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Danish Utility NRGi Taps Echelon's NES Solutions for Metering Project
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Echelon Corp. announced that the Danish utility NRGi has chosen
Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) Systems for its advanced
metering infrastructure project.
NRGi awarded the project to Echelon's NES value-added reseller partner,
Eltel Networks A/S, with meter data management system (MDMS) and
enterprise software tools from NES VAR partner Gorlitz AG.
Under the project, which is targeted to begin in the fourth quarter of
2008 and be complete by the end of 2011, Eltel will deploy NES advanced
metering infrastructure, initially to approximately 50,000 of NRGi's
200,000 customers. Revenue to Echelon over the life of the project is
expected to be between approximately $5 and $20 million.
NRGi is the fourth Danish utility to select Echelon's NES system,
bringing the total number of Echelon NES meters in Denmark to 810,000,
including all options. Denmark is one of the fastest growing markets in
Europe for smart metering systems.
"Over the course of the last six months Echelon has been awarded every
major project in Denmark, establishing the NES system as the market
leader in advanced metering infrastructure in Denmark," said Mark
Ossel, Echelon's vice president, NES business development, North-West
Europe. "While every market has its own unique attributes, most
economies worldwide are facing similar challenges of rising costs,
disparities between supply and demand, and the need to better modernize
the energy infrastructure - all factors driving utilities to deploy a
'smart grid'. Utilities have begun to look beyond meters as simple cash
registers, to making them intelligent nodes in their smart grid
network. As a result, there is a growing opportunity for utilities to
demonstrate to their customers and the regulators the value and power
that the NES system can bring."
"A strategic goal for NRGi is to deliver products and services to our
customers that contribute to energy savings and CO2 reductions," said
Poul Berthelsen, Project Manager at NRGi. "While metering alone does
neither of these, the NES system can enable us to do both. With NES, we
have the ability to download new tariff plans into our meters over the
network enabling us to offer incentives to reward our customers for
shifting demand to off peak times. Similarly, the ability to deliver
energy information and energy services into our customers' homes
through the NES communications infrastructure is a powerful tool for
energy management and conservation. We selected the NES system because
it is truly a network. Unlike other systems, it is not focused simply
on the meter, but on providing the foundation of a smart grid. This
solid platform gives us the ability to solve problems we know we have
today, and an expandable platform and grid management tools to extend
our services in the future."
Echelon's NES advanced metering infrastructure consists of a family of
highly integrated, advanced electronic electricity meters, accessed via
a web services based network operating system over an IP networking
infrastructure.
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((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
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Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News
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