Calico Energy's Unified Operations Center: One-stop energy management for utilities

Some specifics, please?

First, EIS isn't one solution. It's a combination of several. If your utility comes to Calico Energy for help with, say, EV charging management or demand response programs, the OpCenter is part of the package. Other solutions Calico offers include direct load control, cascading control and, as noted earlier, a module to help utilities find ways to improve reliability while reducing costs.

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In addition to the features already mentioned, the OpCenter includes an adaptive rate and pricing engine tool utilities can use to develop, model and implement new rates. A bonus for utilities with a single fixed rate, it offers them the ability to identify new and better rate models to help justify rates to regulators. A new user interface in the OpCenter's head-end demand side management model (DSM) makes it a simple chore to maximize energy use and to engage with customers. Administrative time is cut down because electric gas and water information is in a centralized location.

The partner pool

Calico Energy also has an extensive partnership network, companies it works with that provide a variety of solutions within its solutions. If you're a regular or even a casual SGN reader, you've seen these names in our pages several times: Silver Spring Networks, Aclara, Digi International, Schneider Electric, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Elster and more.

While Calico Energy has been considered to be flying under the radar, SGN readers nominated and voted for the company as one of the top 11 companies to watch in 2011 – apparently for good reason.

Disclosure: Jesse Berst, SGN founder and chief analyst, is an advisor for Calico Energy.

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