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The Echelon smart grid vision goes beyond the smart meters the San Jose, CA-based company may be best known for. Rather, the Echelon smart grid ecosystem extends from the power plant to the plug, as the company puts it. As a result, Echelon smart grid solutions include a range of products that electric utilities around the world use to monitor and manage infrastructure, plus an array of devices and control systems that permit commercial and residential customers to optimize energy usage.
A key piece of the Echelon smart grid strategy is its Control Operating System (COS) open software platform that runs on its Edge Control Node (ECN). The Echelon smart grid system has been Verizon 3G certified, giving device makers and utilities an additional communications option in addition to Echelon's own powerline communications.
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Put on a hat and pour yourself a mint julep because it's post time for this week's smart grid derby. Our stable of winners includes Toshiba, selected to help TEPCO with its smart meter deployment, and Echelon, which has a gig in Zimbabwe. Click to see who else made the winners' circle this week.
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A municipal power agency in South Carolina picked a smart grid communications provider and Austria's largest utility picked an advanced grid sensor vendor for its smart meter pilot. Click for details on those wins and others on this week's smart grid winners' list.
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We have some hefty wins on our list this week - from a $68.5 million Canadian contract to a $260 million order in Oregon. See who snagged those and other awards, and check our M&A win section to see which Texas company Toshiba just acquired.
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We're into Day 2 presenting this year's nominations for Smart Grid Companies to Watch, and we've got another interesting group of companies. Click to read the nominations and to vote on the company you think most deserves to make it into the next round.
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Two Florida utilities pick metering partners, TVA taps a new residential audit tool, PJM Interconnection picks a FERC Order 755 compliant solution and San Diego Zoo uses locally produced PV panels. Click to learn who all of these smart grid wins went to (plus details on seven more wins - including two companies with new financing rounds).
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Echelon has targeted China as a key growth region - taking a slightly different approach than many other smart meter vendors. Working with Chinese partners, Echelon points to some good early results. But there's even more to the story when you consider the implications for other vendors.
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Echelon announced a new set of software apps that enable network operators to monitor the health of distribution transformers, rapidly detect and respond to outages, and identify technical and commercial losses in the low-voltage network.
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With the introduction of its new software, smart meters from Echelon and its partners can now be upgraded in the field to function as grid sensors. One advantage for utilities coping with data deluge is that the new meters are able to separate billing data from grid power quality data - for instance voltage, frequency and power factor.
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Echelon has introduced new technology capable of providing utilities with both automated metering and low-voltage grid optimization - and it's a hit in Asia where several meter makers intend to take advantage of its capabilities in their home markets and elsewhere.
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The Wabash Valley Power Association is the first utility to go live with the Siemens Demand Response Management System. And across the ocean, Ringeriks-Kraft says it will be the first distribution company in Norway to implement a smart metering system. Those are just two of six smart grid first claims we thought you'd be interested in.
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Brazil will be the next major market for smart meter sales, and Echelon has its foot in the door early thanks to its somewhat different approach. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has a few comments inside.
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Platforms are a good thing for utilities, and slowly but surely more choices are emerging. Just this week Echelon announced its first platform partnership and On-Ramp Wireless said it's now providing a platform for utility automation. Click for more on these developments and why platforms are so important for grid applications.
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Echelon's just-announced cloud-based smart metering solution for a small Danish cooperative spurred our resident smart grid insider Jesse Berst to take a fresh look at the company's decidedly overseas orientation. Does Echelon know something about the U.S. smart grid market that other vendors are missing? Click inside to find out what Jesse learned in his one-on-one with Echelon CEO Ron Sege.
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Echelon and China-based Holley Metering Ltd. have signed a deal to collaborate on providing advanced smart metering products for China's booming smart grid market. Click to read the story and why SGN's Jesse Berst suggests it may be time for U.S. utilities to give Echelon a closer look.
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Earlier this week, Echelon scored a big win in Norway with a 100,000 smart meter deployment. A new report from Frost & Sullivan suggests there're more to come as the smart metering market in much of Europe is on a fast track. Click inside for a look at the hot spots.
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