ATLANTA, Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepco Holdings Inc.
(PHI) has entered into an enterprise-wide license agreement to
deploy a comprehensive grid analytics solution from Landis+Gyr
across its service territories. The analytics package includes a
suite of applications aimed at enhancing asset life, reliability
and distribution system optimization.
PHI's operating companies, including Pepco, Delmarva Power and
Atlantic City Electric, will deploy six different analytics
applications for visulization, planning and real-time operational
analytics support. The core objective for PHI's analytics
project is to provide greater analysis, prediction, optimization
and decision making capabilities. This includes the management of
network assets, load balancing, volt/VAR optimization, outage
management and restoration, reliability, outage detection, and
improved fault isolation and system restoration.
"Grid analytics represent the next step for a utility like ours
that already has access to data across the distribution system and
is planning for ways to get the most value for our customers," said
William Gausman, PHI's Senior Vice
President for Strategic Initiatives. "Our employees will be
able to analyze data and visualize planning processes like never
before, while monitoring and enhancing our distribution
service."
PHI announced the deployment earlier this year of the GRIDplan
Reliability module that is part of the analytics suite developed by
GRIDiant, which was acquired in June by Landis+Gyr.
"This project represents the first major deployment of an
enterprise-wide, physics-based grid analytics platform by a utility
in North America," said
Prasanna Venkatesan, Executive Vice
President for Landis+Gyr Americas region. "For PHI and many other
utilities, analytics represent the next step in achieving ongoing
benefits from smart grid investments already made, and have the
potential to solve many of the challenges associated with new uses
of energy and distributed generation resources."
Landis+Gyr's advanced grid analytics suite is driven by the
distinct usage of the distribution network model and over 12 years
of development, validation, and testing of very sophisticated
physics based algorithms combined with data from across the utility
and helps to visualize, simulate, predict, and optimize management
of the grid.
About Landis+Gyr
Landis+Gyr is the leading global
provider of integrated energy management products tailored to
energy company needs and unique in its ability to deliver true
end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers
the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity
metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of
smart grid. With annualized sales of more than US$1.6 billion, Landis+Gyr, an independent growth
platform of the Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502) and 40% owned by the
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, operates in 30 countries across five
continents, and employs 5,200 people with the sole mission of
helping the world manage energy better. More information is
available at landisgyr.com.
About PHI
Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM) is one of the largest energy
delivery companies in the Mid-Atlantic region, serving about 2
million customers in Delaware, the
District of Columbia, Maryland and
New Jersey. PHI subsidiaries
Pepco, Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric provide regulated
electricity service; Delmarva Power also provides natural gas
service. PHI also provides energy efficiency and renewable energy
services through Pepco Energy Services.
For more information visit www.pepcoholdings.com
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