East Hanover, N.J.-based Comverge Inc., a provider of smart grid, demand management and energy efficiency solutions, has entered into a five-year agreement with Pepco Holdings Inc. (PHI) to provide full turnkey services, including a demand response hardware and software system, as well as installation and marketing services compatible with PHI's future advance metering infrastructure (AMI).
It is anticipated that the demand response system will be capable of providing PHI with over 200 MW of peak load reduction in the suburban Maryland service areas. The agreement is subject to oversight by the Maryland Public Service Commission.
‘As utilities continue to roll out smart devices for their developing smart grid networks, energy conservation and demand management are major components in a national drive toward energy independence,’ says Robert M. Chiste, chairman, president and CEO of Comverge. ‘It is exciting to be a partner with PHI in delivering this important clean energy program, which includes our nation's capital.’
The program will be the largest deployment utilizing Comverge's new AMI-ready, dual-mode digital control unit, which incorporates both a VHF channel and a ZigBee communications channel. This technology includes Comverge's AMI-ready, VHF-to-ZigBee bridge, which can receive VHF messages and relay them via ZigBee to a ZigBee SuperStat.
SOURCE: Comverge Inc.
