The Echelon smart grid vision goes beyond the smart meters the San Jose, CA-based company may be best known for. Rather, the Echelon smart grid ecosystem extends from the power plant to the plug, as the company puts it. As a result, Echelon smart grid solutions include a range of products that electric utilities around the world use to monitor and manage infrastructure, plus an array of devices and control systems that permit commercial and residential customers to optimize energy usage.
A key piece of the Echelon smart grid strategy is its Control Operating System (COS) open software platform that runs on its Edge Control Node (ECN). The Echelon smart grid system has been Verizon 3G certified, giving device makers and utilities an additional communications option in addition to Echelon's own powerline communications.
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Echelon has introduced new technology capable of providing utilities with both automated metering and low-voltage grid optimization - and it's a hit in Asia where several meter makers intend to take advantage of its capabilities in their home markets and elsewhere.
The Wabash Valley Power Association is the first utility to go live with the Siemens Demand Response Management System. And across the ocean, Ringeriks-Kraft says it will be the first distribution company in Norway to implement a smart metering system. Those are just two of six smart grid first claims we thought you'd be interested in.
Brazil will be the next major market for smart meter sales, and Echelon has its foot in the door early thanks to its somewhat different approach. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has a few comments inside.
Platforms are a good thing for utilities, and slowly but surely more choices are emerging. Just this week Echelon announced its first platform partnership and On-Ramp Wireless said it's now providing a platform for utility automation. Click for more on these developments and why platforms are so important for grid applications.
Echelon's just-announced cloud-based smart metering solution for a small Danish cooperative spurred our resident smart grid insider Jesse Berst to take a fresh look at the company's decidedly overseas orientation. Does Echelon know something about the U.S. smart grid market that other vendors are missing? Click inside to find out what Jesse learned in his one-on-one with Echelon CEO Ron Sege.
Echelon and China-based Holley Metering Ltd. have signed a deal to collaborate on providing advanced smart metering products for China's booming smart grid market. Click to read the story and why SGN's Jesse Berst suggests it may be time for U.S. utilities to give Echelon a closer look.
Earlier this week, Echelon scored a big win in Norway with a 100,000 smart meter deployment. A new report from Frost & Sullivan suggests there're more to come as the smart metering market in much of Europe is on a fast track. Click inside for a look at the hot spots.
Echelon's Edge Control Node has been certified as compatible with Verizon's 3G network, which means utilities can use the wireless company's network as the backhaul for smart grid systems rather than invest in their own.
Echelon's NES Energy Control System will be one of five solutions in a 50,000 home smart metering pilot project in Russia. The project, which is being closely followed by the Russian government, is expected to save customers up to 20% on their energy bills while lowering utility operating costs and improving grid efficiency.
In today's Discovery Showcase installment, Jesse Berst introduces you to three companies that illustrate a powerful business opportunity for vendors – and a future area of emphasis for utilities. He calls it the coming sensors-and-devices gold rush. Find out why.
Echelon said a smart grid project in Denmark is getting "nearly flawless" meter reading performance using its NES System, and that the customer complaint rate is 10 times less than the 5% rate originally targeted.
If SmartSynch succeeds in its ambitious new collaboration with telecom giant Qualcomm, it will create an apps store for utilities – a place where they can shop for smart grid applications or sell ones they've built themselves. Jesse Berst says the move points our industry in the right direction. Find out why inside.
Smart grid provider SmartSynch, in conjunction with prepaid electric provider PayGo, will give utilities the ability to offer their customers another choice in how they pay their bills: a prepayment option. While electric prepay adoption rates are incredibly low in the U.S., SmartSynch says as many as 40% of the country's electric utilities are considering it.
When we asked SGN readers to nominate smart grid companies that should be on our radar in 2011, we received some fascinating responses. In today's post we highlight our fifth installment of your 11 in 2011 nominations, along with observations on each of them from Jesse Berst.
Energy efficiency in commercial and industrial buildings has finally stepped into the spotlight as owners and service and product suppliers realize there's a lot of energy (and money) to be saved and, in many cases, a new source of revenue to boot.
The Energy Services Network Association, a nonprofit composed of utilities, manufacturers and vendors, is backing the Open Smart Grid Protocol and intends to publish it as an open standard. The standard, pioneered by Echelon, would mean utilities can use interoperable meters and other smart grid gear from different vendors on the same network.
Echelon Corporation today announced the availability of the NES ControlPoint, an embedded module that allows manufacturers to build intelligent smart grid devices based on the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) standard used by Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) System, a market leading smart grid infrastructure.
Echelon announced the release of its new open software platform for intelligent distributed control of the smart grid and a new series of open and extensible hardware solutions.
This overview outlines challenges utilities face given increases in reactive loads and the opportunities for cost savings in Volt/VAR control, highlighting Echelon's own approach that enables utilities to extend volt/VAR control to the edge of the grid.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) has selected California-based Echelon Corporation and Massachusetts-based Ambient Corporation to further develop its grid-based communications architecture that connects various digital devices such as smart meters, power line sensors and automated power switching equipment.
Echelon Corporation announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Ron Sege as President and Chief Executive Officer and to the company’s Board of Directors, completing a search process begun last November. Mr. Sege, 53, most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer, and Board member, of 3Com Corporation from 2008 through its acquisition by HP.
Echelon Corporation and Convergys Corporation, a global leader in relationship management, today announced a collaboration to develop integrated smart grid solutions based on Convergys’ highly scalable Smart CIS Solution and Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) System, a leading advanced metering infrastructure solution. The software will be used to support next generation utility billing and customer energy management applications.
Over the next decade utilities will need powerful new capabilities to scale up all sorts of offerings for all sorts of customers in all sorts of service territories using all sorts of rate plans. Some refer to this array of services as “energy happy hours” – and today Jesse Berst introduces two forward-looking companies with plans to host them.
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) today announced Networked Energy Services (NES) system-wide enhancements including a new generation of CT (current transformer) meter, enterprise smart metering network operating system software, downloadable smart meter enhancements, and updated system tools. Nearly two million homes are connected to the smart grid using Echelon’s NES system, one of the most widely-deployed, next-generation smart grid platforms used by utilities.
In this thoughtful commentary by Echelon CTO Bob Dolin we start at the world’s first Smart Grid project in Italy - and then follow a path that takes us past two-way communications and remote meter reading towards Smart Grid 2.0 and the benefits of intelligent energy management. How do we get there? What are the requirements? Dolin offers his point of view inside.
It has taken a while, but more and more observers are calling the Texas "experiment" with retail competition a success... and even suggesting it may be a model for the rest of the country. Is it?
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