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Smart Grid Solutions Platform
Through GridPoint’s alliance with Hometown Connections, APPA utility members may purchase the ground-breaking GridPoint software platform with favorable commercial terms and deliver innovative energy savings programs to public power customers.
Intelligent Network of Distributed Resources
GridPoint Platform 3.0 allows utilities to progressively integrate and customize smart grid solutions, including online energy management, load measurement & management, solar & wind management, energy storage management and electric vehicle management. GridPoint’s solutions enable public power systems to meet immediate program needs such as demand response and energy efficiency, which will enable utility customers to reduce energy consumption and costs through an online energy management portal. As new technologies come to market, GridPoint’s software provides a roadmap to a comprehensive smart grid deployment, reducing the risk and time required to integrate new technologies.
The platform delivers smart grid solutions through the integration of distributed energy resources, including plug-in electric vehicles, solar panels, advanced storage technologies, and household devices such as thermostats, electric water heaters and pool pumps. Based on open standards, the platform aggregates these new energy technologies from multiple manufacturers into a single manageable resource that utilities control via the GridPoint Utility Portal. The platform provides control, measurement and verification of events, increases flexibility and reduces costs for utilities to operate disparate systems, data and home devices.
GridPoint’s software enables utilities to measure control and verify loads by type (e.g., air conditioners) either in aggregate or by substation, feeder or individual customer. Additionally, utilities can offer superior demand response programs by minimizing the impact on customers (i.e., controlling temperature versus shutting down air conditioners).
Summary of Utility Benefits
--Advanced demand management by reducing peak loads through unparalleled circuit-level measurement and control of customer loads
--Predict demand for capacity planning by accessing real-time and historical reports by load type (e.g. air conditioners) either in aggregate or by substation, feeder or individual customer
--Offer advanced demand management programs
--Real-time and scheduled events
--Verification and detailed billing
--Carbon measurement and verification
--Improved grid reliability
Easy Customer Adoption, Online Energy Management
GridPoint’s software enables utilities to deploy a Web-based energy efficiency program, without installing hardware in the home, to a large number of customers. Customers gain tangible insight into their energy usage and look forward to enrolling in online energy management, demand response and other advanced solutions that provide additional functionality.
Through GridPoint’s online Customer Portal, customers learn the most cost-effective time to run appliances and can create a personal energy profile to automatically manage energy according to consumption patterns and utility rate schedules.
For customers that do not have in-home energy management devices installed, GridPoint enables customers to track a home's overall energy use and compare it to past times and to other homes in the neighborhood.
Summary of Customer Benefits
--Detailed billing which shows line item credit based on actual versus estimated participation in demand response programs
--Online energy management for unparalleled visibility into energy consumption and costs through circuit-level management (i.e. how much energy is consumed by each appliance)
The GridPoint platform provides protection from power outages, increases energy efficiency and integrates renewable energy, paving the way for the commercial success of solar and wind energy sources. The result is an economical, scaleable and environmentally beneficial way to balance demand and supply.
AMR and Smart Meter Support
GridPoint Platform 3.0 software enables utilities to manage data from both emerging smart meters and the vast installed based of AMR meters, able to incorporate data transmitted from ERT devices on the AMR meters.
Contact Us
For more information on GridPoint’s open software platform for distributed energy solutions, contact your Hometown Connections representative.
Visit the GridPoint web site for more information.
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