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By Liz Enbysk

SGN Managing Editor

 

If variety is the spice of life, this week's list of smart grid wins is zesty as they come. We go from rural Sweden to the Congo, from Thailand to Tennessee. We’ve got payment apps integrating with smart meters and software helping optimize Army microgrid command centers. And be sure to click to page two to find out which utility ranked highest in the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers ranking.

 

PROJECT WINS

 

·         Swedish demo focuses on rural grids – The point of the smart grid demonstration in Gotland, Sweden is to show how smart grid technologies can improve the electrical quality of large rural grids by utilizing large quantities of

distributed power generation and advanced load management strategies. Telvent has been selected to participate. Its smart meter technology will be used to increase the involvement of the end-customer in the management of their electricity use. The Smart Grid Gotland project is scheduled to run until 2015. It is a collaboration between a number of entities, including Telvent, Vattenfall, Gotland Energy, ABB, the Swedish National Grid and the Royal Institute of Technology. Read more >>

 

·         PayGo apps go to Latin America – Utility customers in 16 Latin American countries will have new ways to manage when, where, and how they pay for energy via a new partnership between ELO Sistemas Electronicas, the leading electronic metering provider in Brazil, and PayGo.  The two companies are integrating ELO smart meters with PayGo applications and technology. "Latin American utilities are about to begin the wholesale adoption of smart meter technologies with the installation of a large number of smart meters in Brazil," said Marcos Rizzo, ELO vice president of business development. "ELO will be the first supplier in the region to incorporate PayGo’s ‘real-time’ technology in the meter which validates our vision to be an energy industry platform for the next generation smart grid." Read more >>

 

·         Army smart grid lab gets smarter – The U.S. Army's new energy and environment systems lab in Huntsville, Alabama will use Power Analytics'

Paladin DesignBase software to "to design and optimize smart microgrid/command centers for energy surety and reliability and, most importantly, save warfighters’ lives by reducing the fuel consumption of diesel generators used to provide energy on the battlefield." Read more >>

·         Conergy will develop two big solar parks in Thailand – The parks, which will cover almost 500,000 square meters and supply solar energy to 14,000 households in Thailand, will involve 86,000 Conergy modules on around 86 kilometers of Conergy SolarLinea mounting systems to produce more than 29,500 megawatt hours of clean electricity after completion in February 2013. Conergy will work with local partners on its contract with Thai Solar Energy Company. Read more >>

 

·         Camden, Tennessee gets its grid on –The next TVA utility to modernize its grid is the Benton County Electric System (BCES), which selected Elster's EnergyAxis solution for its AMI deployment. BCES will integrate Elster's system to enable network management, control and operation. Deploying EnergyAxis also means BCES will be able to collect and analyze the data it needs to improve customer service and realize operational efficiencies. The project is on a three-month deployment schedule with completion planned mid 2013. Read more >>

 

·         E-Box solar sets head to the Congo -- Electric supercar and energy storage device maker Leo Motors and industrial design company PDI C&D/RDC SPRL

signed a contract to supply an independent solar power system grafted with Leo Motors' E-Box power storage device for a housing project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The E-Box system will be combined with a solar panel to provide an environmentally friendly solution to power outages for affordable housing in that part of the world. Read more >>

 

·         Boosting grid stability in Scotland – SSC, one of the UK's leading energy companies, will use AMSC's D-VAR reactive compensation and voltage control systems to enhance the electricity grid in the Western Isles of Scotland near two future wind farms. It marks AMSC's ninth D-VAR system sale to SSE. "Our D-VAR STATCOM solution is increasingly being relied upon by electric utilities to automatically and instantly inject precise amounts of reactive power into the grid to stabilize voltage and relieve network congestion," said AMSC President and CEO Daniel P. McGahn. Read more >>

 

·         Getting rugged about cybersecurity – To protect its industrial automation systems, Schneider Electric has chosen Belden's security technology. The company says its new ConneXium Tofino Security Solution is a suite of products that hardens industrial systems against network incidents and cyberattacks, improving operational security, reliability and performance. Dave Doggett, program director for Industry Cyber Security at Schneider Electric, said the solution "provides a key element in mitigating risks by managing the traffic to and from Schneider Electric automation devices before patches are applied or new more secure products deployed." Read more >>

 

·         Tracking solar in California's Imperial Valley -- Albuquerque, NM-based

Array Technologies will supply its utility-scale DuraTrack solar trackers for one of the world's largest photovoltaic plants. The Imperial Valley plant will have an installed capacity of 268 MW DC and will be interconnected to the San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) grid. Read more >>

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