By Liz Enbysk

SGN Managing Editor

We added some of the smart grid wins announced at DistribuTECH to an already jam-packed list of new contract awards and an impressive set of recently announced industry honors. And what have we got? A wins sheet to beat all others with AMSC, GE, Itron, Schneider Electric, SAIC and plenty of others to tell you about. Scroll down and then jump to page 2 for a look-see.

PROJECT WINS

·         Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was recently awarded a contract by the City of Kings Mountain, N.C. to deliver smart grid infrastructure solutions for electric, water, and gas. SAIC and Kings Mountain will implement SAIC’s Smart Grid as a Service on the 1,200 meter smart grid pilot project. “We are the first municipal utility in the Carolinas to utilize smart meter technology on gas, electric and water meters,” noted Kings Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey. “Smart meter technology will help us continue to maintain some of the lowest utility rates in the Carolinas.” Learn more >>

·         Alcatel-Lucent will make the communications network of Luxembourg power utility company Creos smarter, using its Internet routing technology to lower costs and enhance the reliability and efficiency of power transmission. The new Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching technology Alcatel-Lucent is deploying will allow Creos to consolidate vital services, such as teleprotection, current differential protection, closed circuit TV and SCADA systems - supporting remote monitoring, fault isolation and system safety and reliability - onto a single network. Learn more >>

·         EnerNOC was tapped by Australian electricity retailer ERM Power to provide branded, integrated demand-side management applications. ERM will power new customer offerings on a “white-labeled” EnerNOC platform and expects to reach 200 MW of demand response by 2014. EnerNOC says ERM Power is the first electricity retailer in Australia to adopt its demand-side management software. Learn more >>

·         Freewave Technology's wireless data solutions were selected by Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) for a fault circuit indicator (FCI) project. The idea is that installing FCI's throughout the island of Oahu will enable HECO to more effectively mitigate power outages or issues along the power line by detecting fault data and transmitting it in real-time with FreeWave's wireless data radios – and ultimately restore power to residents quickly. Learn more >>

·         AMSC announced an order from Nexans for high temperature superconductor wire to be used in a superconductor fault current limiter (SFCL). The SFCL will act as a surge protector at “AmpaCity,” a project by Nexans, RWE Group, one of Europe’s leading electricity and gas companies, and the German research institute KIT. AmpaCity aims to replace inner-city high-voltage equipment with superconductor systems. Learn more (pdf) >>

·         PowerSecure International announced it has received $10 million of new business for distributed generation systems. The awards are turn-key revenue projects, including more than $5 million for a 7.5MW Interactive Distributed Generation system for a major northeastern hospital. A variety of retail, municipal, industrial and military projects comprise the remainder of the new awards. Learn more >>

·         Itron will provide its AMR solution for mobile collection of meter data to the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, which serves 786,000 natural gas customers and 457,000 electric customers in northern Indiana. The contract includes a minimum of 400,000 Itron gas communication modules and 450,000 Itron electric meters, including Itron’s new Bridge Meter we told you about recently, which the company says offers increased operational efficiencies and future investment protection. Learn more >>