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Tendril Announces First Shipments of Tendril Energize Consumer Engagement TechnologyBOULDER, Colo. --(Business Wire)-- Tendril, the energy platform company, today announced it has shipped Tendril Energize™, its revolutionary application suite of consumer-facing home energy management tools, to several energy providers including Cape Light Compact, KCP&L and Origin Energy. The Tendril Energize applications are built on Tendril Connect™, the company's cloud-based software platform for utilities, energy service providers, and third party product and service providers. Based on field research grounded in behavioral science and cognitive psychology, Tendril Energize provides a web portal as well as mobile and other applications to create an active learning experience where consumers can gain insight into their energy use and learn how to control consumption based on their unique goals. The result is persistent and active consumer participation in managing their home energy use with meaningful results. By engaging consumers, Tendril Energize enables energy service providers to accelerate consumer participation along an energy value chain that encompasses energy efficiency, demand response, direct load control and orchestrated home energy management systems (e.g., distributed generation, solar, electric vehicles), allowing them to meet their business objectives and regulatory requirements. KCP&L is using Tendril Energize as part of the SmartGrid Demonstration Project, a complete, two-way utility infrastructure upgrade to 14,000 homes and businesses in a number of Kansas City's Midtown and urban core neighborhoods. "One of the goals of KCP&L SmartGrid is to give customers increased information about how and when they use energy, empowering them to make decisions that save energy and money," said Mike Deggendorf, KCP&L senior vice president, delivery. "Tendril Energize is one of the tools helping us to achieve this goal and better understand the way our customers use energy." Tendril Energize features include:
Tendril Energize is powered by Tendril Connect, an open standards-based, scalable and secure software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) platform that enables energy providers and third-party energy ecosystem partners to deliver applications that empower consumers to actively participate in home energy management programs, such as energy efficiency, demand response, direct load control, electric vehicle and appliance management, and eventually, distributed generation. Tendril Energize was first unveiled in February 2011 at DistribuTECH, the nation's leading tradeshow focused on utility energy distribution and efficiency. For more information about Tendril Energize, please visit http://www.tendrilinc.com/product/energize/. Note to editors: Members of the press interested in an online demo of Tendril Energize, please contact [email protected]. High-resolution photos of Tendril Energize and the mobile apps for iPhone (News - Alert) and Android devices are available for download at http://www.tendrilinc.com/news/media-resources/media-kit/tendril-energize-screen-shots/. About Tendril Tendril is the Energy Platform company, delivering end-to-end consumer engagement products, applications and services powered by Tendril Connect™-an open standards-based, secure and scalable platform that takes the complexity out of the Energy Internet and creates a dialogue between energy service providers and their customers. Delivering consumer engagement software, in-home products and applications as well as easy to integrate utility solutions such as Demand Response and Energy Efficiency, Tendril offers unparalleled insight into energy decisions, making the Energy Marketplace a reality. The company is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Siemens (News - Alert) Venture Capital Good Energies, RRE Ventures and GE. For more information, visit www.tendrilinc.com.
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