KEMA picks Green Energy software platform for Smart Grid Interop Lab

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Quick Take: This is one of several "platforms" that are starting to appear. This one is not from one of the majors, but from a small startup which has done some innovative partnering to gather momentum. - By Jesse Berst

Testing, certification and consulting firm KEMA will bring Green Energy's GreenBus® software platform to its Smart Grid Interop Lab. A KEMA official said the Green Energy platform was selected because it allows applications to interoperate and access grid operations data in real time.

KEMA established the Interoperability Lab to give the utility industry a platform for managing risk exposure, verifying business case projections and ensuring a more efficient and effective smart grid deployment. The advanced testing lab provides independent verification of device interoperability, and also validates compliance of low-voltage automation equipment, meters and consumer products with smart grid standards.

Green Energy's Roxy Podlogar, VP for product strategy, said "Using GreenBus at KEMA's Smart Grid Interoperability Lab will not only enable interoperability between applications, but also will provide a platform for innovation, through advanced technologies and design, open source-derived components and vendor agnostic functionality."

GreenBus will be set up and used to integrate applications that determine interoperability, scalability and reliability in utility or microgrid deployments. It also will be used to illustrate operational effectiveness through its advanced data acquisition and control platform.

KEMA VP Ron Chebra said the GreenBus platforms features are ideally suited for use in the Interop Lab. He commented "Utilities invest in costly and time-consuming trials to prove interoperability. The KEMA Smart Grid Interop Lab can emulate the utility's proposed production environment at a fraction of the time and cost of a typical interoperability pilot."

Jesse Berst is the founder and chief analyst of Smart Grid News.com. He consults to smart grid companies seeking market entry advice and M&A advisory. A frequent keynoter at industry events in the US and abroad, he also serves on the Advisory Council of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy & Environment directorate.

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