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Echelon Gets Smart Metering Project in France
Echelon Corp. announced that the Group of Electricity Distributors in
France (GAELD), a consortium of electricity distributors, has chosen
Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) System for up to 90,000 homes.
The project, awarded to Echelon partner Alter Way, is expected to begin
within the next few months and to be completed by 2013.
One of the utilities in the GAELD consortium, Regie d'electricite de
Loos, is allowing homeowners to sell back solar produced electricity to
the utility. They are doing so using the NES meters to measure the
amount of electricity produced separately from the energy consumed, as
opposed to "net metering" in which the details of production versus
consumption are lost, making this the first instance of Echelon's meter
to be used in an alternative energy application in France.
"We chose Echelon's NES system because we believe it is the most
advanced, flexible, and cost-effective metering infrastructure solution
available. The NES system provides a solid, reliable backbone for our
smart metering system, and integrates easily with software and
solutions from other providers, ensuring us that we're installing a
truly future-proof solution," said Michel Fruchart, managing director,
GAELD. "While the French market has many requirements, because of its
flexible design the NES system can be adapted to our market without a
costly and time consuming effort, giving us a solution that is
available and deployable today and that we expect will meet our needs
for years into the future. We believe that it will allow us to extend
our system based on future needs and offerings we might want to provide
to our customers at a later date, such as prepayment, remote reading of
both gas and water meters, and in-home services."
Echelon's NES metering infrastructure consists of a family of
integrated, electronic electricity meters, accessed via a web services
based network operating system over an IP networking infrastructure.
Unlike systems with a dedicated radio per metering point, multiple NES
meters can share a single IP connection through the use of Echelon's
standards-based power line networking technology.
The NES system's web services based network operating system provides a
standards-based platform for enterprise applications that enables
integration. Open interfaces within NES meters enable a market for
third-party add-ons that can expand functionality of the meters, the
company noted in a release.
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((Distributed via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com))
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