Idaho Falls Power Selects Elster for AMI Smart Grid Project

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, / PRNewswire / – Elster (NYSE: ELT – News announced today that Idaho Falls Power (display the asp»>Elster EnergyAxis® Smart Grid solution as a key component of its Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI project. The City of Idaho Falls City Council unanimously voted to select Elster to design its Smart Grid system, which will enable energy conservation for the utility and its customers.

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The Idaho Falls Power deployment is part of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Elster’s EnergyAxis will automate Smart Meter data collection for Idaho Falls Power’s electric customers, enabling faster demand response, improved load control, and voltage conservation. In addition, it is anticipated the utility’s customers will benefit from flexible payment options and increased visibility into energy usage via an online portal in the near future.

«The selection of a reliable and experienced Smart Grid vendor that will best serve the energy conservation needs and initiatives of and its residents was imperative in our decision. We chose Elster for its innovative Smart Grid solutions that have delivered true AMI benefits to utilities and customers across the globe,» said , general manager, Idaho Falls Power.  

«We look forward to realizing the operational efficiencies of a comprehensive Smart Grid system while enabling our customers to proactively monitor and manage their own electricity consumption,» she added.

With multi-technology capabilities and an open architecture, Elster’s EnergyAxis solution will  integrate with third-party Smart Grid technologies to create a powerful, comprehensive system for .

"The selection of Elster competition as part of demonstration projects in the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid is a testament to the power and functionality of our solution EnergyAxis," said President and CEO of Solutions Elster. "In addition to our intelligent network solutions that are reliable, our core value of supporting open industry standards allows us to partner with technology providers to scale multiple and continuing to meet our customers' current and future services. «

«We look forward to spearheading the design and deployment of Idaho Falls Power’s robust Smart Grid system to improve operational processes and set a standard for other municipalities to follow,» Munday added.

Tropos Networks will provide a city-wide wireless communications system to be used as the backhaul system in support of Elster’s AMI data. Primestone will provide a Meter Data Management (MDM system to perform detailed analysis of energy usage information collected from every Elster AMI endpoint. Tendril will provide smart thermostats, in-home displays and load control switches. Exceleron will provide a prepay/customer web portal, and Thomas Betts will provide fault circuit indicating sensors.

With a multi-technology, IP-based approach to Smart Grid deployments, Elster’s Smart Meters and EnergyAxis solution provide key features for collecting and managing energy data for both residential and commercial customers.

EnergyAxis Elster, a proven solution in the field of intelligent network with over 90 implementations of assets and five million endpoints worldwide, enables companies to:

• Realize operating efficiencies;
• And conserve environmental resources by reducing economic losses in the infrastructure of electricity, gas and water;
• Reducing losses and improving response time breakdown and repair;
• Improve customer service and consumer choice;
• Implement response to the demand that can conserve resources and reduce costs, especially during periods of peak demand;
• Provide real-time information to end users so they can better manage their energy consumption, and
• Detect and reduce non-technical losses grid.

Elster (NYSE:ELT – News is one of the world’s largest electricity, gas and water measurement and control providers. Its offerings include distribution monitoring and control, advanced smart metering, demand response, networking and software solutions, and numerous related communications and services – key components for enabling consumer choice, operational efficiency and conservation. Its products and solutions are widely used by utilities in the traditional and emerging Smart Grid markets.  

Elster has one of the most extensive installed revenue measurement bases in the world, with more than 200 million metering devices deployed over the course of the last 10 years. It sells its products and services in more than 130 countries across electricity, gas, water and multi-utility applications for residential, commercial and industrial, and transmission and distribution applications.

For more information about Elster, please visit www.elster.com.

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