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By Liz Enbysk

SGN Managing Editor

 

The Wabash Valley Power Association is the first utility to go live with the Siemens Demand Response Management System (DRMS). Across the ocean, Ringeriks-Kraft says it will be the first distribution company in Norway to implement a smart metering system. Scroll down for details on those developments, and a few other "first" claims we came across recently.

 

WVPA first to implement Siemens' DRMS solution

The Siemens' DRMS gives the Wabash Valley Power Association – which is a generation and transmission cooperative serving Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio --  the ability to shed load across multiple distribution systems utilizing several different DR programs. Siemens says the system allows WVPA to verify load shed, calculate baselines, and automate customer billing and settlement without cumbersome processes that previously required multiple spreadsheets for calculation. The DRMS integrates with eMeter's EnergyIP meter data management system platform that Siemens implemented for the cooperative last year, allowing for all data to be passed to and from both systems. Read more >>

First smart meter implementation in Norway will use Kamstrup meters

Ringeriks-Kraft says it will be the first distribution company in Norway to implement a smart metering system since the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) issued the directive about countrywide implementation of smart meters before Jan. 1, 2017. Ringeriks-Kraft's meter installation will take place in 2012-2013. (Last summer Fortum Norway chose Telvent to deploy Echelon's smart metering system to its 100,000 electricity customers, but those deployments are slated for 2013-15.) Ringeriks-Kraft chose the wireless smart metering system from Kamstrup for the 22,000 metering points. Read more >>

 

Tantalus completes first DCVR application in U.S.

Tantalus, a smart grid communications company, announced the successful implementation of its first dispatchable conservation voltage regulation (DCVR) program with Morristown Utility Systems, a Tennessee Valley Authority utility. According to Tantalus, implementing its TUNet DCVR program allows Morristown Utility Systems to curtail load at TVA’s request, manage its own peak demand, automate existing demand management techniques, and use data to identify weaknesses and inefficiencies in the power grid, among other benefits. Read more >>

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