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By Liz Enbysk

SGN Managing Editor

We’ve had double dippers appear in our weekly lists of smart grid wins. But this week's quadruple winner is a first. Scroll down to see which company announced four deals this week, and be sure to click to page 2 to see which company reeled in a $100 million contract to turn municipal solid waste into electricity.

PROJECT WINS

·         Milsoft Utility Solutions wins the top spot this week with its four wins. The Abilene, Texas company's outage management system was selected by Bryan Texas Utilities and the City of Independence - Power & Light Department in Missouri and the REA Energy Cooperative in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the Beauregard Electric Cooperative in Louisiana has chosen Milsoft Interactive Voice Response Communications, which Milsoft says is used by nearly 250 electric utilities for customer communications and service as well as employee communications and scheduling. Get details >>

·         Tendril is partnering with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and the Arizona Governor's Office of Energy Policy on a new program to offer advanced energy management to homes with first-generation, one-way AMR meters. Funded through a DOE award, the program leverages the Tendril Connect cloud platform for communications between TEP and participating customers. Energy consumption data transmitted from customer meters will be analyzed by Tendril Connect and results will be shared with TEP customers via Tendril's web and mobile dashboards showing how and where energy is being used and providing personalized energy efficiency suggestions. “Behavioral energy efficiency is a significant and largely untapped resource that can help our customers to use less energy and save on their monthly electric bills,” said Eric Shoberg of TEP. Get details >>

·         Nighthawk, an Irving, Texas-based wireless smart grid solutions provider, received an order from The Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) in Saipan, to deliver electric meters with Nighthawk communications technology. CUC is looking to the metering solution to improve collections and reduce costs of providing services to remotely located customers. The Nighthawk meters will also enable CUC to employ a pre-pay metering solution to improve collections and cash flow. Get details >>

·         On-Ramp Wireless, on the heels of its selection by GE to support its Grid IQ advanced metering infrastructure Point-to-Multipoint solution, announced that San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) selected its Total Reach Network solution to help build a self-healing smart grid. Technologies SDG&E will be deploying include wireless sensors that automatically detect outages and other problems on the electric grid, and devices that smoothly integrate environmentally beneficial renewable energy. Having already installed 2,800 fault circuit indicators, On-Ramp will extend its coverage to SDG&E’s underground circuits in the San Diego region to 10,000 fault detectors by 2017. Get details >>