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Alstom's Integrated DMS Selected for Maui Smart Grid Project
April 25, 2012
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Alstom Grid has been selected to provide its e-terra distribution integrated distribution management system (IDMS) for Maui Electric Company's (MECO) smart grid demonstration project. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and is co-led by the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii.
The demonstration project is intended to evaluate how smart grid technologies can help MECO reduce peak demand, improve service quality, inform consumer energy use decisions, and integrate renewable energy. Some of the technologies tested in the project include advanced metering infrastructure, home area networks, and battery energy storage.
The Maui Smart Grid Project is evaluating smart grid technologies that can help Maui Electric Company and its customers reduce peak energy demand, improve service quality, inform consumer energy use decisions, and integrate renewable energy. The demonstration project will utilize distribution circuits in South Maui and up to 200 customer volunteers that can receive in-home smart grid technologies. The project is funded by the US DOE Renewable and Distributed Systems Integration (RDSI) program and is part of a nationwide set of demonstration projects. Data from the Maui project will be compared with results of similar initiatives to inform future smart grid decision making.
Alstom's IDMS suite of smart distribution applications will be deployed to improve grid self-healing, power quality and energy efficiency for enhanced customer satisfaction. The IDMS platform will be integrated with smart grid data to provide MECO's dispatchers with enhanced visibility into their distribution grid operations and control over distributed energy resources.
Source: Alstom Grid
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