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Did You Hear?
Pertinent Market News Over the Last Month
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ESCO Technologies Inc. announced that the City of New York's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has selected and formally contracted with ESCO's Aclara RF Systems Inc. to provide its Citywide AMI solution for the city's entire water service territory. This contract will allow the City of New York to automate its meter reading capabilities and to improve customer service for its approximately 875,000 metered endpoints serving nearly eight million customers, representing the largest municipal water utility in North America. The total value of purchase orders anticipated to be issued under this contract is approximately $68.3 million and the system is expected to be deployed over a three-year period with the initial orders expected later this month.
Duke Energy Corp. and General Motors Corp. are teaming up to smooth the way for a future of electric vehicles. General Motors Corp. said the partnership, which also includes the Electric Vehicle Research Institute and other large utilities such as Southern California Edison, will deal with myriad complicated issues from tax incentives to where and when the cars can be recharged. GM is working to bring the Chevrolet Volt rechargeable car to showrooms in late 2010. The Volt is being designed to run on an electric motor powered by lithium-ion batteries. When fully charged, the car will be able to travel 40 miles on battery power. Duke has been working on its Utility of the Future project for several years with future widespread production of electric cars in mind.
Echelon Corporation announced that the Danish utility SEAS-NVE has awarded an AMI project to Echelon Networked Energy Services value-added reseller partner Eltel Networks A/S, with meter data management system and enterprise software tools from NES VAR partner Goerlitz AG. Under the project, which is targeted to begin in Q408 and complete by the end of 2011, Eltel will deploy NES advanced metering infrastructure to approximately 390,000 SEAS-NVE customers. Revenue to Echelon over the life of the project is expected to be approximately $40 million.
KEMA has promoted Rob Wilhite to senior vice president of KEMA’s global intelligent networks and communications practice. This promotion supports KEMA’s continued growth of its global smart grids practice and focus on grid modernization and utility of the future initiatives. Wilhite joined KEMA in 2004, building a successful practice in AMI. In 2007, Wilhite helped expand the global intelligent networks and communications practice, leading an integrated team of business strategists and deep technical experts from an array of direct utility and equipment supplier backgrounds. As senior VP, Wilhite will continue to coordinate KEMA’s experts in developing and delivering comprehensive solutions to help clients achieve smart grids and AMI deployments worldwide.
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Download the July 2008 Issue
Use the link below to download the PDF of the full issue of the July 2008 Automation Insight for the complete print versions of the articles.
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[download] Automation Insight - July 2008 (.pdf 86 kb)
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