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By Liz Enbysk

SGN Managing Editor

 

Who's inking smart grid contracts? Who's winning VC money? Who's getting shout-outs for milestones and innovations?  This week's list of smart grid winners has all that and more. Scroll down and onto page 2 to see for yourself.

 

PROJECT WINS

 

·         NEC Corporation has been selected by Enel, Italy's largest distribution system operator, to supply what NEC says will be one of the largest energy storage systems (ESS) based on lithium-ion-manganese technology in Europe. Enel will install NEC’s ESS at its Chiaravalle power substation site in the Calabria Region and plans to run a pilot to optimize the flow of renewable energy to the Italian transmission grid while reducing the imbalance between forecast power and actual production and minimizing energy loss due to grid congestion. The NEC storage system will enable ENEL to smoothly control the exchange of energy via the power grid. Read more >>

 

·         Telvent's Conductor Meter Data Management (MDM) solution has been selected by Entegrus Powerlines. The Ontario electric company will be the

first to implement the Conductor MDM solution, which will combine data storage, management and analysis to complement its advanced metering infrastructure. "This project is strategic to our on-going smart grid initiatives to provide more intelligent service to our customers," said Entegrus President Dan Charron. Read more >>

 

·         Navasota Valley Electric Cooperative (NVEC) will install the Sensus FlexNet utility communications network in an effort to increase reliability and provide usage information for its 13,000-member service territory in central Texas. NVEC will launch a three-month pilot program with residential iCon A electric meters and two base stations and eventually replace all of its more than 18,000 meters with Sensus technology. Read more >>

 

·         PowerSecure announced $20 million of new awards for distributed generation (DG) systems and utility infrastructure projects. The $11 million in DG awards include installations for industrial, military, hospital, data center, and commercial facilities. The utility infrastructure awards total $9 million, and include T&D projects to upgrade utility systems and substation projects. Read more >>

 

·         23 rural electric utilities around the country will share $134 million in USDA loan guarantees for smart grid technologies. Recipients are: South Alabama

Electric Coop, Arkansas Electric Coop, Kirkwood Meadows (California) PUD, Eagle Valley (Colorado) Clean Energy, Green Energy Team (Hawaii), Southern Iowa Electric Coop, SMECO Solar (Maryland), Federated Rural Electric (Minnesota and Iowa), South Mississippi Electric Power, KAMO Electric Coop (Missouri and Oklahoma), KBR Rural Public Power District (Nebraska), Otero County Electric Coop and Central Valley Electric Coop in New Mexico, Delaware County (New York) Electric Coop, Minnkota Power Coop (North Dakota and Minnesota), Mountrail-Williams Electric Coop (North Dakota and Montana), Firelands Electric Coop and Midwest Electric Coop in Ohio, San Patrico (Texas) Electric Coop, East Texas Electric Coop, Orcas (Washington) Power and Light and Wyrulec Company (Wyoming and Nebraska). Read more >>

 

·         Harris Utilities’ customer engagement solution CustomerConnect has been selected by Canada's Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc. (NPEI). to provide a one-stop shop  to help consumers understand their energy consumption patterns, recognize the impact of changes they make, and show them how their usage compares to others in their community. “We want customers to get involved. We want them to be educated about energy use and savings. We want them to understand what they’re using, think about how they can change consumption to decrease their bill,” says Margaret Battista, vice-president of customer service and information technology at NPEI. Read more >>

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