In Europe, Spain’s largest utility Iberdrola claims that it has improved its service quality for customers in the Castilla-La Mancha area by 18% due to investment in smart grid technology. The utility, one of the largest in Europe, told local Spanish media that it has reduced power outages from 45 minutes between January to July...
July 17th, 2015 SAGEMCOM AND ITS LOCAL PARTNER ENERMETER HAVE WON 240 000 AMM PRIME PLC METER FOR ENERGIAS DE PORTUGAL (EDP). Through InovGrid project, EDP is now ramping up in the roll out of PRIME Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in Portugal. EDP strongly believes that InovGrid will bring significant benefits to customers, with increased control...
Atende Software and ANDRA have been selected in the tender for providing 6 600 DCUs with balancing meter functionality for Energa-Operator, one of the largest DSOs in Poland. The device (codename Comander) was designed and developed from scratch on the basis of Phoenix-RTOS operating system and Phoenix-PRIME – the first pure software implementation of PRIME...
3rd July 2015, Brussels: PRIME Alliance is to hold its next Utility User Group conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by EDP Distribuição, a Principal member of the PRIME Alliance. Featuring in-depth presentations addressing commercial deployment facts, challenges and solutions by leading utilities that are PRIME Alliance members, this conference is open for any utilities, members...
After four years in Amsterdam, European Utility Week was on the move taking the show to Austria’s capital and leading smart city, Vienna Taking place from 3rd to 5th November 2015, this year’s event was titled “Connecting the Smart Community” and had 400+ speakers across two 9-track programmes that ran simultaneously over 3 days. www.european-utility-week.com EUW – Announcement of...
CG to provide smart grid solutions in Portugal CG selected as main supplier of data concentrators (Distribution Transformer Controllers) PRIME standard based smart grid deployment ZIV smart grid solutions market leader Mumbai, May 26, 2015: Avantha Group Company CG has won an important contract to supply ZIV Data Concentrator Units (DTC – Distribution Transformer Controllers*) to Energias de...
9th Workshop on Power Line Communications: Power Line Communications Enabling the Smart Grid 21-22 September 2015 – Klagenfurt – Austria Registration will be open from July. The 9th Workshop on Power Line Communications (WSPLC 15) will be held at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt on 21-22 September 2015. The workshop covers relevant topics in PLC with...
Phoenix Systems developed PRIME network diagnostic tools based on Phoenix-PRIME PLC Doctor project goal was to develop hardware and software tools to diagnose PRIME network performance. It will enable to detect various PLC communication problems occurring in the large scale power grids. Phoenix-PRIME, a certified PRIME implementation, developed by Polish technology company Phoenix Systems, was...
UTC America Latina 25th – 27th March 2015 Location: Florianopolis, SC, Brazil For more information: http://www.utcamericalatina.org/summit2015/_novaversao/index.html The modernization of telecom networks combined with the aging utility infrastructure and the need to implement smart grid means a considerable investment effort for utilities companies especially in the current scenario of the electricity sector....
9th February 2015, Brussels: The PRIME Alliance held its first Utility to Utility User Group Conference hosted by Iberdrola and GNF in Madrid between the 21st and 22nd of January 2015. With a strong participation of attendees, Iberdrola, GNF, EDP and Energa-Operator exchanged in a very open and trusted manner their experiences in rolling out...
