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Echelon deploys microgrids in India, South Africa
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Em News Bureau
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Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:27 Hrs [IST] |
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Echelon Corporation has
announced two microgrid
deployments in India and
South Africa. These installations
integrate distributed generation to
compensate for disruptions in power
supplied by utilities. The
deployments are built on Echelon's
open-standard, multi-application
energy control networking platform
powered by its Control Operating
System (COS) and incorporate
application software and services
from its local partners Grene Robotics
and Power Meter Technics (PMT).
The first-of-its-kind in the two
countries, the micro grid
deployments involve dynamically
managing demand and energy supply
mix for a residential community and
a retail mall to deliver reliable service
cost-effectively, a release from
Echelon noted.
The Indian deployment is at Palm
Meadows in Hyderabad. The site is
an 86-acre integrated gated
community with 335 homes and
residential services.
The Palm Meadows community
ties into the grid at a dedicated
substation and sources energy in bulk
from the utility. The community also
runs diesel generators and will
incorporate solar generation in the
future. Residences within the
community are equipped with
Echelon smart meters that connect
into data concentrators at
distribution transformers and feed
near real-time usage information to
the Networked Energy Systems
(NES) system software. Echelon
partner Grene Robotics' Skynet
management application
automatically turns on local
generation if utility-delivered power
is inadequate. The Skynet software
interfaces with the NES system
software and creates a bill for the
customer reflecting the customers'
actual use of lower cost grid power
and more expensive local power.
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