. The eMeter platform will be integrated into Interstate Power and Light, Wisconsin Power and Light, and other legacy systems.

Southern California Edison has selected EnergyIP software for use in managing data for its AMI project - Edison SmartConnect. SCE plans to deploy AMI meters to 5.3 million customers over five years.

CenterPoint Energy is adding significant new functionality to its initial installation of EnergyIP software. The company will expand its use of EnergyIP as it takes another step toward its vision of an Intelligent Grid. CenterPoint Energy has purchased EnergyIP AMI business process management applications for connect/disconnect automation, deployment planning & logistics, meter data analysis & reporting, field service, and outage & restoration management.

eMeter’s EnergyIP solution has been selected for a central Meter Data Management and Repository (MDM/R) service in support of the Ontario government’s Smart Metering Initiative. It will provide MDM services to the Ontario electricity industry, supporting the province’s program to install a smart electricity meter in 800,000 homes and small businesses by 2007 and throughout Ontario by 2010.



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Energy ICT Theodoor Sevenslaan 104A B-8500 Kortrijk Belgium Tel: +32 (0)56 245 690 Fax: +32 (0)56 245 699 Web site: http://www.energyict.com/ Overview: EnergyICT is a privately held company that provides the energy industry with Information Technology solutions, Communications Technology solutions, and energy data and meter data management services. It also provides hardware and software products to utilities, industrial customers, and energy suppliers.

Smart Grid Products: EnergyICT’s IT solutions center on the EIServer® software platform. This platform was designed specifically to collect, store, and process energy consumption data so that accurate information can be produced. EIServer uses complex calculation algorithms and specific modules to satisfy the various needs of customers. VEE, peak-shaving, forecasting, allocation, reconciliation, and complex billing are a few of the platform’s functionalities.

Energy consumption data can be automatically and remotely collected via numerous communication technologies. EnergyICT works to develop data loggers, data concentrators, or other communication hardware as part of its Communications Technology solutions.

EnergyICT offers products specifically related to AMI, including the EpIO – an easy-to-install metering and communication device that can be connected to an energy meter. It acts as an end point, being the final node before the meter. The EpIO collects the metered data and wirelessly transmits it back to a nearby concentrator. The device does not require external power or additional cabling. It utilizes mesh-networking technology and acts as a signal amplifier, extending its range to medium distance.

The RTU+ V6 GRIDS is a concentrator that stores, processes, and transmits EpIO data over long distances using technologies such as LAN over GSM/GPRS to RS485. The concentrator supports two-way communication and is very cost-effective.

The WebRTU Z2 can be used for homes or businesses in isolated areas, where a powerful concentrator like the RTU+ V6 GRIDS is unnecessary. The WebRTU Z2 can handle a smaller number of EpIO wireless signals, while transmitting the data over greater distances.

EIServer EDM has an AMI module that enables meter data to be collected efficiently, stored, and processed through VEE. EIServer EDM uses a high-performance Oracle database, allowing data for millions of meters to be effectively managed.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: EnergyICT has formed partnerships with Accenture, Atos Origin, and CapGemini. It has also established its own Certified Partner Program which promotes increased sales and support services of energy data solutions and MDMS for today's liberalized international energy markets. Certified Partners receive support in

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marketing, pre-sales, sales, and customer support.

Key Smart Grid Installations: The Dutch Ministry of Economics, along with the Netherlands’ energy sector, are working to create a new market model in which all residential gas and electricity meters are replaced with smart meters. Grid operators are required to deploy smart meters on a widespread basis beginning in 2008. In response, the Dutch multi-utility group Essent sought a partner to implement an AMI/AMR project. EnergyICT proposed its EIServer software for this project, and the solution was eventually chosen. The project began in January 2008 and is expected to begin operating by the end of 2008. This project is the Essent Network’s first large smart metering project.



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Görlitz AG Gewerbepark Nord August-Thyssen-Straße 32 D-56070 Koblenz Germany Tel: +49 (0)261-9285-0 Fax: +49 (0)261-9285-190 Web site: http://www.goerlitz.com/

Overview: GÖRLITZ AG is one of the leading European Metering System suppliers, offering a complete portfolio for meter data collection software, hardware, system integration and project management for over 30 years. GÖRLITZ metering systems are used in more than 400 utility and 800 industrial projects in Europe. This includes installations at most of the 10 largest utilities such as ENEL, RWE, EON, VATTENFALL, ATEL or ESSENT. GÖRLITZ's systems include a wide platform of communication devices for meters cover GSM, GPRS/SMS, PSTN, ISDN, Ethernet and low voltage and mid voltage power line communications.

Smart Grid Products: EMETRION meters are solid state measurement devices with a wide bandwidth for both residential and C&I customers. They support automatic collection of metering data as EMETRION net and EMETRION plus can communicate over PLC, Bluetooth®, ZigBee or WLAN.

The EDW3000 metering system features a multitude of functions to control one-off and recurring reading procedures for meters in the field. It can perform remote reconnect/disconnect, limit power, and monitor/execute switching operations and changes. The EDW3000 controls configuration of the grid infrastructure and maps the tariff structure in the meter. It also offers a comprehensive platform to control energy data for integrity and plausibility. These checks can be made for each measuring point either by comparing a default minimum/maximum or the historical values, or by spanning the metering points, e.g. with balancing and calculating losses.

The EDW3000 features a module to provide the data over a Web server so that energy customers or partners can view it online and download load profiles and register data. Internal Internet users have the ability to commission intermediate readings or switching operations.

The DC-1000 data concentrator is the functional link between the meters and the EDW3000 metering system. The data concentrator organizes the local management of electricity meters with the PLC network and the remote connection to the control station - either periodically for reading values or immediately when tampering is detected or for disconnect commands. The DC-1000 enables the management of a maximum of 1,024 EMETRION net electricity meters. It is an integral component in the infrastructure comprising meter technology, distribution management and value-added services; the DC-1000 manages, supervises and controls the associated devices.

Skalar is a communication system, equipped with state of the art IP technology and loadable software modules. It enables data transmission to any destination system over GSM/GPRS, PSTN, ISDN or Ethernet. The pulse module PRM62 is an extension module for Skalar. It serves as a load profile collector and is wired with fixed quantity

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pulses.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: GÖRLITZ AG and HYDROMETER GmbH have signed a strategic partnership in smart metering applications and solutions. The companies will cooperate to develop a high-performance system for the automated collection of metering data.

GÖRLITZ AG and Echelon Corporation have signed an agreement under which GÖRLITZ will base its system offering for the residential metering market on Echelon’s NES system.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Danish utility company EnergiMidt has awarded a contract for 170,000 smart meters to be deployed in its supply area. Echelon NES will be used for the smart meters and the control software for the project will be from GÖRLITZ AG. Automatic acquisition, plausibility check, distribution of the metering data will be undertaken by the EDW3000 Metering System.

GÖRLITZ has been contracted to install a nationwide meter data monitoring system in Turkey. GÖRLITZ will set up metering points and carry out the necessary installations for the Turkish high-voltage grid operator TEIAS. The data transmission will be undertaken by the Skalar, an intelligent communication platform developed by GÖRLITZ. The latest version of the energy data management system EDW3000 together with the EDW collector module will be employed at the control station.

The largest consumer-owned energy company in Denmark, SEAS-NVE, is implementing intelligent technology to read the meters for its 325,000 customers. As the central metering system, the EDW3000 from GÖRLITZ AG will perform the automatic retrieval, verification, and distribution of consumption data.



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Itron 2111 N Molter Road Liberty Lake, WA 99019 Tel: (800) 635-5461 Web site: http://www.itron.com/ Overview: Itron provides products and services that help the energy and water industries. Almost 3,000 utilities around the world use Itron’s technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Itron provides solutions for electricity metering, meter data collection, energy information management, demand response, load forecasting, analysis and consulting services, distribution system design and optimization, web-based workforce automation, and enterprise and residential energy management. Itron Inc. is comprised of Itron in North America and Actaris outside of North America.

Smart Grid Products: OpenWay by Itron is a standards-based, open-architecture smart metering solution that features two-way wireless communication to state-of-the-art electricity meters at homes and small businesses. OpenWay is designed to meet a broad set of customer energy management requirements, such as real-time energy communication to thermostats, information displays and energy smart appliances using ZigBee technology.

Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (IEE MDM) is an enterprise-wide data management solution for interval, register and event data for residential and C&I customers. It is a scalable, open-architecture system that manages data from many different collection systems and provides secure, accurate, reliable data to a wide array of billing and analysis systems. IEE MDM seamlessly combines meter data from multiple collection systems into a single data repository through its ability to interface with a wide array of applications and systems. Two database platforms are available to meet business and technology needs: Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. IEE easily interfaces to existing billing systems and analysis tools.

MV-90 xi is a multi-vendor MDMS for collecting and managing data from the complex metering devices typically used for large commercial and industrial customers. In addition to its unparalleled data collection capabilities, MV-90 xi offers powerful data management and analysis tools that ensure data integrity and process consistency. It can be used as a data collection engine that interfaces to existing data management and analysis tools, or as an end-to-end interval data management solution.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Itron is a member of the GridWise Alliance. It has also formed partnerships with Eka Systems, Comverge, and Trilliant.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Itron has reached an agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric to replace or upgrade the utility’s 2.3 million electric and gas meters with Itron OpenWay technology for its smart meter initiative. Itron will provide its OpenWay electric meters and gas modules and IEE MDM software, as well as implementation, project management and installation services for the utility’s smart meter project. The agreement must be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission.

Tucson Electric Power will deploy IEE MDM to support its advanced metering initiatives

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by centralizing the management of its meter data and enhancing its billing and other critical business processes. IEE MDM will support the gradual deployment of Itron advanced metering solutions, which includes over 100,000 CENTRON meters and Itron’s ChoiceConnect™ Fixed Network, while maintaining current business practices and minimizing the impact on upstream systems. Tucson will use IEE MDM to support programs that could be used to shift energy demand to off-peak hours, thus deferring the cost of new generation. The software allows the utility to expand the number of C&I customers who could use time-based rates. It also will help the utility enhance its TOU offerings for residential customers in early 2009.

Itron will provide Victoria’s Powercor and CitiPower and South Australia’s ETSA Utilities with MDM and data analysis software. Together, the three utilities serve more than 1.7 million energy customers throughout Australia. The agreement, which will introduce Itron’s Enterprise Edition to the three utilities, will assist Powercor and CitiPower in meeting key government-mandated metering regulations and will also enhance conservation efforts within their respective service areas. In particular, Victoria has a mandate that requires utilities to roll out smart meters to all customers within the state and to take steps to support conservation and energy efficiency goals.

Itron has a contract with Pepco Holdings to deliver its IEE MDM solution to support PEPCO’s high-volume data management needs associated with its AMI deployment. In addition, PEPCO will deploy Itron Revenue Protection Suite and Curtailment Manager to improve revenue assurance and peak load management capabilities. Both software products run on Itron’s IEE platform.



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Energy Management and Control Technology Vendors

Cannon Technologies 505 Highway 169 North Suite 1200 Minneapolis, MN 55441 Tel: (763) 595-7777 Fax: (763) 543-7777 Web site: http://www.cannontech.com/ Overview: Cannon Technologies is a subsidiary of Cooper Power Systems that provides electric utilities with software for load management and DA. Cooper Power Systems is a global manufacturer of world-class power delivery and reliability solutions for the electrical and industrial markets. Through its Energy Automation Solutions group, it is also a leading provider of software, communications and integration solutions that enable customers to increase productivity, improve system reliability, and reduce costs.

Smart Grid Products: Cannon PLC is a fixed network providing cost-effective two-way on-demand communication for electric distribution systems. Featuring solid state single-phase meters from Itron and Sensus, Cannon has added an internal board which stores TOU and load profile data, voltage profile and min/max, outage time/date/duration, and provides an on-demand read in around 4-6 seconds round trip. Cannon also offers an external digital metering modem that provides a bi-directional digital interface to popular polyphase meters including the GE kV series, Elster Alpha series, and the Landis+Gyr S4. It expects to include the Schlumberger Sentinel meter interface as well - all inside a single multi-protocol, multi-voltage box. Other products for the Cannon PLC fixed network include capacitor controllers, load management receivers, and micro-RTUs. The fixed network infrastructure is easily mounted in substations. Finally, Cannon PLC offers a 200 amp service disconnect meter for utilities with collection or transient occupant problems. The unit can optionally function in current-limiting mode for areas with a winter time moratorium on disconnects.

Cannon’s Load Response Center is a complete demand response platform, encompassing everything from direct control to price responsive smart thermostats to commercial/industrial demand bidding. Users can call for immediate mass market load reductions or day-ahead C&I curtailment from a single Web-based interface. Cannon offers both direct control receivers (LCR series), and the ExpressStat® utility-controlled smart thermostat for cost-effective mass market “active control” applications. LCRs control loads directly and thermostats control HVAC equipment through temperature setpoint changes. The LCR series units feature multiple independent relays, with lots of configurability. The TrueCycle algorithm insures the maximum level of central air conditioner control based on usage patterns of the individual cooling system. Optional “under-frequency control” helps maintain system reliability. Cannon’s Load Response Center application allows program participants to manage program options via the Internet or toll free telephone interactive voice response.

Cannon’s Yukon Advanced Energy Services Platform is a powerful, scalable, real-time multi-tasking platform using the industry-standard combination of Microsoft Windows 2000 and an SQL database. Programmed from the ground up with the latest industry-

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standard, portable tools, Yukon is sold as a stand-alone Master Station, or an enterprise-wide application server, or as a platform for providing ASP services to other energy providers. A number of applications are available on the Platform.

The Meter Data Collection Server automatically gathers information from digital and pulse-based metering; storing and distributing data to consumers, planners, or to other applications and systems. Popular digital meters are supported using native protocols over a variety of communication paths. The server features real-time interval data aggregation and collection of power quantities (where available).

The Demand Response Server features basic load management functionality accomplished using load control receivers and thermostats. Commercial/industrial notification is available using email, paging, automated phone call, or load control receivers with optional Web acknowledgement.

The Remote Genset Manager remotely dispatches customer-owned stand-by generation for demand curtailment, voltage support, asset protection, and reliability optimization. The wide array of Yukon communication and interface options allow utilities to choose the most cost-effective aggregation & control strategy for each genset.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Cannon Technologies has partnered with Itron to enhance Itron’s wireless Fixed Network technology with Cannon’s PLC technology. As a result, utility customers can receive an integrated advanced metering solution. Under the partnership agreement, Itron can offer investor owned utilities Cannon’s PLC technology to remotely read Itron CENTRON solid-state meters in lower-density service areas. Cannon is installing its PLC technology in Itron’s CENTRON meter in the municipal and cooperative markets.

IDACOMM and Cannon Technologies have a strategic partnership to integrate Cannon’s AMR and power distribution automation technologies into BPL networks developed by IDACOMM.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Cooper Power Systems has reached agreement with Southern Pine Electric Power Association to provide the utility with the company’s PLC AMI solution. Southern Pine has more than 64,000 meters throughout its service territory spanning 11 counties in south central Mississippi. Southern Pine will utilize the Yukon Advanced Energy Services Platform to locate outages expeditiously, offer its members flexible rates, automate the utility’s distribution assets, increase operational efficiencies, and improve the disconnect/reconnect procedures.

Cowlitz County Public Utility District will fully implement the Cannon PLC AMI solution. Once complete Cowlitz will have deployed nearly 48,000 meters and will become the first large-scale deployment of the Cannon AMI solution in Washington state. Cowlitz plans to integrate the Yukon Advanced Energy Services Platform with customer information, outage management and geographic information systems. In addition to Cowlitz PUD, 12 other utilities recently selected the Cannon AMI solution and Yukon Advanced Energy Services Platform as their complete AMI solution. These include Eastern Iowa Light and Power, Wilton, IA; Empire Electric Association, Cortez, CO; Perennial Public Power District, York, NE; Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Lancaster, MO; Wheat Belt Public Power District, Sidney, NE; Boone REMC, Lebanon, IN; BARC



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Electric Cooperative, Millboro, VA; Heartland Power Cooperative, Thompson, IA; Butler Public Power District, David City, NE; Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative, Anamosa, IA; North East Mississippi Electric Power Association, Oxford, MS; and HomeWorks Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Portland, MI.

Lake Country Power of Grand Rapids, Minnesota has successfully deployed a full two-way AMI to its entire service territory covering more than 10,000 square miles in northern Minnesota. The Cannon AMI system gives Lake Country the ability to read meters on demand, improve cash flow, reduce customer complaints, decrease issue resolution time, verify outages and restoration real-time, and monitor substation equipment.



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Comverge 120 Eagle Rock Avenue Suite 190 East Hanover, NJ 07936 Tel: (888) 565-5525 Fax: (973) 884-3504 Web site: http://www.comverge.com/ Overview: Comverge is a clean energy company that offers demand response and pay-for-performance programs to help meet peak energy challenges. It was founded as a merger of utility technology groups from Scientific Atlanta, Lucent/Bell Labs, and PowerCom. It has more than 500 utility clients in the U.S. and 4.5 million of its devices have been installed to date. The company acquired Enerwise Global Technologies in July 2007, resulting in the creation of the largest demand response company in the industry. In October 2007 it acquired Public Energy Solutions, LLC.

Smart Grid Products: Comverge's state-of-the-art smart communicating thermostat, the SuperStat®, offers both utilities and end-users a rich feature set and stylish, contemporary design. Jointly developed with White-Rodgers, a division of Emerson, this thermostat operates with virtually all popular HVAC systems and is favored by installers for its ease of use and simple power stealing design. Comverge offers multiple versions of the SuperStat to meet utilities needs and budget.

Comverge's standard Load Control Switch is the Digital Control Unit. Containing many features designed to meet the needs of various program goals and configurations, the Digital Control Unit offers a wide range of functionality – from individual addressing to adaptive algorithms. Compatible with virtually all air conditioning units, and configurable for hot water heaters, pool pumps, and other auxiliary appliances, the Digital Control Unit is easy to install and extremely reliable.

Comverge's Maingate Home system is a fully price-responsive, home energy automation system. Consisting of a gateway, load control receivers, and one or multiple SuperStats, the system enables a consumer to program responses to changes in energy price tier via their thermostat or over a program website. Maingate Home enables homeowners to program their HVAC system, one or more electric water heaters, a pool pump, or any other major auxiliary appliance through a password-protected web portal, or directly through their smart SuperStat thermostat. Maingate Home will then automatically change the SuperStat's temperature setpoint and turn off any auxiliary appliances when a change in price occurs as per the homeowner's preference.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Comverge is a member of the ZigBee alliance.

Comverge has formed a strategic partnership with Itron to provide the demand response and load control components to Itron's OpenWay AMI platform. The agreement establishes Comverge as the principal provider of demand response technology, such as smart thermostats and load control switches, for use with Itron's OpenWay AMI solution.

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and Comverge will in turn deploy solutions that use the Cellnet mesh network radio technology.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Comverge has partnered with TXU Energy and Digi International to offer a demand response program in Texas, which will allow customers to manage their energy consumption over the Internet using a smart thermostat from Comverge. Digi will provide the Ethernet/ZigBee gateway, while Comverge will provide smart thermostats – referred as the TXU Energy iThermostatTM – using ZigBee enabled HAN equipment.



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Cybectec 730 Commerciale Street Suite 200 Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Quebec G6Z 2C5 Canada Tel: (418) 834-0009 Fax: (514) 227-5256 Web site: http://www.cybectec.com/ Overview: Cybectec is a subsidiary of Cooper Power Systems that provides products and software systems designed to assist utilities in modernizing their automation systems. Cooper Power Systems is a global manufacturer of world-class power delivery and reliability solutions for the electrical and industrial markets. Through its Energy Automation Solutions group, it is also a leading provider of software, communications and integration solutions that enable customers to increase productivity, improve system reliability, and reduce costs.

Smart Grid Products: Cybectec Substation and Enterprise Solutions help utilities integrate intelligent electrical devices (IEDs) into a cohesive, automated whole, providing complete, enterprise-wide access to operational and non-operational substation data in a highly secure environment. These solutions work in tandem, allowing utilities to build a comprehensive communications infrastructure that is fully integrated, delivers maximum reliability, and improves service quality.

Cybectec SMP Gateway concentrates and processes device data at the substation level. Rugged and reliable, it supports all types of connections as well as most standard and proprietary protocols. It is fully interoperable with virtually all IEDs and systems and provides a single point of access to all substation data.

Visual Substation HMI/SCADA is the companion product to Cybectec SMP Gateway. It integrates seamlessly into the substation environment to provide immediate access to device data, helping utilities simplify local operation, maintenance, commissioning, and engineering.

Cybectec Enterprise Solutions are a growing family of software applications that harness the data concentrated by the Cybectec SMP Gateway and provide users throughout the enterprise with secure access to substation data.

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Energate 2415 Holly Lane Suite 210 Ottawa, Ontario K1V 7P1 Canada Tel: (613) 482-7928 Fax: (613) 288-0816 Web site: http://www.energate.ca/index.php Overview: Energate is a privately held company that provides home energy management controls, systems, and services for the energy, HVAC, and home automation markets. Energate's customers include leading AMI companies, utilities, service companies, and home automation and HVAC companies who have recognized the value of working with Energate.

Smart Grid Products: Energate's Home Energy Management Platform lets consumers and utilities manage energy use and reduce peak demand without sacrificing comfort and convenience. With the smart thermostat at its core, the Home Energy Management Platform controls all of a home's major energy requirements. HVAC control is the starting point, but once deployed, the platform can evolve to accommodate future systems such as distributed generation. The Home Energy Management Platform incorporates load switches, remote sensors, and can tie into other home systems.

The Pioneer Series smart thermostat incorporates next generation technology beyond the features found on today's most sophisticated thermostats. It can control most conventional HVAC equipment, including heat pumps, and support the latest communications technology. As one of the first products to receive ZigBee Smart Energy certification, the Pioneer Z100 smart thermostats provide unparalleled performance and guarantee interoperability with other ZigBee-enabled components used in AMI and HAN.

The Inspiration Series thermostat uses near-field touch sensor technology to deliver the most innovative and easy-to-use interface ever. Capable of supporting the latest in communications technology, it can be adapted to suit almost any application. It works with all conventional HVAC equipment and heat pumps.

The Demand Response Control Center (DRCC) combines a smart thermostat and full-featured in-home display that functions as an integral extension of an AMI system. The DRCC gives consumers real-time, advanced information on their energy usage, and the means to control it, in one easy to use device. Based on the Pioneer platform, the DRCC provides a simple to use and highly versatile user interface and real-time communications, as well as load shedding, and the means to alert consumers.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Energate is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

Energate and Tantalus have formed a partnership agreement to develop a Programmable Communicating Thermostat which integrates Energate’s smart thermostat technology with a versatile user interface, real-time communications, and customer signaling. The thermostat can be customized and configured to enable

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different rate structures, load control programs, user messaging, and other applications.

Energate collaborated with Elster to integrate the DRCC with Elster’s EnergyAxis System.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Energate is working with Trilliant on several DR pilot projects that concentrate on meeting the needs of both utilities and consumers. The two companies, in cooperation with other DR partners, have initiated a 2008 pilot with E.ON US to determine how consumer-focused DR solutions can positively impact energy consumption. Two-way RF mesh network communications will be used along with in-home energy management technology.



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Greenbox Technology 1200 Bayhill Drive Suite 105 San Bruno, CA 94066 Tel: (650) 292-8270 Fax: (650) 872-8715 Web site: http://www.getgreenbox.com/ Overview: Greenbox Technology provides leading interactive energy management solutions for both utilities and residential energy customers. Greenbox’s products allow end-users to see how much energy they consume and make choices based on this information that can lead to economic and environmental savings.

Smart Grid Products: Greenbox is a web-based interface that allows consumers to track, understand, and manage their home energy usage and environmental impact. For utilities, the solution provides a modular web-based interactive energy management platform to help achieve smart grid initiatives. Because the platform provides customers with real-time feedback on their energy consumption, it is effective at influencing customers’ behavior. Greenbox will enable a convenient interface for households to manage DR and HAN devices. Customers can program their thermostat or other devices via a web-based interface and automatically respond to pricing events based on pre-programmed rules.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Greenbox Technology is a member of the ZigBee Alliance. Greenbox Technology is also a member of Silver Springs Networks Technology Alliance Program.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Greenbox Technology is partnering with Silver Spring Networks to deploy the Greenbox interactive energy management program for Oklahoma Gas and Electric. The deployment is part of the company’s Positive Energy SmartPower program, aimed at giving customers more control over their energy consumption and costs. Customers will be able to use Greenbox’s web-based interface to track how much energy they are using. Silver Spring Networks is providing the network infrastructure, data collection, and integration.

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GridAgents 2060 Broadway Suite 320 Boulder, CO 80301 Tel: (720) 210-1984 Web site: http://www.gridagents.com/ Overview: Infotility is a provider of intelligent agent software that enables utilities to dramatically increase the efficiency and utilization of grid assets. GridAgents, an Infotility, Inc. company, is the leading provider of real-time Collaborative Stream Processing software that monitors, processes aggregates, and coordinates streaming data from multiple sources or devices. GridAgents’ software is applicable to any community of smart devices or sensors where latency, immediacy, complex analytic/business rules, end-point processing, and security are critical issues.

Smart Grid Products: GridAgents’ software has specific applications on Smart Grid-based energy networks used for integration of communities of renewables and distributed energy resources, Microgrid management, intelligent load control and smart charging applications coordinating, including photovoltaics & storage, load control, and future assets such as plug-in hybrid electric cars.

The GridAgents Enterprise Agent Manager Suite is an advanced software foundation based on multi-agent system technology designed to work in concert with Service-oriented Architectures such as Web Services. The architecture enables the deployment of communities and eco-systems of intelligent grid resources which can adapt to changing run-time conditions, collaborate to solve complex problems, and flexibly accommodate new behavior through the use of plug-in architectures. It provides centralized management works together with other preconfigured agent types, specialized editors, applications, and reporting alerting tools. It has specialized property editors including the RateEditor, ModelEditor, RuleEditor, and PlanningEditor.

GridAgents Intelligent Load Control is an out-of-the-box solution with complete agent management collection that helps utilities make good decisions so that they can optimize demand response programs. The included “agents” are the meter agent, load control agent, transformer agent, generator agent, photovoltaic agent, aggregator agent, broker agent, and customer manager agent.

Infotility has developed a series of configured solutions for critical energy and asset management problems that highlight the real-time collaborative data stream processing capabilities and jumpstart the testing and deployment of production GridAgents-based applications in the field. Each solution is based on specific requirements for the North American, European, and Asia Pacific markets, and has been developed in conjunction with leading utilities and research and development organizations. GridAgent Solutions are sold as optional applications available when a company purchases either the GridAgents Framework - Enterprise Applications, or the GridAgents Framework - Hosted Development Platform. GridAgents Solutions can be purchased separately, or in bundled packages for specific industries.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: GridAgents is a founding member of the NextGrid NOW Alliance.

The Distributed Energy Theme of CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship has signed an agreement with Infotility to collaborate on the development of adaptive, intelligent, agent-based systems designed to manage distributed energy units. The proposed research is into agent-based software which will develop emergent behavior to govern the way small generators or loads are switched on or off by medium to small consumers of energy.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Infotility will collaborate with Innoventive Power on a pilot project called "Use of DR to Support NYS Transmission and Distribution Grids," funded by NYSERDA’s Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Program.



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GridPoint 2801 Clarendon Blvd. Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22201 Tel: (703) 667-7000 Fax: (703) 667-7001 Web site: http://www.gridpoint.com/ Overview: GridPoint is the pioneer of a smart grid platform that aligns the interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment through an intelligent network of distributed energy resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. The platform applies information technology to the electric grid to enable distributed energy resources to perform the same as central-station generation.

Smart Grid Products: The GridPoint SmartGrid™ Platform provides an intelligent network that integrates load measurement and control devices, energy storage technologies and renewable energy sources into the electric grid. The platform can easily incorporate emerging technologies, such as PHEVs and fuel cells, as these technologies become commercially viable. GridPoint Energy Manager™ is the intelligent node within the home or business that communicates with the GridPoint Operations Center. The Operations Center acts as an intelligent hub that processes and exchanges information across the platform and provides software applications for utility and customer control. Utilities gain direct control over distributed technologies through the GridPoint Control Console, located in the utility control room, and customers manage their energy online through the GridPoint Customer Portal.

The GridPoint Energy Manager’s advanced intelligence provides utilities with precise control over load management devices to offer superior demand response programs. Utilities can measure, control and verify any number of circuits (e.g. air conditioners, water heaters). Utilities can also optimize existing baseload generation and eliminate the intermittency of renewable energy by extending the capacity produced by renewable energy systems.

The GridPoint Operations Center processes and exchanges information across the platform and provides software applications for utility and consumer control. The GridPoint Operations Center easily integrates with a utility's operations and control center as well as billing and CRM systems to provide detailed energy consumption and production information over a virtual private network or private line using a utility's data bus. Reports are customized to provide utilities with the desired information in the exact format specified, enabling utilities to easily share actionable information across the enterprise and provide customers with value-added services such as detailed billing. Additionally, the operations center continuously gathers performance information on distributed technologies to preemptively address maintenance needs.

The GridPoint Control Console, located in the utility control room, offers utilities unprecedented direct control of distributed energy technologies to manage peak periods. Resource planners can manage demand and supply, resulting in an optimal utilization of grid assets and allowing utilities to maintain low rates while earning a return. Utilities can easily manage capacity, energy, and reliability - including advanced uses such as VAR support on feeder lines. The GridPoint Control Console enables utilities to execute real-

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time or scheduled events as well as manage load types (e.g. air conditioners, pool pumps) or distributed energy storage technologies (e.g. advanced batteries, fuel cells) either in aggregate or by substation, feeder or individual customer. The GridPoint Control Console does not replace existing SCADA/EMS systems, but rather supplements them.

The GridPoint Customer Portal enables customers to conserve energy through a password protected online energy management portal. Customers obtain visibility into energy consumption and costs through circuit-level management (i.e. how much energy is consumed by each appliance). Customers can also obtain detailed cost savings information related to their participation in utility-sponsored demand response programs or pricing programs. Customers can subscribe to email or text message alerts, receive comprehensive energy reports on consumption, production and system performance, as well as gain an aggregate view of multiple sites, essential for facility managers with several locations.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: GridPoint is a member of the GridWise Alliance. GridPoint is also a founding member of Silver Spring Networks’ Technology Alliance Partner Program.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Xcel Energy has started construction on a $100 million Smart Grid project in Boulder, Colorado. The project involves upgrading Xcel’s infrastructure and includes deploying technologies from GridPoint, Current Group, and Landis+Gyr AG. The project is expected to be completed in 2010.

GridPoint is a key partner in a unique construction project on the Furman University campus that incorporates and promotes the very best in green building practices. The Cliffs Cottage at Furman, a Southern Living Showcase Home, is a model of environmentally responsible design, sustainable building techniques and materials, and energy-saving systems. The cottage utilizes several of GridPoint’s capabilities including clean backup power, online energy management and PHEV smart charging. The principal partners in the Southern Living Showcase Home project are Furman, Southern Living, The Cliffs Communities, Duke Energy and Bank of America.

GridPoint and Duke Energy have undertaken what is believed to be the first commercial test of utility-controlled “smart charging” for PHEVs. Duke Energy engineers tested GridPoint’s smart charging capability by plugging a PHEV into a garage wall outlet controlled by the GridPoint SmartGrid Platform. GridPoint’s platform successfully controlled, measured and verified the charging of an electric vehicle parked in a residential garage.



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Honeywell Building Solutions 1985 Douglas Drive North Golden Valley, MN 55422 Tel: (800)345-6770 Web site: https://buildingsolutions.honeywell.com/

Overview: Honeywell International is a $36 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Its subsidiary, Honeywell Building Solutions, is a global leader in the energy services industry, helping organizations conserve energy, optimize facilities and equipment, and improve security.

In April 2008 Honeywell reached an agreement to acquire Energy Services Group. The business will be integrated into Honeywell Building Solutions.

Smart Grid Products: The UtilityPRO DR thermostat is based on Honeywell’s VisionPRO programmable thermostat. Honeywell has enhanced this popular thermostat with added features and functionality that make it the perfect backbone of a successful DR solution. So for the first time, one thermostat combines a top-of-the-line customer interface with full DR functionality. As a smart thermostat, UtilityPRO’s in-home display provides customers with current and past energy usage and billing information. But the UtilityPRO also goes much farther by enabling text messaging to customers. The UtilityPRO even allows utilities to control end-user air conditioning condenser and fan operation separately – so in many cases customers are not even aware that their condensers have been cycled off.

The Honeywell Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) offers comprehensive automation for all building systems. Using open architecture and industry standards, EBI integrates 90% of all existing buildings systems, reducing or eliminating the need to replace existing HVAC or lighting control hardware, and Honeywell EBI can be customized to the needs of virtually any facility. The Honeywell EBI suite of applications provides integrated control over every key management area. For example, the Building Manager™ provides single-window control of HVAC, lighting, electrical equipment and more, and the Energy Manager™ integrates energy management across the entire enterprise.

Building Manager utilizes open system standards to seamlessly integrate control and information systems within the enterprise. The customer will have single-window control over building operations and all the relevant data needed to maximize building performance. In addition, Building Manager captures current and historical data for advanced analysis and reporting. A full range of alarm management functions enables operators to respond more quickly and effectively to any emergency or abnormal condition. When an alarm event occurs, a graphical display can immediately show the operators where it occurred, what priority it should be given and what procedures to follow. Building Manager enables the customer to define what constitutes an alarm, along with its priority. The system can also automatically notify off-site personnel via alphanumeric pagers, cell phones and e-mail. The event summary automatically logs all alarms, acknowledgements and return-to-normal conditions

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Energy Manager is an advanced energy management and energy information system that will help customers capture, analyze and act on data to help solve problems and manage energy market uncertainty. With Energy Manager, a customer will be able to automatically control equipment on-off times to maximize savings based upon current rate structures. Energy Manager collects the needed information, helps customers analyze it and review different energy-saving scenarios, than integrates with customer systems to make the changes they desire automatically. By linking a customer’s current building control systems to automatically analyze market prices and usage, Energy Manager lets the customer actively manage energy supply and demand. Plus, Energy Manager monitors metered data for threshold limits to control supply and demand.

Honeywell ComfortPoint is a comprehensive HVAC controls and automation system designed to streamline processes, simplify operations and save customers money now and in the future. The system features a family of BACnet®, as well as LON-based controllers and a simplified interface that give consulting engineers and building managers a flexible, cost-effective platform for monitoring and managing HVAC equipment from a variety of vendors. It is fully compatible and migratable to Honeywell's EBI.

Key Smart Grid Installations: BGE has selected Honeywell to provide marketing, installation and call center support for the utility’s residential DR Infrastructure program. BGE and Honeywell expect to enroll an estimated 420,000 customers in the program. BGE estimates its program will reduce over 600 MW of peak energy use by 2012. BGE customers who enroll in the program can receive a professionally installed Honeywell UtilityPRO thermostat.

Honeywell is participating in Kansas City Power & Light’s Energy Optimizer program. Managed by Honeywell, Energy Optimizer is designed to reduce peak energy consumption from June to September, when air-conditioning use reaches its highest levels of the year. The DR program, which was launched in 2005, features the installation of programmable thermostats in residential homes and small businesses. The thermostats include a paging system that allows KCP&L to communicate with the thermostats and cycle air conditioners off and on for brief intervals.



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Site Controls 7004 Bee Caves Road Building 2, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78746 Tel: (512) 306-9400 Fax: (512) 306-9445 Web site: http://www.site-controls.com/ Overview: Site Controls provides on-demand energy and asset management solutions that increase profitability and help the environment by making energy devices more efficient. In July 2008 the company announced the asset acquisition of Excel Energy Technologies, including the Ikanosphere™ energy management solution for retail chains. The acquisition enabled Site Controls to gain intellectual property and technology from Excel Energy, which will help expand the capabilities of Site Controls’ Site-Command™ platform.

Smart Grid Products: The Site-Command platform is an energy management solution for large chains. It was designed to meet the energy needs of retail, restaurant, and convenience store operators who wish to provide constantly high and compelling levels of customer service experience.

The Site-Command solution is a distributed, intelligent system composed of onsite equipment, an above-site data center and secure, persistent connectivity facilitating efficient data transfers. The on-site equipment consists of a site controller/gateway, intelligent appliance sub-controllers for common appliances like HVACs, Lighting Controls (interior and exterior), refrigeration, occupancy, traffic, etc. Any measurable parameter important to the customer’s operation can be monitored, controlled and analyzed. The Site Command Controller provides sophisticated on-site monitoring and control over HVAC, lighting, signage and any other equipment as required by customer.

Site Controls’ Intelligent Load Management (ILM) is a turn-key aggregation service that pays commercial customers for participating in DR programs—without dramatic or negative business consequences. The ILM service leverages installations of Site-Command. ILM automatically and intelligently reduces peak energy usage by executing predefined and business-friendly DR strategies. Site Controls jointly defines and inputs business rules for each site, such as business hours and desired temperature/lighting levels for various peak emergency severity scenarios. When Site Controls receives a load curtailment request from the energy provider, ILM strategies are executed—at all ILM customer sites in the affected region. Accounting for business rules across those sites and using the unique aggregation and “auction” capabilities, Site Controls treats the energy usage across all sites as a single resource and intelligently reduces the lowest consequence loads first. ILM is able to adjust to on-site conditions by precisely monitoring temperature in different zones, energy consumption and output of individual HVAC units and lighting circuits, and equipment conditions.

Site Controls’ Site-Command Intelligent Demand Control Ventilation (IDCV) option manages both new and legacy HVAC systems in real-time to adjust the amount of outside air based on actual occupancy levels, actually improving air quality in humid climates, and eliminating wasted fan energy. Site-Command monitors CO2 globally, and applies a sophisticated control algorithm to all RTUs in the building, including older units

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built without an economizer or motorized outside air damper. For RTUs without an economizer, fans are switched between AUTO and ON modes to control the CO2 level in compliance with the ASHRAE standards. Site-Command also controls all RTU fans in a coordinated fashion to reduce peak loads and while still circulating air in the store to ensure customer and employee comfort. Newer, economizer-equipped RTUs with a dedicated CO2 sensor are also controlled by Site-Command, which integrates their local CO2 measurements into the control algorithm. Site-Command’s centralized data center logs and monitors all customer sites in real-time. By utilizing Site-Command, the customer’s energy and facilities managers can control all enterprise level functions including IDCV operation. Advanced query and trending algorithms allow the customer to deal with changing compliance standards, rapidly and remotely without a site visit to adjust dampers, or troubleshoot individual RTU performance

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Site Controls is a member of the GridWise Alliance and the ZigBee Alliance.

Key Smart Grid Installations: West Marine successfully implemented Site Controls’ energy management solution at numerous southern California pilot locations. Since the platform went live, the company has achieved energy savings each month. West Marine’s pilot also involves utilizing the ILM technology as part of a demand response program with San Diego Gas & Electric.



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Tendril 5700 Flatiron Parkway Suite 5700-D Boulder, CO 80301 Tel: 303-951-4360 Fax: 303-951-4370 Web site: http://www.tendrilinc.com/ Overview: Tendril’s technology enables consumers and suppliers to dialogue with each other via an energy ecosystem that connects in-home devices (such as thermostats) to the utility back office.

Smart Grid Products: The Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem (TREE) is an open, extensible and standards-based Residential Energy Management System (REMS) that seamlessly connects smart consumer devices (like thermostats and outlets) to existing utility back office applications and rich consumer portals, allowing consumers and energy companies to communicate, collaborate and create. TREE enables consumers to better understand their energy consumption patterns and empowers them with the ability to make a difference. TREE also allows energy suppliers to establish a deeper relationship with their customers and deploy smart energy conservation programs designed to meet the individual needs of their consumer.

TREE is comprised of multiple components. TREE Server is an open, extensible software platform designed to simplify and expedite the deployment and management of REMS. The server is designed to scale from trials to a large-scale rollout seamlessly and boasts an open API and interface for utility back-office integration. The TREE Server supports both homogeneous and heterogeneous network environments.

The Utility Management Center is a specific Web-based application designed for utilities to be able to directly communicate with consumers and gain further insight into consumption patterns. The Utility Management Center provides utilities and energy companies with a modular and interactive control center to interface with TREE from the utility’s operations centers. The Utility Management Center provides capability for remotely monitoring and managing large HAN deployments across the utility’s service area from a single web interface, as well as providing advanced modules for application programs such as Demand Response/Direct Load Control. The Utility Management Center contains several interfaces that are licensed separately. Additional interfaces include live monitoring and diagnostics, text message communication to Tendril Vantage and Tendril Insight, customer information management, remote firmware update distribution functions, and data and analytics tools.

The Demand Response (DR) Portal provides the utility company the capability of remotely controlling the operational characteristics of various customer electrical appliance and their resultant contribution to system demand. The DR Portal contains several separate control interfaces. It is a web interface that provides connectivity from the head end to the device for system dispatch. Additional interfaces may be required for custom installations including managing back-haul signaling, data transfer between the system and the installation contractor, and data sharing with customer care consultants. System Configuration allows the operator to setup and maintain the mandatory and optional parameters for system capabilities that are configurable for dispatch. The

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Dispatch interface itself supports the capability for load control signals to be sent to the load-sheddable devices in the HANs that have been filtered and selected by the system for dispatch. Dispatch also allows the cancellation and editing of created events. Reporting tracks these requests in real-time as a persistent audit trail.

The TREE Server (TREES) is an open, extensible software platform designed to simplify and expedite the building, deployment and management of ZigBee network applications. It can be deployed alongside existing ZigBee applications to enhance the application and/or network environment or used in a green field application to build enterprise-class ZigBee applications from the ground up. The core architecture is designed to scale from a single server to a cluster of TREES instances deployed into a NOC.

Tendril Vantage is a browser-based Internet application that provides customers with the tools and information they need to better understand, manage and control their energy consumption patterns. Tendril Vantage allows consumers to monitor and control each of the devices in their home. With Tendril Vantage users can register their home and electric appliances and devices. Users can set rules, set user alerts and notifications, track their consumption in real-time, review historical usage patterns and compare their household energy expenditure against other homes in their area with similar demographics.

Tendril Insight is a ZigBee-enabled in-home display that communicates with networked smart devices to provide consumers with the information they need to better understand, manage and control energy consumption in their home. It shows basic consumption and cost information, an estimated monthly bill, utility pricing and load control event messages. Tendril Insight provides users with the ability to set personal alerts and notifications for when key conditions occur. Finally, it provides real-time information gathered from the TREE. Consumers can monitor their energy consumption as they use it and see the effect of running various appliances and electronics, as well as adjusting their thermostat set-point.

The Tendril OEM Smart Energy Thermostat is a ZigBee Smart Energy compliant thermostat that communicates with a variety of in-home devices, such as outlets and electricity meters and Tendril Vantage. Specifically designed to provide out-of-the-box convenience and control, the Tendril OEM Smart Energy Thermostat is wired to traditional HVAC units just like a regular thermostat to control the HVAC via user-controlled set points. It comes pre-programmed with specific “price rules” that dictate how to behave in the presence of various price tiers. Or, for more customized performance, the Tendril OEM Smart Energy Thermostat is dynamically re-programmable to create different behavioral responses to pricing rules and information.

Tendril Transport is a ZigBee-enabled IP gateway device for consumers. It can send and receive energy related data including: current price and consumption data from a ZigBee-enabled electricity meter; current state of controlled or registered ZigBee devices; regular consumption information for historical cataloging; and commissioning, registration and diagnostics messages.

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devices have the ability to communicate with each other and with the smart meter, even if that meter is far away from the main living area, such as in an external car port or the far side of a garage.

Tendril Volt is a 3-prong, ZigBee-enabled electrical outlet that can be plugged into a standard wall outlet to monitor the energy efficiency of any electrical appliance or device. When used in conjunction with the TREE, multiple outlets in the same home can be tracked individually or as a group over the Internet giving the consumer unprecedented insight into and control over their household energy footprint.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Tendril is a member of the ZigBee Alliance.

Tendril is also working closely with several AMI and meter partners, including Itron, Landis+Gyr (Cellnet+Hunt) and Silver Spring Networks to deliver ZigBee Smart Energy certified products.

Finally, Tendril is partnering with major firms like IBM to fully support the integration and deployment of REMS as part of a utility’s smart grid initiatives.



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Distribution/Substation Automation Technology Vendors

ABB Affolternstrasse 44 P.O. Box 8131 CH-8050 Zurich Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)43 317 7111 Fax +41 (0)43 317 4420 Web site: http://www.abb.com/

Overview: ABB is one of the world’s leading engineering companies. It helps its customers use electrical power effectively while increasing their industrial productivity in a sustainable way. The company has over 120 years of technological leadership. It now operates in more than 100 countries.

Smart Grid Products: ABB offers its Intelligent Data Sensor technology. By simply attaching a small, non-intrusive, clamp-on AC/DC sensor to the relay wires and connecting its Cat5 cable to the supplied recording switch, real-time analog and digital information is readily available for analysis. The sensor is highly sensitive to a resolution of 10 microseconds and is capable of sensing millisecond transients with a 2% accuracy range. This clamp-on sensor, coupled with ABB’s waveform data analysis, is capable of fast line restoration, fault and disturbance analysis, and real time monitoring of evolving loads - all without the costs involved in upgrading to microprocessors.

The LON OPC server opens the doors for seamless integration of ABB’s Protection and Control IEDs into an ABB system and third party systems. ABB has opted for open standards that allow business and manufacturing applications to access process information in ABB’s Protection and Control products in a standard format. The LON OPC Server is a powerful, easy-to-use server software that provides access to real-time process information throughout any Process Automation system (Distributed Control System), SCADA system, or any other system with OPC Client support.

An objective for the ABB feeder automation concept is to offer utilities a system which they can use for reducing outage times, shortening restoration times, improving power quality, reducing the amount of undelivered energy and cutting maintenance costs. ABB offers reliable automated switches, remote monitoring and control units, versatile communication possibilities and network control system with feeder automation software. All these together offer a concept required in a MV overhead line network and by the deregulated electric market.

The complete feeder protection relay and terminal range from ABB offers a solution for protecting, monitoring and controlling cables and overhead lines. Customers can either integrate these products into their substation automation system or intelligent switchgear or use them as stand-alone multifunction units. In addition, all of these products provide versatile communications as well as sophisticated functionality for event, alarm and fault analysis.

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distribution automation systems. The PCD's protection, monitoring, programmable control and communication features make it the ideal choice for recloser applications. The PCD combines, in one economical package, power quality, accurate metering and load profiling to provide crucial system information for managing today's distribution systems.

The remote monitoring and control unit REC 501 is designed to be used for remote and local control, condition monitoring, supervision and automation of secondary substations in medium voltage networks. Remote control and monitoring for the control of medium voltage disconnectors, switches, ring-main units and other substation secondary equipment includes extensive, bidirectional information exchange between the power system process and the network control center. It can support communication via radio telephone, radio link, fixed lines, leased lines, public telephone lines and mobile phones.

The remote monitoring and control unit REC 523 is designed to be used for remote and local control, protection and fault indication, condition monitoring, supervision and automation of secondary substations in medium voltage networks. The REC 523 can be connected to conventional current and voltage transformers or to the ABB current and voltage sensors. The freely programmable LED display facilitates status indication of local I/Os and thus also of the RMU, disconnectors or switches. By using the benefits of a multi-processor environment you can achieve increased performance. Digital signal processing, together with a powerful CPU and distributed I/O handling, enables flexible applications. In addition, it improves response times and accuracy.

SMS 510 is an overall substation monitoring system which provides essential information about the electrical transmission and distribution process. SMS 510 provides advanced import and export facilities ensuring continuity with existing SMS 010 applications. SMS 510 supports the ABB range of products with SPA or LON communication. It can be easily expanded to a larger SMS system or stepwise upgraded to a full-fledged SCS system. SMS 510 can be used either locally at the station or remotely via a modem. In addition, it can use the PSTN or a TCP/IP network for remote use.

The COM600 is a dedicated system for interoperability between IEDs and local or higher level systems, such as Network Control Centers or Distribution Control Systems. The series features gateway functionality supporting a variety of commonly used substation device communication protocols. The COM600 series comprises three products. The Control and Monitoring Unit COM605 gathers data from protection and control IEDs and process devices using different protocols. The Communication Gateway COM610 sends process control and monitoring information to the NCC and DCS and receives process control commands from them. The gateway also handles system co-ordination tasks, such as dynamic assignment of control command authorization and communication supervision. COM615 provides gateway functions for mapping signals between protection and control IEDs in industrial or utility substations and higher-level systems, and a Human Machine Interface HMI) that provides an interface for data and information between the substation and the users.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: ABB is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

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Research Council, EDF Energy and Scottish Power DNOs to develop AURA NMS (Automated Regional Active Network Management). AURA NMS is working to integrate efficiently, economically and reliably the increased levels of distributed generation and renewable energy into ageing distribution networks.

ABB is part of Elster’s AGI Initiative which seeks to develop a set of hardware, software and communications solutions needed in the critical area of network automation. ABB will work with Elster Electricity on innovative applications that utilize AMI information to improve network performance.



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Advanced Control Systems 2755 Northwoods Parkway Norcross, Georgia 30071 Tel: (770) 446-8854 Fax: (770) 448-0957 Web site: http://www.acsatlanta.com Overview: Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS) was established in 1975 and is a provider of smart grid solutions to the global electric power industry. The company began as a manufacturer of remote terminal units (RTUs) and has become the oldest privately owned provider of SCADA systems, energy management systems, distribution management systems, and system components for electric, gas and water utilities. ACS is a subsidiary of EFACEC, a global supplier of automation systems and infrastructure solutions to the global energy and transport sectors.

Smart Grid Products: FASTappsTM (Feeder Automation and Substation Technology applications platform) is an open substation platform which supports smart grid real-time feeder and substation automation applications. FASTapps incorporates an adaptive, model-based approach designed to detect feeder faults resulting in outages to provide isolation and automatic restoration of un-faulted feeder sections. FASTapps doesn’t rely on pre–defined and scripted solutions that may not suit a particular outage condition. It can act automatically or can be configured for semi–automatic or advisory (manual) operation. FASTapps does this by consolidating network intelligence and the power of advanced distribution applications in a substation data concentrator platform.

The Connex 30 Substation Manager, integrated with the FASTapps processor in a distributed architecture, gives command–and–control capabilities, including “self–healing” feeder networks. Optional applications include loss reduction through volt/var control and real–time performance index calculation. FASTapps can also support homegrown or third parties applications. The Connex 60 is an integrated gateway for RTUs, high–performance IEDs and substation metering and control. With 32–bit performance, 10/100BaseT DNP3 over TCP/IP Ethernet support, support for local I/O, DNP3, Modbus, most SCADA protocols, and a multitude of IEDs, the Connex 60 lets users manage communications through a single resource.

PRISM is an industry standard, SCADA system currently operating in over 200 electric utilities worldwide. The PRISM application platform is a real-time solution that encompasses the complete range of applications for distribution automation, demand, and analysis.

Distribution AutoPilot is a comprehensive solution to feeder and substation automation. Combining PRISM applications with OpEn Connect feeder automation, AutoPilot can restore power within minutes of an outage. In addition to avoiding penalties for service interruption, users can discourage predatory competition by providing the best service possible.

The PRISM Real-time Outage Management System (OMS) can handle the most severe storm situations without drowning in a flood of real-time SCADA updates. PRISM OMS dramatically improves the network by accessing and updating the same data as SCADA, real-time automation and real-time analysis. These applications are presented as part of

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a unified operator interface, reducing reaction time, simplifying training, and optimizing data flow. PRISM Real-Time OMS includes feeder automation applications that automatically restore service to restorable sections of the feeder within seconds.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: ACS has joined with Arcadian Networks, EnerNex Corporation, GridAgents, Horizon Energy Group LLC and UTInnovation LLC as a founding member in the NextGrid Now Alliance. NextGrid Now will focus on the smart grid requirements of municipal and cooperative utilities.

The Modern Grid Initiative (MGI) has licensed ACS’ XpertSim™ for use in MGI’s technology test and validation program. MGI is deploying the ACS simulator to model, test, and validate new smart grid, renewable, and distributed energy technologies in order to evaluate their effect on distribution system performance. The benefits and operational characteristics of these technologies will be evaluated in real-time using a dynamic transient simulation of an actual distribution feeder network.

ACS has joined the ESRI partner program. The companies will work together to expand the available integration between their products in support of emerging smart grid market requirements for increasingly tighter integration between geospatial and real-time smart grid systems. ACS plans call for improved integration that supports incremental model changes to ACS system network topology directly from the ESRI geodatabase. Utility companies will then have tools to automatically synchronize, without the need for cumbersome intermediate files and processes, changes between geographic data in ESRI applications and the real-time database and network feeder models that support ACS smart grid systems including feeder automation, substation automation, and distribution management system applications.

Key Smart Grid Installations: The City of Anaheim Public Utilities has completed the production deployment of the ACS PRISM OMS to increase reliability and deliver improved electric service to its citizens. Anaheim operates its OMS from the same real-time database that supports its ACS SCADA, substation, and feeder automation systems. In addition to OMS, Anaheim has deployed ACS solutions for SCADA, substation and feeder automation, interactive voice response for crew call out, and enterprise business intelligence, including real-time tracking and reporting of IEEE 1366 reliability indices.

ACS has successfully installed the first phase of its distribution reliability smart grid program for PPL Electric Utilities. ACS completed installation at PPL of the first network portions of a self-healing smart grid automation program—FASTapps. PPL is working to increase the reliability of its feeders through the application of ACS smart grid technology.

ACS has successfully completed delivery and acceptance testing of its FASTapps feeder automation system for OG&E Electric Services. OG&E believes that enhancement of substation systems with FASTapps will significantly increase the operational benefits from its installed equipment base and provides it with an efficient approach to self-healing automation of its distribution system feeders.



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AREVA T&D Tour AREVA 1, place Jean Millier 92084 Paris - La Défense France Tel: +44 (0) 1785 25 00 70 Fax: +44 (0) 1785 27 24 51 Web site: http://www.areva-td.com/

Overview: AREVA T&D is one of the top global players in the transmission and distribution of energy. It provides solutions to bring electricity from the source onto the power network. It builds high- and medium-voltage substations and develops technologies to manage power grids worldwide. The Automation business unit provides essential digital solutions for the real-time automation of transmission and distribution networks. The business unit provides 3 product lines worldwide:

• digital automation products, including digital protection equipment, electrical signal measurement equipment and information transmission equipment

• digital automation systems for substations and energy management for remote operation of networks

• related support services for maintaining digital infrastructure in a fully operational state, renovating automation systems and training for operators.

Smart Grid Products: e-terracontrol for substations provides an access gateway into your substations. It integrates e-terracontrol Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and HMI capabilities with MiCOM, BiTRONICS and third party products. A full set of services is offered, including protection, engineering, installation, and maintenance. Customers who also use AREVA’s e-terraplatform™ SCADA/Energy Management System have the ability to share the substation database and displays with the substation system, providing an integrated enterprise wide solution for data and display management.

PACiS is a Digital Control System, belonging to AREVA T&D’s latest generation of competitive, innovative Power Automation solutions. PACiS offers topology-orientated automation and electrical security, and minimizes outage. By using substation-specific communication protocols, it enables complete integration between devices and therefore ensures optimum use of information. It also provides smooth migration to new communication standards. PACiS manages several types of data: positions, controls, measurements, disturbance records, setting, etc. PACiS handles several types of communication protocols used in substations. Performance of the application is highly dependent on the choice of the protocol, including speed (300 bps to 100 Mbps), services (master-slave vs. client-server) or communication objects.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: AREVA T&D is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

AREVA T&D has a strategic partnership agreement with NovaTech to globally distribute, under the AREVA T&D MiCOM brand, the latest IEDs from Bitronics.

Key Smart Grid Installations: AREVA T&D has signed an agreement with Terna S.p.A.

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to supply substation automation systems (PACiS) that comply with the new IEC-61850 standard. AREVA T&D will also provide 65 power connection bays and will replace Terna S.p.A.’s existing electrical copper connections with new fiber optic versions. These new substation automation systems will enable the grid operator to integrate equipment with more flexibility and anticipate future needs.



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Augusta Systems 3592 Collins Ferry Road Suite 200 Morgantown, WV 26505 Tel: (304) 599-3200 Fax: (304) 599-3480 Web site: http://www.augustasystems.com/

Overview: Augusta Systems powers intelligent enterprise networks, enabling collaboration and communication between enterprise networks and edge assets. Its products allow enterprise networks and edge assets to collaborate and communicate with each other. Such assets include sensors, actuators, wireless sensor networks, RFID systems, imagery devices, and other devices. Augusta Systems technologies and integration services support security, monitoring, automation, asset tracking, and other enterprise applications. Through key partnerships, Augusta Systems also offers integrated monitoring and control products

Smart Grid Products: EdgeFrontier™ is middleware for building and managing intelligent networks, systems, and applications featuring data from edge assets. Enterprises can build and manage intelligent networks from the edge to the core using their existing enterprise network infrastructure and EdgeFrontier. EdgeFrontier can be configured easily to receive, process, correlate, and communicate data from edge assets including sensors, actuators, reclosers, and switches, as well as enterprise file and data repositories. With the installation of EdgeFrontier Engine™ on gateways, servers, or other computing systems, and EdgeFrontier Client™ on remote workstations and PCs, users are provided with a complete, remotely configurable middleware solution for integration, processing, correlation, distribution, and control throughout the network – from the edge to the core. In addition, EdgeFrontier acts as an edge application server and can be configured as an edge enterprise service bus, providing an abstraction layer to support processing and distribution of data without writing code.

SensorPort™ is a modular, integrated product comprised of hardware components and embedded software, including the SensorPort Configuration Management System™. Leveraging EdgeFrontier middleware, the SensorPort software provides a remote client interface that allows for rapid device configuration, monitoring, management, and customization to include data from a litany of edge assets. SensorPort can be configured for internal network connections and receipt and transmission of data from external networks. SensorPort can achieve data capture from sensors, actuators, wireless sensor networks, RFID systems, imagery devices, and other edge assets, as well as system data repositories. Sensor and control system integration and scalability is simplified through the SensorPort Configuration Management System. Leveraging these features, SensorPort supports the utilization of existing enterprise network infrastructure to transmit edge asset data to network devices. Communications can occur via TCP and UDP communication protocols, as well as function as part of ZigBee, WiFi, and WiMax deployments.

SensorBridge™ is a suite of Microsoft Visual Studio software components for building and managing intelligent networks, systems, and applications – featuring data from edge assets – within an integrated development environment. The core feature of SensorBridge is quick and easy consolidation of data from various types of edge assets.

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SensorBridge can easily incorporate data from different types of edge assets and supply information, through a variety of functions, to network devices supporting a variety of databases and file structures. These components reduce, or in some cases eliminate, the need to write middleware, front-end code, and back-end code for sensor and control systems and networks. SensorBridge enables data from edge assets – including sensors, actuators, wireless sensor networks, RFID systems, imagery devices, and other edge systems and devices – to intelligently connect with the enterprise.

GridMonitor is a network appliance that supports integration of data from edge assets into the OSIsoft PI System. GridMonitor supports enhanced remote integration, processing, storage, and distribution of edge asset data for PI System users. As a result, enterprises can expand the reach of the PI System to include data from edge assets, including both new deployments and legacy systems, at remote locations. GridMonitor combines SensorPort with OSIsoft ECHO and an ECHO to PI Interface as embedded software. As a result of GridMonitor, PI System users can expand the reach of the PI System to include data from edge assets at remote locations. GridMonitor allows for the seamless integration of data from these assets into the PI System. With the combined features of SensorPort and ECHO, GridMonitor also enables remote monitoring at sites that lack constant or consistent communications with enterprise networks that feature the PI System. In the event of communication interruption, remote data is stored and then automatically distributed from GridMonitor to the PI System when communication is restored.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Augusta Systems is a Technology Partner of Arcadian Networks.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Technologies from Augusta Systems have been selected by Allegheny Power for use in an electricity grid modernization project. The project will enable a portion of Allegheny Power’s electricity distribution system in the Morgantown, West Virginia, service area to be “self-healing.” The project will feature an autonomous, self-healing system consisting of reclosers and switches, an intelligent wireless communications network infrastructure, state-of-the-art sensors and system automation software. The system will be installed on two 12.5 kV electricity distribution feeders. The system will dynamically collect data from the feeders and, in case of a fault, will isolate the fault and restore some or all electricity service from adjacent feeders in real-time without manual intervention from system operators.

Augusta Systems’ products have been deployed by Allegheny Power for use in a new Smart Grid project. Allegheny Power has utilized EdgeFrontier middleware and SensorPort network appliances as the foundation for the Research Ridge Project—an intelligent electricity system communications and control network, linking transformer monitors, power line sensors, circuit switches, electricity sensing devices, IT systems and the IP network. The new deployment, at a six-building office park demonstrates how this communications and control network can link the customer’s equipment to the utility’s network to optimize energy consumption. The new deployment integrates the electric distribution system communications and control network with customer building and energy management systems.



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BPL Global 1603 Carmody Court Suite 400 Sewickley, PA 15143 Tel: (724) 933-7700 Fax: (724) 933-7715 Web site: http://www.bplglobal.net/ Overview: BPL Global is a smart grid technology company that is committed to leading the transformation of energy and information delivery. It provides electric utilities with software solutions and services in order to improve demand management, integrate distributed energy resources, enhance reliability, and achieve greater cost and capital productivity.

In January 2008 BPL Global acquired Serveron which provides distribution automation products. Also, in January 2008 BPL Global entered into an agreement to acquire Connected Energy Corporation, developer of a state-of-the-art demand management solution. In April 2008 BPL Global acquired Plan B Solutions, a provider of substation automation technology to electric utilities.

Smart Grid Products: BPL Global’s software-based solutions run on the company’s Power SG® Foundation software platform, which has an open, service-oriented architecture that is scalable and highly available. This platform allows utilities to deploy smart grid applications in a specific sequence and within an integrated architecture. In addition to the Power SG Foundation, BPL Global’s products also use a network communications platform and monitoring and control devices. The Power SG Foundation provides platform services such as user security management, data repository & reporting, messaging and a common user interface framework. The platform is Java-based and compatible with most hosting platforms and operating systems.

Power SG Integrated Distributed Energy Resource Management (Integrated DER) is a software control system providing electric utilities with the capability to maximize asset utilization and optimize management of the distribution network. Power SG Integrated DER Manager monitors the condition of the local electrical grid (distribution feeders) to identify, assess, and manage grid resources for improved energy delivery. Power SG Integrated DER Master monitors the wholesale energy market for price and capacity opportunities and the distribution network for service and reliability requirements.

Power SG Network Monitoring and Management is designed to monitor and manage the electrical device layer for an intelligent grid. The system monitors real time information provided by either legacy or new communications equipment, devices and sensors located throughout the distribution grid. Issues at any device are immediately registered and an alarm with precise location information is generated, allowing the utility to drastically improve day-to-day grid management, avoid or swiftly respond to outages and restore power to affected areas quickly.

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times of high demand. Each piece of equipment can be monitored for efficiency in real time by Power SG software on a unified customer interface. The Power SG C&I Controller can use multiple forms of communication to send back real-time information to the operations team to monitor equipment and electrical usage. It enables a connection to distributed energy systems such as energy management, on-site generators, renewable power sources, HVAC and associated instrumentation. The operations team can set parameters to which the equipment is supposed to operate during normal capacity times and also during peak periods.

Power SG Residential Demand Management solutions effectively manage non-critical load at the home owner level. Power SG actively manages the load on residential air conditioners, pool pumps and water heaters during peak load when the cost to generate electricity is high. Two way communication and temperature monitoring allow our solution to maximize load shed while keeping people comfortable. The Power SG residential controller is a smart device that actively manages the compressor in a central air conditioning unit.

Power SG Rapid Fault Locator is a software and sensor solution designed to avoid outages and minimize their duration. A flexible rules engine captures and executes utility-defined business rules over a potentially high volume of data flowing in from the power line instrumentation. The rules ensure the most significant and relevant information are conveyed to the grid operators in a timely manner. Events can be triggered by rules observing patterns and exceptions in the data. Such events can also be utilized by other Power SG grid management applications such as the Demand Management, Network Monitoring and Management and Integrated DER Solutions.

BPL Global provides substation automation equipment that connects hundreds of points in the substation back to the utility operations center and engineering groups. It uses an integrated system for fast and simple automation of any IED that includes the DSM module, a protocol conversion device, the DSR-12, an Ethernet backbone for connectivity between substation and the utility’s control systems, and the HMI.

BPL Global provides energy asset management equipment that connects hundreds of points in remote energy systems, such as distributed generation, energy storage and renewable energy, back to the operations center, service teams and engineering groups. It uses an integrated system for fast and simple remote visualization of any device controller, field instrumentation or distributed control system, a protocol conversion device, an Ethernet backbone for connectivity between the remote system and the centralized operation and the HMI.

Serveron® Transformer Monitoring products and services continually monitor the operating condition and changes in performance of critical generation, transmission and distribution equipment including Power Transformers, LTCs and Bushings. Comprehensive, on-line solutions immediately notify the utility with information on developing problems to the appropriate personnel. Serveron Transformer Bushing Monitors offer on-line, real time transformer bushing monitoring to enable utilities to avoid failures, extend the life of critical power transformers, reduce maintenance costs and improve reliability. Serveron Transformer Monitors provide on-line dissolved gas analysis condition assessment. The Serveron Monitoring Service offers the convenience of secure 24/7 access to all Serveron monitor data from any Internet-connected



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Windows PC running our Serveron Monitoring Service software.

BPL Global’s broadband solutions use existing power lines to enable Internet, telephony, as well as building and energy management services for communities that previously did not have access to these solutions. Using broadband over power line technology for last mile communications avoids costly and time consuming deployment of new communications infrastructure such as fiber or copper. BPL Global offers three products. Master Box™, a turn-key, integrated broadband communications system; Power SG Network Expertise™ communications network management software ; and EasyGreen® building and energy management services.

Key Smart Grid Installations: BPL Global is working with Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) to deploy an Integrated DER management system to demonstrate energy efficiency and reliability as well as customer satisfaction in JCP&L’s service area.. The project will provide 8 MW of direct load control, 5 MW of which will come from 3,500 residential customers. The remaining 3 MW will come from 30 to 90 commercial and industrial customers.

A major U.S. mid-Atlantic region investor-owned utility has selected BPL Global, through its Serveron subsidiary, to be its exclusive supplier of on-line monitors for this power company’s fleet of power transformers.



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Comverge 120 Eagle Rock Avenue Suite 190 East Hanover, NJ 07936 Tel: (888) 565-5525 Fax: (973) 884-3504 Web site: http://www.comverge.com/ Overview: Comverge is a clean energy company that offers demand response and pay-for-performance programs to help meet peak energy challenges. It was founded as a merger of utility technology groups from Scientific Atlanta, Lucent/Bell Labs, and PowerCom. The company acquired Enerwise Global Technologies in July 2007, resulting in the creation of the largest demand response company in the industry. In October 2007 it acquired Public Energy Solutions, LLC.

Smart Grid Products: Comverge's Digital Capacitor Controller™ provides utilities triggered or on-demand access for controlling capacitor banks on their distribution networks. This device is available in one-way and two-way communications models, which communicate via VHF paging. This solution offers various functionalities for distribution system management. The DCC is integrated with Comverge's PowerCAMP software, enabling linkage with Demand Response components and triggers.

Comverge's RTU enables control of capacitor banks, fault and outage notification, and end device monitoring with two-way communications. This communications diagnostic device can be utilized over virtually any desired communications network, such as cellular, fixed, or broadband. When used in conjunction with Comverge's PowerCAMP real-time software, the RTU enables the connection, control, and monitoring of over 30,000 capacitor banks and distribution circuit endpoints.

Comverge's Maingate eSS is a robust data aggregation component which can collect data from up to 10,000 unique points per device, whether loads within an industrial facility, generators, grid automation components, or substation controls. The eSS offers two-way communications via paging, cellular, fixed, or broadband networks. The eSS is capable of interfacing with virtually any device over proprietary or non-proprietary protocols. The aggregated data can then easily be interfaced with Comverge's PowerCAMP real-time software solution or imported into existing SCADA, operations, billing, or CRM/CIS tools.

Comverge's PowerCAMP LMS is a complete Load Management System that supports comprehensive load control functions including remote programming, capacitor bank control, and service reconnect/disconnect control. Strategies, group addressing, and parameters are user set within the software and are then downloaded remotely to the load control receivers. Program operation can be implemented digitally at the load control master station based on a variety of methods.

Comverge's PowerCAMP Real-Time software enables control of Virtual SCADA™ components such as the Digital Capacitor Controller™ and RTUs. This robust software package enables utilities to utilize existing software from a Comverge Demand Response system to control grid automation elements.




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Cannon Technologies 505 Highway 169 North Suite 1200 Minneapolis, MN 55441 Tel: (763) 595-7777 Fax: (763) 543-7777 Web site: http://www.cannontech.com/ Overview: Cannon Technologies is a subsidiary of Cooper Power Systems that provides electric utilities with software for load management and distribution automation. Cooper Power Systems is a global manufacturer of world-class power delivery and reliability solutions for the electrical and industrial markets. Through its Energy Automation Solutions group, it is also a leading provider of software, communications and integration solutions that enable customers to increase productivity, improve system reliability, and reduce costs.

Smart Grid Products: Cannon’s Yukon Advanced Energy Services Platform is a powerful, scalable, real-time multi-tasking platform using the industry-standard combination of Microsoft Windows 2000 and an SQL database. Programmed from the ground up with the latest industry-standard, portable tools, Yukon® is sold as a stand-alone Master Station, or an enterprise-wide application server, or as a platform for providing ASP services to other energy providers. A number of applications are available on the Platform.

The Capacitor Control Server uses remotely-configurable intelligence at the bank level, combined with global intelligence at the Master Station level. Add a wide array of communication options, and the result is a more flexible system at a lower cost.

The CBC 7000 series remotely controlled capacitor bank switch is designed for electric distribution utilities that want to add centralized intelligence to their power factor management strategies. The CBC 7000 features SelectComm™ interchangeable communication modules which allow upgrades of communication technology whenever needed. All CBC 7000 units feature the same main-board and intelligence, but can be ordered with several combinations of communication and sensor options. Most options, including communications, may be field installed. Configuration can be remotely adjusted with a communication link. Available options currently include a temperature sensor, external CT for monitoring the system neutral, external antenna, and SelectComm™ option boards for 900 MHz FLEX™ paging (one-way), serial communication compatible with DNP 3.0 (typically over utility-owned radio), and TCP/IP (RJ-45 Ethernet connector). GPRS cellular and 1xRTT cellular are expected in 2006. The base unit functions as a stand-alone controller basing control on time, voltage, or a combination. With the temperature sensor option, control can be based on time, temperature, or a combination. Units with communication automatically fall back to time, temperature, or voltage (or combination) if communication is lost.

The Esubstation™ Server supports intelligent substation monitoring to reduce operations and maintenance costs, and to prevent outages and outage-related costs, using predictive strategies. Other benefits include improved reliability and optimized asset utilization.

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The SubGate® is a cost-effective solution for gathering data from substation equipment such as transformers and circuit breakers. This data from equipment alarms, sensors, and IEDs can be presented by way of fiber or wireless connection to a substation RTU or Gateway. The SubGate communicates in industry standard DNP 3.0 protocol, and is enabled with on-board timing and monitoring functions, making it a natural for use in substation monitoring. Included are twelve status inputs and four bipolar analog inputs for connection to alarms, sensors, or analog transducers; and two control output relays for providing conventional alarms, cooling or LTC control. The SubGate® is equipped with Cannon Technologies’ SelectComm™ interchangeable communication module to allow for future upgrades of communication technology. It can be provided in an outdoor NEMA 4 enclosure, magnetic mount panel, or board-only configuration. SubGate® can also be supplied with a sensor package for monitoring circuit breakers and transformers.

The SCADA Data Exchange supports SCADA systems via either local IP or serial connections. It includes point data exchange for any point type including calculated points.

Key Smart Grid Installations: BGE has chosen Cannon Technologies' Yukon Centralized Capacitor Control software and CBC7000 capacitor bank controller to regulate distribution line voltages. BGE's substation design uses an advanced voltage control algorithm in Cannon Technologies' Yukon software to determine where and when to apply capacitors to maintain stable system voltages. The design includes Cannon Technologies' communicating capacitor controllers enhanced with failsafe features such as site voltage override for voltage protection and backup modes in the event communications become temporarily unavailable.

Cannon Technologies is working with TXU Electric Delivery to execute a multi-year, multi-phased project to implement a real-time power factor management system across TXU’s distribution system. The TXU project will incorporate Cannon CBC7000 controllers at several thousand switched banks, Yukon™ capacitor management software, real-time integration to TXU’s PI database, and company wide browser-based access to information. The TXU system will be designed to center on improved operations and maintenance resulting in optimized power factor.



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Cooper Power Systems 1900 E. North St. Waukesha, WI 53188 Tel: (262) 547-1251 Web site: http://www.cooperpower.com/

Overview: Cooper Power Systems engineers and manufactures medium- and high-voltage electrical equipment, components, and systems that deliver reliable electric power to homes, industries, businesses, and institutions worldwide. As a global manufacturer, Cooper Power Systems provides a wide range of forward-looking solutions including Distribution Automation, Outage Management, Power Quality, Distribution System Reliability, Environmental, and Distributed Generation products and services.

Smart Grid Products: Cooper offers a variety of single-phase and three-phase reclosers which are either hydraulically or electrically controlled. Hydraulic recloser control is used in most single-phase reclosers and in three-phase recloser types 6H and V6H. It is built as an integral part of the recloser. With this type of control, an overcurrent is sensed by a trip coil that is connected in series with the line. Kyle electronic recloser controls are used in most three-phase reclosers and in the single-phase recloser types VXE and NOVA. Compared with the hydraulic control, they are more flexible, more easily customized and programmed, and many have advanced protection, metering, and automation functionality.

The Automated M-Force Switch is a fully automated three-phase distribution class switching station with the advanced innovation of the iMC switch control, ProView control software, motor operator, optional sensors and an M-Force switch. It is available in 15 kV and 27 kV ratings, and integrates with virtually any automation component on a distribution automation system.

Form 6 recloser control is designed for rapid user customization, full protection and metering, all under the automation umbrella. The Form 6 Recloser Control uses a powerful, yet flexible, platform design to provide maximum protective functionality, standardized hardware design, and simple interactive graphical interfaces. The wireless, three-phase, vacuum-interrupting ARIES recloser has a completely integrated, automated control. Interface, right on a PC or PDA, with Cooper’s Virtual Front Panel, designed to look just like a Form 6 control panel.

With the Edison® Idea™ relay platform, Cooper has advanced the state-of-the-art in integrating control and protection. Available now in Feeder and Line Distance relay versions, the Idea relay incorporates the most sophisticated software expandability of any relay available. Its unique Idea Workbench™ feature allows the relay's functionality to be expanded by adding downloading software modules. These modules can be created by the end user, third party developers, or from Cooper.

ProView Software is the Windows based PC interface program for Cooper's Form 6 recloser control, ARIES Recloser, Idea and IdeaPLUS line of relays, and the Edison Pro line of relays.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: Cooper has an exclusive license agreement with Sensus Metering Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, Cooper Power Systems plans to integrate Sensus Metering Systems’ FlexNet advanced communications technology into its products to help electric utilities improve productivity, enhance reliability and reduce the cost of delivering power. The multi-year license provides Cooper Power Systems with capabilities to use, market and sell the FlexNet AMI radio communications technologies for transmission and distribution applications.



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ESRI 380 New York Street Redlands, CA 92373-8100 Tel: (909) 793-2853 Web site: http://www.esri.com/ Overview: ESRI designs and develops GIS technology. The company was founded in 1969 as Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. It was originally a privately held consulting firm that focused on projects analyzing land use.

Smart Grid Products: ESRI’s technology is used in the electric utility industry to give managers the ability to view electric and gas system data geospatially. ESRI’s GIS solution provides utilities with outage management response capabilities; a system for service call and fleet management work; and an automation process that can be applied to common tasks.

ArcGIS is a complete system for authoring, serving, and using geographic information. It is an integrated collection of GIS software products for building and deploying a complete GIS wherever it is needed. ArcView is full-featured GIS software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data. ArcEditor is a powerful GIS desktop system for editing and managing geographic data. ArcEditor includes all the functionality of ArcView and adds a comprehensive set of tools to create, edit, and ensure the quality of your data. ArcInfo is the de facto standard for GIS professionals. ArcInfo includes all the functionality of ArcEditor, ArcView, and ArcReader and adds advanced spatial analysis, extensive data manipulation, and high-end cartography tools. ArcInfo provides all the tools to build and manage a complete, intelligent GIS including maps and globes, data, metadata, geodatasets, and workflow models. This functionality is accessible via an easy-to-use interface that is customizable and extensible through models, scripting, and applications.

ArcGIS Explorer delivers an easy-to-use way to view and share information geographically. ArcGIS Server connects people with geographic information. Organizations, small and large, use ArcGIS Server to distribute maps and GIS capabilities over the Web to improve internal workflows, communicate vital issues, and engage stakeholders. ArcPad is software for mobile GIS and field mapping applications using handheld and mobile devices. ArcPad provides field-based personnel with the ability to capture, analyze, and display geographic information, without the use of costly and outdated paper map books.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: ESRI is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

ESRI has partnered with Advanced Control Systems to work together to expand the integration between their products in support of emerging smart grid market requirements for increasingly tighter integration between geospatial and real-time smart grid systems. Utility companies will then have tools to automatically synchronize, without the need for cumbersome intermediate files and processes, changes between geographic data in ESRI applications and the real-time database and network feeder models that support ACS smart grid systems including feeder automation, substation automation, and distribution management system applications.

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GE Energy 2728 Hopewell Place NE Calgary, Alberta T1Y 7J7 Canada Tel: (403) 214-4400 Fax: (403) 243-1815 Web site: http://www.gepower.com/ Overview: GE Energy is a global supplier of electricity generation and energy delivery technologies. The company serves all areas of the energy industry, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and other alternative fuels. Its revenue in 2007 was $22 billion.

In July 2008 GE Energy announced plans to acquire MapFrame, a provider of mobile mapping and field automation technologies. In August 2008 GE Energy acquired Kelman Limited, a provider of advanced monitoring and diagnostics technologies for transformers.

Smart Grid Products: GE's Advanced Distribution Infrastructure (ADI) solution is designed to make possible real-time distribution system information as well as to allow utilities to control network assets from the operations center to the customer location. ADI supports applications as diverse as advanced metering, demand response, capacitor bank monitoring, switch control, outage/restoration management, volt/VAR control, fault detection, isolation & restoration (FDIR) and distribution management. The ADI solution is technology-neutral with respect to the various communication protocols. GE’s solution operates over the following communications protocols: RF, PLC, BPL, and Digital Cellular.

GE's family of I-210 residential and kV2C commercial and industrial meters are equipped with interface modules to support two way, real-time reading of consumption, TOU, and interval data from the meter. Additional features supported include: tamper detection, outage/restoration detection, remote meter configuration, demand resets, remote disconnect, and more. GE's business support software enables all of these features to be remotely monitored and controlled from the utility's central office.

An advance control system is not only needed to maintain voltage (LTC Control) and VAR losses (Cap Bank Control) but to coordinate between LTC and Cap Bank control to maintain an optimal voltage level while simultaneously reducing VAR losses. Advanced algorithms within the automation equipment located at the substation or at the Distribution Management System (DMS) control room can accomplish this task.

To limit the number of customers affected by an interruption due to a fault, distribution feeders are broken up into sections isolated by motorized switches or breakers. GE's advanced FDIR algorithm can detect which section of the feeder the fault occurred, quickly isolate that feeder section by operating the isolating switches or breakers and restoring power to the non faulted sections. Thus only those customers on the faulted section are affected by a power outage.

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algorithms such as VOLT/VAR and FDIR.

GE's ENMAC system is a fully integrated, advanced network management solution that completely automates the real-time management, monitoring and control of electrical distribution networks. This system allows control room operators to view real-time measurements on the network, and perform remote telecontrol operations combined with front-end data processing. The ENMAC system integrates customer outages with up-to-date status of the distribution network, providing accurate information to customers concerning the status of power interruptions.

GE also offers a full line of products to automate the substation. The D20/D200 Substation Controller is a central component of GE’s substation automation architecture. It provides data server functionality in a substation-hardened package, while acting as the gateway to SCADA master stations for IEDs in the station, or for downstream substations or feeders. Currently this product is being used in more than 40,000 installations throughout the world.

The D25 is a multifunction IED that incorporates flexible software and support for numerous protocols. Its expandable I/O and CT/PTs for AC inputs along with a powerful DSP card allow each customer to customize their unit for their required application and project. D25 has many applications and can take on many roles.

The D400 Substation Data Manager is a secure, substation hardened, gateway/HMI that polls metering, status, event, and fault report data from IEDs. The D400 also functions as a substation HMI/Annunciator with built in tools for building custom one-line diagrams and annunciator screens. Security compliance is ensured through a collection of network security applications.

The iBOX Controller combines advanced functionality, multiple communication ports and local I/O in a small footprint suitable for both pole-top or pad-mount feeder automation and substation automation applications. Sharing the D20’s large communication protocol and automation application library makes this product a little powerhouse that’s easy to learn for existing D20 customers.

The DART provides fault detection, transducer-less metering, SCADA and communications for one, two or three feeders. This robust pole-top/pad-mount RTU has proven to be reliable in some of the harshest conditions on the planet.

PowerLink Advantage is a full-featured, Web-enabled, local substation graphical user interface or PC-based electric utility small master station. It gathers all of the data from your substations, including IEDs, consolidates it into a single platform and transforms the data into graphic, alarm and dynamic text displays.

tMEDIC is a transformer monitoring unit designed to integrate RTU functionality and transformer monitoring and diagnostic functionality into one product. It is equipped with configurable communication ports supporting many protocols as well as IEC/IEEE transformer models. It also comes with configurable I/O and CT/PTs for AC inputs allowing SCADA systems to take full advantage of its RTU capabilities.



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Key Smart Grid Alliances: GE Energy participates in the Smart Energy Alliance. It has also partnered with Eka Systems, Silver Spring Networks, and SmartSynch.

Key Smart Grid Installations: PacifiCorp has invested in distribution feeder automation products from GE Energy to enable both remote and automatic fault isolation and load transfer capability—enabling fast service restoration to urban area customers after most distribution system faults.



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Intergraph 170 Graphics Drive Madison, AL 35758 Tel: (256) 730-2000 Fax: (256) 730-2048 Web site: http://www.intergraph.com/

Overview: Intergraph is a provider of spatial information management software. It focuses on making geospatial technology more secure so that its clients can benefit from having safer infrastructures. Intergraph is a pioneer of interactive graphics and Windows-based technical computing. It has more than three decades of experience integrating GIS software and systems.

Smart Grid Products: Intergraph's InService outage management software helps utility personnel, both dispatchers and field crews, quickly identify the cause of an outage and efficiently assign and coordinate the necessary resources to restore power or other services as quickly as possible. Its outage management solutions provide a unique geospatial map shared by both dispatchers and field personnel using mobile devices, allowing optimum coordination between dispatcher and crews.

Intergraph's InService Computer Aided Dispatch (I/CAD) system for utilities provides call center and command-and-control room operators with the tools they need to field calls, create and update incidents, and manage an organization's critical resources by providing real-time interaction of crucial data. Combined with historical and local searches, operators are ensured they have the right information available to them when making urgent decisions.

Intergraph's SmartConsole provides a single user interface for both OMS and DA system functionality. This common user interface integrates other real-time data necessary for system operations. Following the industry's smart grid initiative, SmartConsole consolidates and integrates numerous systems into a single integrated user interface, providing a clear common operating picture for the operations control center.

Intergraph's trouble analysis application uses a facilities model with links to customer information systems, automated voice response units, SCADA, or AMI systems to predict the probable cause of an outage.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Intergraph has a Global Alliance Agreement with the Power Generation group of Siemens AG to standardize worldwide on Intergraph's SmartPlant Enterprise suite of software and engineering integration technology.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Enersource Hydro Mississauga signed a contract with Intergraph to integrate and automate the utility’s assets and functions of its electric grid. As part of this Smart Grid solution, the utility’s data will be integrated into a command-and-control environment to improve reliability of power delivery and to increase efficiency. Enersource’s IOM solution will integrate Intergraph’s utilities applications along with Siemens’ Distribution System Power Flow application. The result will be an integrated command-and-control environment.

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Inc. and Intergraph to integrate its outage, mobile workforce and distribution management systems. By selecting Siemens’ Distribution Management System, including its Spectrum Power™ SCADA and Spectrum Power™ DNA products, and InService, Intergraph’s outage management system, Oncor will fully integrate the operational environment for the power grid. The SmartGrid Software System will integrate data, equipment, and associated process changes brought about by existing investments in AMI, BPL, and DA..



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NovaTech 1720 Molasses Way Quakertown, PA 18915 Tel: (484) 812-6000 Fax: (484) 812-6004 Web site: http://www.novatechweb.com/

Overview: NovaTech is a private global technology and engineering services company that provides process automation, SCADA, substation and distribution automation, energy management, and engineering tools and services to Fortune 500 manufacturers, electric utilities, and specialized applications around the globe. It has delivered products and solutions to process manufacturing and electric utility companies for more than 25 years.

NovaTech acquired Bitronics from AREVA T&D in July 2008.

Smart Grid Products: The Orion Automation Platform enables users to quickly and easily integrate and automate an electric utility substation. The OrionLX is designed for an expanded range of substation automation and cyber-security applications. The Orion can use a different protocol for up to sixteen ports with any combination of master and slave protocols on RS232, RS485, or fiber-optic media. NovaTech Communications Director reduces configuration time with intuitive drop-down menus. Multi-dropped devices are supported when protocols and communication media allow. Each port uses hardware buffers for independent high-speed serial data communications. The WEBserver allows anyone with a Web Browser to connect to an Orion and view data from connected IEDs and RTUs. WEBserver displays can range from a single text based screen to detailed substation one-line drawings with multiple password protected drill-down screens for viewing IED data or establishing a pass-through connection with the IED.

The NovaTech Distribution Automation Master (DA-Master) is a NovaTech Orion Automation Platform with specialized software that allows it to function as an independent Master Controller in a single or multi-feeder, single or multi-substation DA System. The DA-Master polls IEDs of multiple makes and models for system information, analyzes the data, and initiates trip-close commands to carry out user-defined system reconfiguration in response to abnormal system conditions. If remote monitoring and control is required, the DA-Master can communicate with the existing SCADA Master or RTU via any of a number of available protocol options.

The M871 IED provides a complete solution for monitoring and recording in substation applications. The advanced measuring, recording, and communications characteristics and utility-grade construction make it suitable for applications in AC distribution and transmission systems.

The M872 IED provides a complete solution for monitoring and recording in substation applications. The advanced measuring, recording, and communications characteristics and utility-grade construction make it suitable for applications in AC distribution and transmission systems. The ability to measure 2 sets of 3-phase voltage and current inputs in one IED provides a cost-effective solution in recording and monitoring

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applications.

The M870D provides users of the 70 Series IEDS the option of a local or remote indication of measured or calculated parameters. It is compatible with previous PowerServe™ versions through software upgrades in the field.

The M571 is a monitoring and recording IED for single line, single or dual bus applications. The M571 IED provides fast and precise electrical measurements, fault records, event records, and trend logs. Optionally, the monitoring of status inputs and the control of relay outputs can be accommodated. This information and control can be provided to multiple clients or masters simultaneously through various protocols and multiple physical links. An option is available for copper and fiber Ethernet ports. The compact form of the M571 is an efficient design with options selected and built-in at time of order. The M571 supports the 70D Display Family of separately mounted displays. The M571 is part of the 70 Series Measurement System using common firmware and software.

The M572 is a monitoring and recording IED for dual line, dual bus applications. By covering two lines or feeders, the M572 provides an economical solution for basic measurement to SCADA data, while also providing advanced recording and communications functions not found in basic measurement devices. The M572 IED provides fast and precise electrical measurements, fault records, event records, and trend logs. Optionally, the monitoring of status inputs and the control of relay outputs can be accommodated. This information and control can be provided to multiple clients or masters simultaneously through various protocols and multiple physical links. An option is available for copper and fiber Ethernet ports. The M572 supports the 70D Display Family of separately mounted displays. The compact form of the M572 is an efficient design with options selected and built-in at time of order. The M572 is part of the 70 Series Measurement System using common firmware and software.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: NovaTech has a strategic partnership agreement with AREVA T&D. AREVA T&D will globally distribute, under the AREVA T&D MiCOM brand, the latest IEDs from Bitronics.

Key Smart Grid Installations: NovaTech has installed the Orion5r Automation Platform for Wisconsin Public Service. The substation automation project installed smart RTUs connected to IEDs, connected a remote interface to protective relays, and integrated existing RTUs.

Two PEPCO Holdings utilities (formerly Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric) are reducing substation automation cost and complexity by applying the Orion5r Automation Platform to perform multiple roles including substation RTU, dial-in port switch and front end to legacy RTUs.

Omaha Public Power District has installed Orion processors and other NovaTech products in substation automation systems and in RTU applications. One of their larger substations uses five Orion5rs to connect 33 Protective Relays and 21 other IEDs (annunciators, regulators, equipment monitors and PLCs).



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Open Systems International 3600 Holly Lane Suite 40 Minneapolis, MN 55447 Tel: (763) 551-0559 Web site: http://www.osii.com/

Overview: Open Systems International, Inc., (OSI) is a supplier of open automation solutions for real-time management and optimization of complex production, transport, and delivery networks for utilities in the electric, oil and gas, transport, and water industries. The company was founded in the early 1990s.

Smart Grid Products: OSI's monarch™ architecture offers a flexible, expandable, and adaptable platform for Energy Management, Distribution Management, Generation Management, and Substation Automation needs of electric utilities. OSI's modular product approach offers a breadth of individual applications for SCADA, Generation Control and Optimization, Transmission Security Analysis, Distribution Network Analysis, Load Management, Voltage Control, and Market Management, as well as broad secure communications interfaces with modern or legacy field devices and control centers.

OSI’s monarch/SGP™ (monarch Smart Grid Platform) offers a solid, elastic and highly scalable platform for utilities that intend to embark on various Smart Grid initiatives. Hyper scalability is built into the platform to support up to multiples of millions of data measurement points. Expanded communications and interfaces are developed to support a wide variety of new devices, meters and phasor measurements, as well as home automation and enterprise integration adaptors. A new generation of analytic applications, business intelligence applications and advanced user interfaces are being developed to address the analyses, optimization and situational awareness reporting of all aspects of transmission, distribution and consumer realms and asset management.

monarch lite™ is a state-of-the-art SCADA system based on various open industry standards, including Intel® Pentium® Servers, Windows® or Linux® operating systems and the DNP™, MODBUS or IEC communications protocols.

e-scada.com™ is a hosted SCADA and application service platform for delivery of automation services via the Web, for monitoring of remote assets or for serving real-time information to industrial customers or end users

OSIRIS™ (OSI Remote Information System) is an innovative and versatile secure remote information and telemetry unit designed for the electric power, oil and gas, and water industries. It is considered a next generation RTU with unsurpassed functionality and features currently unavailable in the industry.

OSI's substation automation strategy brings about a strong and flexible portfolio of solutions based on standard and open APIs and support for all modern protocols. The monarch™ platform can meet the needs of smaller to very large substations able to securely monitor and control a few hundred to thousands of I/O points. A distributed network of I/O devices, as well as IP-based RTUs and IEDs can easily and natively interface with the monarch automation platform. Use of the same monarch technology in the substation will facilitate database, display and other system maintenance tasks and

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will conveniently produce commonality of maintenance between the System Control Center and all substations. OSI's secure and IP-based OSIRIS remote terminal unit is an integral part of the OSI substation solution strategy. With unprecedented functionality, expansion and built-in security, this Linux based RTU facilitates a common and uniform secure vision for substation I/O and communications. For improved reliability and security, a hardened Linux based substation automation solution can provide a formidable alternative to low-tier Windows based solutions and off-the-shelf SCADA software.

Component modules comprising OSI’s Distribution Management solutions portfolio include:

• OpenSTLF - Short-Term Load Forecast

• OpenMap - Distribution Network Management

• OpenDNA - Distribution Network Analysis

• OpenLM - Load Management

• OpenTCM - Trouble Call Management

• OpenGIS - GIS Interface

• OpenAVC - Automatic Voltage/VAR Control

• OpenSOM - Switch Order Management

• OpenFISR - Fault Isolation and Service Restoration

Key Smart Grid Alliances: OSI is a member of the GridWise Alliance. It is also a founding partner in Xcel Energy’s Smart Grid Consortium.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Xcel Energy has started construction on a $100 million Smart Grid project in Boulder, Colorado. The project involves upgrading Xcel’s infrastructure and includes deploying technologies from OSI. The project is expected to be completed in 2010.

OSI has been awarded a contract by Public Service Company of New Mexico to be the supplier of its next-generation Energy Management System technology. The proposed system is based on OSI’s monarch™ distributed open architecture and includes SCADA, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch, Load Shed and Restoration, Operator Training Simulator, Transmission Network Analysis, Historical Information System, Web-based Graphical User Interface, Calculation and Trending subsystem, Disturbance Data Collection and DNP and Secure ICCP communications, as well as a Backup Control Center.

OSI has been awarded a contract by Powerco for implementation of Powerco’s next-generation SCADA and Load Management systems. OSI’s monarch™ system will further Powerco’s ability to control networks and contribute effectively to its technical and engineering mission. With reliability, innovation and customer service as shared characteristics, the monarch solution promises to be a major contributor in Powerco’s pursuit of delivering a constant and reliable supply of electricity to its customers. The proposed system is based on OSI’s innovative monarch distributed open architecture

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and includes SCADA, Historical Information System, Web-based Graphical User Interface, Calculation and Trending subsystem, Open Database Connectivity, Load Management functionality and a Backup Control Center, as well as DNP and ICCP communications. The architecture will be based on a VMware® ESX server configuration.

OSI has been awarded a joint contract by Chugach Electric Association and Anchorage Municipal Light & Power to be the supplier of each utility’s next-generation Energy Management System technology. The proposed systems are based on OSI’s monarch™ distributed open architecture with an advanced Graphical User Interface based on Microsoft’s .NET technology, and include SCADA, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch, Switch Order Management, Inadvertent Accounting, Transaction Management Scheduling, Equipment Outage Scheduling, Real-time and Study Network Analysis, Historical Information/Recording System, Web-based Graphical User Interface, Calculation and Trending subsystem and DNP, Modbus and ICCP communications.



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RuggedCom 30 Whitmore Road, Woodbridge, Ontario L4L 7Z4 Canada Tel: (905) 856-5288 Fax: (905) 856-1995 Web site: http://www.ruggedcom.com/ Overview: RuggedCom designs and manufactures ruggedized communications equipment for harsh electrical and climatic environments. RuggedCom has developed communications products and technologies specifically designed to operate reliably in harsh environments such as those found in electric utility substations. RuggedCom products are designed to provide the communications backbone of the Smart Grid.

Smart Grid Products: RuggedCom’s substation hardened Ethernet switches (RuggedSwitch™) are the choice of electric utilities around the world for implementing reliable substation LANs for intra-substation communications used in mission critical applications including power system protection and control. RuggedCom’s substation hardened cyber security appliances (RuggedRouter™) provides protection against cyber attack on the Smart Grid and a secure method for implementing inter-substation communications across the Smart Grid using a variety of media and technologies. All RuggedCom products are designed for Mean Time Between Failures greater than 500,000 hrs and network availability greater than 99.999%.

RuggedNMS™ is a fully-featured enterprise grade network management software platform designed specifically for the rugged communications industry. It offers monitoring, configuring, and maintaining mission-critical IP-based communications networks, such as those found in substation automation and Smart Grids, intelligent transportation systems, and advanced control and automation for industrial processes.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: RuggedCom is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

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S&C Electric 6601 North Ridge Boulevard Chicago, IL 60626 Tel: (773) 338-1000 Fax: (773) 338-3657 Web site: http://www.sandc.com/ Overview: Founded in 1911, S&C Electric Company provides equipment and services for electric power systems. It designs and manufactures switching and protection products for T&D systems which increase efficiency and reliability of electric power delivery systems, reduce damage caused to equipment during faults, and keep outages minimized by automatically rerouting the flow of electricity. S&C also provides services for engineering, laboratory, and testing for electric utilities, as well as for commercial, industrial, and institutional power systems.

Smart Grid Products: S&C offers three categories of DA products: overhead switching and protection; underground switching and protection; and controls, software, and communications. It also provides distribution and automation services including reliability studies, project management, and installation, training, and commissioning. Its automation solutions are designed to help utilities monitor critical feeders, decrease the duration of power outages, and help with load shifting during overload conditions.

IntelliTEAM II is a modular system that uses distributed intelligence and peer-to-peer communication to dynamically track system conditions on overhead and underground distribution systems, and provide fast, fully automatic fault isolation and service restoration for critical customers. IntelliTEAM II technology supports systems of virtually any size. It works with as many switches as line loading will allow, and it can accommodate tie points from multiple sources. Circuits can be routinely loaded higher with IntelliTEAM II. The excess capacity of adjacent sources can be used to restore service to unfaulted segments, helping defer the need for system upgrades and allowing you to tie circuits traditional planning criteria would not permit. IntelliTEAM II not only provides out-of-the-box restoration power, but the flexibility to select the priority of restoration.

The IntelliTEAM II Universal Interface Module (UIM) enables substation relays and breakers to operate as part of the IntelliTEAM II Automatic Restoration System, helping to further minimize the impact of an outage. Interfaced with the substation microprocessor relay, the UIM provides full team-member logic and communication capabilities. The UIM allows IntelliTEAM II logic, after the loss of substation bus voltage, to restore power to the line segment between the substation breaker and the first switch. The UIM can also allow an additional reclose attempt, if desired, and still restore all unfaulted line sections.

S&C’s 5800 Series® Automatic Switch Controls combine sophisticated automatic control schemes with RTU functions, data logging, and advanced communications capabilities in one integrated package. The S&C M Series® Switch Operator is a fully integrated, microprocessor-based control that lets utilities automate almost any distribution-class switch. By combining and testing the electromechanical components, RTU, control, and communications as a single package, we also added intelligence, increased reliability, and reduced costs. S&C Communication and Control Units are custom-engineered

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packages which accommodate a wide range of automation approaches and strategies for S&C’s overhead DA products. These custom-engineered devices can accommodate most user-specified remote terminal units and communication devices.

S&C’s IntelliRupter PulseCloser is a unique alternative to an automatic circuit recloser. It was designed from the ground up to accommodate advanced DA functions including S&C’s IntelliTEAM II, along with SCADA functionality. IntelliRupter utilizes S&C’s revolutionary new PulseClosing™ Technology to test for faults. PulseClosing applies a very fast, low-energy pulse to the line — significantly reducing damaging fault currents and voltage sags on the faulted line as well as adjacent feeders. Substation transformers experience fewer through-faults, extending their life. Cables, conductors, splices, and terminations experience less thermal and mechanical stress from through-faults too. IntelliRupter includes a base-integrated control that’s accessed for configuration and operation via a secure WiFi link.

S&C’s TripSaver Dropout Recloser, offered in system class voltage ratings of 15 and 25 kV, is ideally suited for lateral circuits that frequently experience momentary faults. TripSaver eliminates the permanent outages which can result when lateral fuses operate in response to these momentary faults. TripSaver also eliminates the momentary interruptions on feeders in instances where the substation breaker is tripped to save the lateral fuse during a momentary fault.

S&C’s Scada-Mate Switching Systems support automating overhead distribution feeders. All functions necessary for such applications—sensing, control, and communications—are provided in one economical, completely self-contained integrated package. They provide remote fault isolation and service restoration, system optimization, and a wide range of controls matching automation objectives

S&C’s Scada-Mate CX Switching Systems are three-pole, group-operated interrupter switches specifically designed for automating overhead distribution systems. Circuit making and circuit breaking are accomplished within sealed interrupters, in a controlled sulfur hexafluoride environment.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Through the GridApp Consortium, S&C and DTE Energy teamed up on a DOE project to test and install S&C’s TripSaver™ Dropout Recloser. This pilot had the goal of finding a new tool to relieve some of the traditional reliability issues that have hindered utilities and their customers in the past.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Oncor installed the first IntelliRupter PulseCloser in the U.S. at a site in Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas. The installation is part of the utility’s efforts to develop the Smart Grid. The device will be able to communicate with other devices on Oncor’s system, and coordinate the utility’s automated power restoration systems.

Oncor Electric Delivery was the first utility to install S&C’s TripSaver Dropout Recloser. Oncor installed three of these devices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, in heavily wooded areas. Oncor is installing these devices as a part of a Smart Grid initiative.



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SensorTran 4401 Freidrich Lane Suite 307 Austin, TX 78744 Tel: (512) 583-3520 Web site: http://www.sensortran.com/ Overview: SensorTran is a NASA technology spin-off company that designs and supplies rugged and reliable fiber optic-based Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) systems and solutions. SensorTran offers complete distributed monitoring solutions that can be implemented in power cable monitoring.

Smart Grid Products: The DTS 5100 range of intelligent DTS systems provide real-time dynamic temperature with high accuracy and fine resolution, providing up to 40,000 discrete temperature points along optical fiber. SensorTran DTS technologies provide world-beating signal-to-noise ratio which, together with advanced data processing techniques, provides the fastest measurement speeds in the industry.

The DTS Enterprise IS suite consists of three applications designed to address very distinct areas of business need. DTS Commander is installed on all SensorTran DTS systems. It is the primary application needed to set up, configure, calibrate, and manage DTS deployment on a day-to-day basis. This application comes with the ability to run OTDR and Temperature Trace data in a standard graphical view, to set alarms and warnings, to define zones, and to manage restart capabilities and self-diagnostic tools. Additionally, DTS Commander includes a simple dashboard that adds historical data playback functionality for standard temperature traces, and previews the interface offered in the SensorTran AssetViewer.

The AssetViewer is a DTS analysis tool, offering the ability to view temperature data mapped against the actual asset being monitored. SensorTran has developed a library of asset visualizations and will be adding to that library progressively over time. In addition to visualizations, the AssetViewer includes a modular, fully customizable interface with drag & drop management, as well as extensive analysis tools including thresholding, standard deviation analysis, averaging, etc.

The DataWarehouse is a key product in readying DTS usage for enterprise environments. It enables sharing of DTS data across the enterprise utilizing a “hub & spoke” model, which is a common implementation approach for data warehouses in the information technology world. The DataWarehouse provides a solution for running multiple DTS systems concurrently, sharing that data back via a centralized data store, and controlling access to that data via client-side installations of the AssetViewer

SensorTran offers a range of communication modules to complement their DTS systems. These modules provide automated and robust interfaces to third party systems and networks for data transfer, remote view and remote control. The DTS5100 series has been designed with an open communications architecture which provides for simple and effective networking and communications.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: SensorTran is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

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Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution 7000 Siemens Road Wendell, NC 27591 Tel: (919) 365-2200 Web site: https://www.energy-portal.siemens.com/irj/portal/ptdus/public/en/global-01/home_ext Overview: Since 1847 Siemens has been recognized as a global leader in electrical engineering and electronics. Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution, (Siemens PT&D) was established to serve the growing needs of the electric power industry.

Smart Grid Products: SICAM PAS (Power Automation System) can meet all the demands made by a distributed substation control system – both now and in the future too. SICAM PAS was conceived as an open system. Besides providing standardized data transfer processes, it features user interfaces for the integration of system-specific tasks. SICAM PAS can be integrated with ease in existing systems and can be used for system integration too. With modern diagnostics, it optimally supports commissioning and maintenance. SICAM PAS is clearly structured and reliable, thanks to its open, fully documented and tested system.

SICAM StationManager II combines extensive IED integration capabilities, an IEC 1131 compliant programming interface, some of the best configuration and diagnostic tools in the industry, and various advanced features like WAN support, data encryption and HTML server capabilities, to make it a perfect Substation Data Concentrator.

The TG5700 RTU employs a unique Power and I/O LAN to connect the I/O modules to the Central Processing Unit, the StationManager. The TG5700 provides 1ms time stamping, Select-Before-Operate controls, Momentary Change Detect, accumulator freeze, communications buffering and Sequence of Event recording, the TG5700 is a Communications Gateway, a Programmable Logic Controller and an HTML server.

SICAM Diamond is a Web-based operating and monitoring system and uses modern client-server architecture. It can be used to monitor the system interfaces, to indicate switching device states (and up-to-the date measured values), and also for further diagnostic purposes.

WinCC (Windows Control Center) is an advanced object-oriented, HMI. When used in conjunction with the SICAM PCC or SICAM SAS, WinCC auto populates the SCADA and alarm databases - eliminating the potential for database mismatches and saving time. For comprehensive HMI applications, Siemens offers PAS CC based on WinCC. Offering some for the most advanced features in the industry, PAS CC can be used for local control and monitoring, data distribution via OPC, data publishing via the web, and much more.

The Telegyr 5700 RTU combines innovative hardware architecture, a comprehensive protocol library, a wide array of I/O modules, advanced communication abilities (including support for encryption and HTML publishing), the best configuration tool in the market and an enviable track record for reliability, to create the premier medium to large point-count RTU.

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Spectrum Power TG is the most reliable, scalable, flexible, highly available, SCADA system on the market for electric, gas, and water utilities and railways. Optional modular components add powerful energy management applications for generation, transmission, and distribution. The Spectrum Power TG system is designed to accommodate a broad range of utility networks.

Key Smart Grid Alliances: Siemens PT&D is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

Siemens and eMeter have a global, joint development and supply agreement for the sale and implementation of eMeter’s EnergyIP MDM software. Siemens will provide a global EnergyIP sales and delivery channel including installation, configuration and first line support. eMeter will support Siemens’ sales providing EnergyIP software, globalization and advanced support.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Enersource Hydro Mississauga has signed with Siemens and Intergraph to integrate and automate the various assets and functions of its power grid. The SmartGrid implementation will result in greater efficiency and safety, as well as more reliable power to Enersource customers. Enersource’s IOM solution will combine Intergraph’s utilities applications with Siemens’ Distribution System Power Flow application to create an integrated command-and-control environment. Intergraph will fuse its InService outage management capabilities with geospatial and other data it provides on Enersource’s infrastructure and 865,000 assets including transformers, utility poles, meters, conductors and others, as well as network devices, meters and other sensor data.

Oncor Electric Delivery has selected a joint solution from Siemens PT&D and Intergraph to integrate its outage, mobile workforce and distribution management systems. By selecting Siemens' Distribution Management System, including its Spectrum Power™ SCADA and Spectrum Power™ DNA products, and InService, Intergraph's outage management system, Oncor will fully integrate the operational environment for the power grid. The SmartGrid Software System will integrate data, equipment, and associated process changes brought about by existing investments in AMI, BPL, and DA.



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Telvent Valgrande, 6 28108 Alcobendas. Madrid Spain Tel: +34 91 714 70 00 Fax: +34 91 714 70 01 Web site: http://www.telvent.com/

Overview: Telvent provides IT solutions that are sustainable and secure. It helps businesses achieve more efficient and secure real-time management of their operations. Telvent’s measurement and control systems and services assist companies in managing their critical data and infrastructure for three main areas: electricity, oil and gas. The company has more than 40 years of experience in industrial supervisory control and business process management systems.

Smart Grid Products: Telvent’s Smart Grid Solutions Suite integrates OASyS SCADA, the ArcFM GIS, the outage management Responder OMS, and DMS functionality.

Telvent provides integrated protection, measurement and control systems to substation of all voltage levels using a unique approach that combines its own products, such as the Saitel and subCAT families of Remote Intelligent Units, with third-party products including industry-leading protective relays, meter devices, manufacturers, etc. Saitel suites deliver robust, reliable, open, expandable, flexible, state-of-the-art control platforms capable of handling the monitoring, control, automation and communications for transmission substations of all sizes by virtue of their rich library of standard and legacy communication protocols, advances software tools, modularity and high processing capability.

Telvent’s DMS is a suite of real-time and study mode applications designed to support and enhance on-line distribution SCADA operations. The applications are seamlessly integrated with the OASyS SCADA system to provide a consistent user interface and also make the applications accessible from any operator or engineering Workstation within the enterprise.

ArcFM 9, a powerful extension of ESRI’s ArcGIS platform, is a complete enterprise utility solution for editing, modeling, maintenance and management of facility and land base information for electric, gas and water/wastewater utilities. ArcFM takes advantage of an industry-standard architecture and programming environments, an easy-to-use interface, and powerful cartographic tools, giving utilities an optimized solution for the entire organization.

Telvent Metering System (TMS) is based on Echelon’s NES, which utilizes an open, bidirectional, and extensible infrastructure to enable a comprehensive range of utility applications. TMS is supported by a complete system software platform to supervise and communicate with data concentrators as needed to deliver smart metering services. It provides a standards-based web services applications, enabling simple integration to Java, .NET, or other web services aware applications and infrastructure from companies such as IBM, BEA Systems, Microsoft, Sun, HP, and Oracle.

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Key Smart Grid Alliances: Telvent is a member of the GridWise Alliance.

Telvent has a joint venture with the DMS Group LLC. The joint venture, Telvent DMS LLC Novi Sad, will allow Telvent to have a direct input in DMS technology research and development plans, thereby aligning the product direction to further support Telvent’s Smart Grid initiative. The DMS Group created the DMS software product, a modern system that is already part of Telvent’s Smart Grid Solution suite.

Key Smart Grid Installations: Telvent completed the Amrelva project installation with Sweden’s Vattenfall to supply and manage the automatic remote electric meter reading system. Telvent acted as main meter supplier by providing 600,000 of the 850,000 total meters. A total of 583,000 households are set to use the automatic remote reading systems started up by Telvent; users are now able to control electric consumption costs at any time from their homes. This real-time technology also enables a reduction in billing errors, and contributes to increase customer satisfaction.



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Technology Alliances Advanced Grid Infrastructure Initiative Elster Electricity 208 S. Rogers Lane Raleigh, NC 27610 Tel: (919) 212-4714 Web site: http://www.elster-eis.com/en/AGI_Initiative.html Overview: Elster’s Advanced Grid Infrastructure (AGI) Initiative provides the utility industry with a powerful set of hardware, software, and communications solutions needed to more effectively manage power distribution networks. AGI builds on Elster’s EnergyAxis System’s AMI communications and metering infrastructure by adding advanced measurement and monitoring nodes and software applications to extend the reach of your AMI investment to the distribution system itself.

Members: ABB, Elster, FieldMetrics, Lindsey, Sensorlink

Smart Grid Activities: Elster is hosting a series of information workshops as part of its AGI Initiative. Elster’s Outage and Restoration Management and Transformer Information Node workshops are part of a series of AGI sessions in which participants are provided with detailed information on implementing and using smart meters as part of Elster’s AGI Initiative. The workshops allow Elster’s technology partners to meet with the Elster team and their utility customers to discuss topics relevant to realizing a smarter distribution grid.

Burlington Hydro will pilot a new, innovative loss detection application with Elster, ABB, and FieldMetrics as part of the AGI Initiative. The loss detection pilot is an innovative application combining AMI, new sensor technology, and a head-end application to detect technical and non-technical system losses.

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GridApp Consortium 100 CTC Drive Johnstown, PA 15904 Tel: (814) 269-2786 Web site: https://www.gridapp.org/ Overview: Launched in December 2004, the Advanced Grid Application Consortium (GridApp™) is a partnership comprised of electric utilities and the DOE. The goal of GridApp is to increase consortium member utilities’ use of the best technologies and best practices for supporting a modernized Smart Grid. Transitioning these “high-impact technologies” into widespread use is a key component of the consortium’s activities.

GridApp is managed and organized by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, an independent, nonprofit organization focusing on applied research and development professional services. The consortium is sponsored by the DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). Funding is provided by the DOE OE, as well as by utility members.

Members: Consortium membership eligibility is restricted to utilities that provide significant electricity generation and T&D services throughout the U.S. Two levels of membership are available: 1) Charter companies must provide a technology as a Core Project, as well as non-monetary support towards completion of beta-testing; 2) Sponsor members must pay membership fees each year to fund Strategic Projects.

GridApp is comprised of four Charter Members – Concurrent Technologies, DTE Energy, FirstEnergy, and Southern California Edison. It also has five Sponsor Members – Exelon, Idaho Power, Portland General Electric, PPL Electric Utilities, and Salt River Project.

Smart Grid Activities: GridApp engages in three categories of projects – Core Projects, Strategic Projects, and Elective Projects. Current projects are discussed below.

Coordinated Control – DTE Energy seeks to create a model-based Hierarchical Control Scheme that uses a harmonious control to make devices in an electrical distribution circuit operate as efficiently as possible.

Synchronized Phasor Measurement System – Southern California Edison has developed the Power Systems Outlook, a software application designed to enable offline viewing and analysis of Synchronized Phasor Measurement Systems (SPMS). Grid operators use the SPMS to identify how much stress is on the electric system, but the challenge lies in interpreting the information providing by the SPMS. This project enables GridApp members to use SCE’s software system for three years license-free, receiving training for using the software, and other related tasks.

Autonomous Storm Detector – Adaptive relaying is a technique used for decreasing power outages caused by lightning strikes, heavy winds, or other weather phenomena. Currently this technique can only be used if a substation has a SCADA system capable of changing the relay settings. FirstEnergy is demonstrating autonomous adaptive relaying capabilities that do not require connection to a SCADA system. If the implementation is successful, it will allow relay settings to be changed automatically

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based on current weather conditions at any given moment.

GenOnSys – This project seeks to integrate distributed energy resources, including generators and energy storage technologies. Portland General Electric’s GenOnSys is a software application that gives utilities the ability to monitor distributed energy resources via a SCADA system. The software provides data acquisition and reporting capabilities to help accomplish this task.

Advanced Capacitor Control System – This project seeks to install automated capacitor control systems in order to improve customer power quality and enhance T&D efficiency in the most cost-effective way possible. The project will attempt to overcome frequent problems Idaho Power has related to voltage and reactive power management, and will move the ACCS product into commercialized use.

Trip Saver – The S&C TripSaver Dropout Recloser system is being tested by DTE Energy to demonstrate that it can reduce temporary outages caused by faults on overhead distribution circuits. These faults result in lost revenues for utilities and require personnel to travel to the customer’s location, find and replace the blown fuse, or turn a substation breaker back on. Test results will be evaluated at S&C’s test facility and will include analysis by S&C’s engineers, DTE Energy’s experts, research facility experts, and other members.



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GridWise Alliance 1155 15th Street NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005 Tel: (202) 530-5910 Fax: (202) 530-0659 Web site: http://www.gridwise.org/ Overview: The GridWise Alliance is a consortium of public and private stakeholders who share a common vision of making the electric grid more efficient, integrated, cost-effective, reliable, and capable of supporting the digital economy. It provides a forum in which members can share ideas and cooperate to reach solutions. Members of the Alliance represent a diverse range of interests, but all are interested in transitioning the electric grid of the industrial age into that of the information age. Members have the opportunity to address federal and state policy makers, while teaming up with industry leaders to enact real change within the grid. The DOE is participating in this collaborative venture. The Alliance has created an Action Plan to identify what challenges are faced by the electric industry today, and to suggest solutions that would effectively move to the grid towards meeting the power needs of the 21st century.

Members: Members of the GridWise Alliance include ABB, Accenture, Aegis Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, American Electric Power, Ambient, Arcadian Networks, AREVA T&D Automation & Information Systems, Autodesk, Austin Energy, BC Hydro, Beacon Power, Bonneville Power Administration, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Cellnet+Hunt, CenterPoint Energy, Cisco Systems, CMEA Ventures, Computer Sciences, Con Edison, Constellation Energy, Consumers Energy, Cooper Power Systems, CURRENT Group, Duke Energy, Eka Systems, Elster Integrated Solutions, Energy Insights, The EnergySolve Companies, EPRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute, General Electric, GridPoint, HP, IBM, Itron, KEMA Consulting, Lockheed Martin, MainNet Communications, Microsoft, Midwest ISO, Milsoft Utility Solutions, National Grid, Open Systems International, monarch/SGP, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Progress Energy, Public Service Electric and Gas, PJM Interconnection, RockPort Capital Partners, SAIC, SAP AG, San Diego Gas & Electric, SensorTran, Serveron, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution, Site Controls, SmartSynch, Telvent, Tendril Networks, Tollgrade Communications, Tennessee Valley Authority, Utilities Telecom Council, and ZIV.

Smart Grid Activities: In 2004 the GridWise Alliance and the DOE established a Memorandum of Understanding in which they agreed to collaborate to make the modernized grid a reality. Four major goals were established: 1) use information technologies to revolutionize energy systems in the same manner that these technologies have changed the face of other major business sectors; 2) develop and implement solutions that transcend industry and regulatory limits, while bringing value to participants; 3) develop the power grid into an information-rich, flexible, adaptive system in order to increase security and reliability; and 4) give consumers an ability to actively participate in their own energy program so that they can receive benefits associated with this participation.

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Alliance identifies these challenges as:

• Developing and deploying innovative new technologies required to modernize the grid – This includes identifying and filling in any gaps in current technology; creating a communications framework to enable different industries and businesses to work together effectively, and developing a compelling demonstration agenda to convince the industry and the public that a modernized grid is needed.

• Reinventing the industry’s infrastructure to enable such innovation – This includes identifying and overcoming any regulatory barriers preventing deployment of innovative Smart Grid technologies; creating sufficient incentives to encourage investment in new technologies and infrastructure; creating new business models that support the deployment of advanced solutions; and encouraging innovative, high-value business partnerships.

• Developing and spreading the word about the vision and value of a modernized grid in order speed up the necessary changes – This includes gaining support for a modernized grid; allowing new ideas and concepts to be heard; and convincing stakeholders that any benefits achieved by a modernized grid will be real and fairly distributed.



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NewEnergy Alliance Constellation NewEnergy 12th Floor 111 Market Place Baltimore, MD 21202 Tel: (866) 237-7693 Web site: http://www.newenergy.com/ Overview: In May 2008 Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, announced the creation of the NewEnergy Alliance. The goal of this group is to promote innovations in the building automation industry and in demand response. Such innovations should help make buildings and building practices “smarter” and more environmentally sound. The alliance seeks to make these buildings capable of responding to changes in energy markets, and to have them reduce energy consumption as needed. Members of the alliance will collaborate to develop new building automation innovations, share best practices, and share technologies and strategies to achieve their goals.

Members: Constellation NewEnergy will participate in the NewEnergy Alliance through its subsidiary, Constellation Alliance, LLC. Other participants include leading equipment manufacturers, building automation companies, system integrators and software application businesses. The founding members include: Cimetrics, Clasma, Constellation Alliance, LLC, Delta Controls Inc., Energy Control Inc., Gridlogix, LonMark International, Novar, Richards-Zeta, and Tridium.

Smart Grid Activities: Participants are currently working on developing a new electricity load response model that will offer even more benefits than those offered by current utility-driven demand response programs.

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NextGrid Now Alliance EnerNex Corporation 620 Mabry Hood Road Suite 300 Knoxville, TN 37932 Tel: (865) 691-5540 Fax: (865) 691-5046 Web site: http://enernex.com/ Overview: In April 2007 a group of companies announced the formation of a new alliance called the NextGrid NOW Alliance. NextGrid NOW aims to help municipal and cooperative utilities meet the requirements of the future smart grid. Compared to large investor-owned and public power companies, rural cooperatives, state and municipal utilities face greater challenges in modernizing their electric grids. Municipal/state utilities suffer from significantly outdated infrastructure and equipment, along with insufficient capital investment in new technologies. NextGrid NOW seeks to address these challenges to help modernize municipal and cooperative utilities.

Members: The founding members of the alliance are EnerNex, UTInnovation, GridAgents, Arcadian Networks, and Horizon Energy Group.

Smart Grid Activities: The alliance provides cost-effective and comprehensive services designed to assist utilities plan, develop, implement, and manage a successful path towards modernizing the T&D grid. These services include mission-critical wireless broadband communications infrastructure for T&D automation, advanced metering strategies, advanced monitoring and control schemes, smart grid strategies, and more.

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Smart Energy Alliance Web site: http://www.smart-energy-alliance.com/ Overview: The Smart Energy Alliance (SEA), comprised of six leading technology companies, was created in 2006 to help utilities turn such distribution planning challenges into opportunities to transform the entire utility organization. The SEA believes that tomorrow’s distribution grid is possible if only utilities will begin developing a roadmap now. The SEA members are working with utilities on asking questions and coming up with plans for improving the value of distribution inside the house, from the house to the transformer to the substation, inside the substation and in the operations center.

Members: Participating companies include CapGemini, Cisco Systems, GE Energy, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Oracle.

Smart Grid Activities: SEA has six offerings designed to help utility customers achieve and maintain a competitive advantage in their distribution operations.

Distribution Roadmap Workshop: SEA offers a series of workshops over a week to help a utility company determine if it has a solid view on the future of distribution. The workshop, based on five years of innovation by the CEA Technologies’ Distribution Roadmap project, also helps a utility company start down the path to a smart grid, develop a broad cross-section of the engineering and planning required to implement the idea of a smart grid, and foster a full understanding of the capabilities of the SEA.

Smart Metering Solution: With this solution, SEA implements a two-way network to automatically collect data from energy meters. Data is transferred to a central database over a common network. This can enable more advanced capabilities such as pre-paid metering, distribution SCADA, and smart meter agents. The Smart Metering Solution can help reduce cost of meter reads, eliminate “Hard to Read”, “Missed Reads” and inaccurate reads, improve theft detection, provide faster and accurate billing for rate payer and utility, and improve tax and government reporting.

Workforce Management Solution: The SEA Workforce Management Solution provides the leading tools and methodology to manage a unified workforce of contracted and utility owned crews. This solution helps drive better crew retention, lower operations costs, improve emergency response times, and provide greater flexibility of crew\task assignments.

Forecasting Solution: As manufacturers today are building equipment to the nameplate specifications, the grid is becoming less forgiving of being overloaded. The SEA Forecasting solution addresses this issue through a unique “bottom up” forecasting approach. The solution builds to the unique characteristics of each piece of equipment on the grid to provide visibility into problem areas in the grid before equipment breaks and customers are without power.

Distribution SCADA Solution: Utilizing AMR and other grid agent data points, SEA’s Distribution SCADA solution enables improved awareness of the distribution grid health and operational management. With the two-way communication data from meters and agents provide a near real-time view of the distribution grid. Distribution SCADA is a key

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building block of the SEA distribution management and control system. Working together, SEA partners can help utilities provide faster response to network outages, reduce O&M costs, increase network reliability and reduce regulatory penalties.

IP to the Field Solution: In today’s utility industry, the field work force can have as many as six different handsets with which to communicate. The SEA IP to the Field Solution consolidates multiple handsets into a single device, enabling more efficient and cost-effective communication between the field and other locations. The solution is based on a single IP data communications foundation. Many utilities are struggling to move beyond the current environment which limits growth and flexibility, and results in greater operational costs. North American utilities are taking advantage of this solution as they plan for the move to Voice-Over-IP solutions and comply with looming NERC cyber-security standards. Recent global weather tragedies highlight the importance of inter-utility communication capabilities, and the SEA IP to the Field Solution can vastly improve inter-utility communication during such crises.



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ZigBee Alliance Web site: http://www.zigbee.org/ Overview: The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of over 260 companies collaborating to promote the development of ZigBee wireless technology. ZigBee is a wireless language that is used around the world to connect vastly different devices, enabling them to work together seamlessly and provide better quality of living for customers. The Alliance seeks to make ZigBee the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for energy, residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Alliance members represent 28 countries. Collectively they share a goal of bringing about reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. Alliance members may add their input to the ZigBee specification development and produce ZigBee products.

Members: The ZigBee Alliance offers three levels of membership: Promoter, Participant, and Adopter. Its participants include Aclara, Ad-Sol Nissin Corporation, AIJI System, Airbee Wireless, Inc., Alektrona Corporation, Alertme.com, Alinta Asset Management, Alpha Systems, Inc., AMX Corporation, Arch Rock Corporation, Assa Abloy AB, Atalum SA, Atmel Corporation, BGE, Black&Decker, Blueline Innovations, Inc., California Eastern Laboratories, Cambridge Consultants, Cannon Technologies, CASON Engineering Plc., CCL/ITRI, CenterPoint Energy Service, Certicom Corporation, Cirronet Incorporated, Computime International Limited, Comverge, Inc., Consumers Energy, Control4, Convergence Wireless, Inc., Crane Co., Crossbow Technology, Inc., CSIR, Cypress Semiconductor, Daintree Networks, Inc., DataPath, Inc., Develco A/S, Digi International, Dresser, Inc., DTE Energy, Dust, Inc., Eaton Corporation, Eka Systems, Inc., ELDAT GmbH, Electrochem, Elster, embeX GmbH, Energate, Inc., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Eurotech Group, Exegin Technologies, Ltd., FedEx Corporate Services, Inc., Fisher Pierce OLC/Sunrise Technologies, Inc., France Telecom, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Frontline Test Equipment, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Gigatek, Inc., Golden Power Manufacturing, Ltd., GreenPeak, GridPoint, Inc., Grundfos Management, Hitachi, Ltd., IMI (formerly Eazix, Inc.), Inovonics Wireless Corporation, Insta Elektro GmbH, Institute for Information Industry, Institute of Network Technologies (INT), Integration Associates, Iskraemeco, d.d., Jennic Limited, Johnson Controls, Kaba, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., KETI (Korea Electronics Technology Institute), Korwin, KTL (Laboratory Accreditation Solution Ltd.), LEGRAND, LG Electronics, Inc., Light Corporation, LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd., LS Research, LLC, Marlin Controls, Inc., MeshNetics, Microchip Technology, Mikrokrets AS, Mindteck (India) Limited, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Nagano Keiki Co., Ltd., Nanotron Technologies GMBH, National ICT Australia, Ltd., National Instruments, National Technical Systems, NEC Electronics Corporation, NEC Engineering, Ltd., Neptune Technology Group, Inc., NICE SpA, Niko, NXP Semiconductors, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Oncor Electric Delivery, One RF Technology, OTSL, Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), Powercor Australia, Ltd., RadioPulse, Inc., Reliant Energy, Inc., Renesas Technology Corporation, RF Technologies, Inc., Rincon Research Corporation, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., San Diego Gas & Electric, San Juan Software, Inc., Sensus Metering Systems, SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Silicon Laboratories, Silver Spring Networks, Skyley Networks, Inc., SmartSynch, Inc., Software Technologies Group, Inc., Southern California Edison, Telecom Italia s.p.a. TILAB, Telefonica I+D, Telegesis, TELIT Communications SPA, Trane, Trilliant Networks, Inc., Tritech Technology AB,

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TSC Systems, TUV Rheinland of North America, TXU Energy, Uniband Electronic Corporation, Viconics Electronics, Inc., Victorian Dept. of Primary Industries (Energy & Earth Resources Policy), Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc., WAVECOM, Yamatake Corporation, and Yokogawa Electric Corporation.

Smart Grid Activities: Utilities led by American Electric Power, Consumers Energy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Reliant Energy, Sempra, and Southern California Edison are working with the ZigBee Alliance and the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance to develop a common application layer integrated solution for AMI and HAN. Using the robust capabilities of the ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile as a baseline, the three groups will expand the application layer and enable it to run on HomePlug technology, providing utilities with both wireless and wired HAN industry standards to select from when implementing new AMI programs. Creating a unified solution using the leading open wireless and wired standards will expand the development and certification of devices such as thermostats, pool pumps, water heaters and other high energy use devices ideally suited for connection to a HAN.

The ZigBee Alliance has announced public availability of its ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ZigBee Smart Energy is a ready-to-use solution offering utilities and technology suppliers a secure, interoperable, easy-to-use wireless global standard for developing products that improve energy management and efficiency for both consumers and corporations. ZigBee Smart Energy enables wireless two-way communication between utility companies and common household devices, empowering consumers to manage their energy usage more precisely. ZigBee Smart Energy allows utility companies to implement more sophisticated programs for greater energy management, and to respond to government demands for energy efficiency.

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