Alstom Grid and S&C Electric Company announce partnership for Smart Grid Solutions
Alstom Grid and S&C Electric Company announce partnership for Smart Grid Solutions
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Alstom Grid and Chicago-based S&C Electric Company announced on 2 February their alliance to jointly develop smart grid solutions that demonstrate enhanced interoperability and next generation real-time self-healing networks between the Alstom Grids e-terradistributionTM Integrated Distribution Management System (IDMS) and S&Cs IntelliTEAM SGTM Automatic Restoration System.
Scalability and effective data management are essential to the implementation of smart grid deployments. A fully integrated system dramatically improves the ease of managing large-scale installations and significantly enhances distribution grid reliability and efficiency while minimizing the duration of customer outages. The sophisticated solution will also enable seamless integration of distributed energy resources (wind, solar, electrical vehicle charging, and energy storage) across the distribution grid.
About Alstom Grid
Alstom Grid, the newest sector of Alstom, has more than 100 years of expertise in electrical grids. Whether for utilities or electro-intensive industries or facilitating the trading of energy, Alstom Grid brings power to their customers projects. Alstom Grid ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector with a sales turnover of approximately 3.5 billion in 2009. It has 20,000 employees and over 90 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide. Its four main business areas are Products, Systems, Automation and Service. At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, Alstom Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chainfrom power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user.
About S&C Electric Company
S&C, headquartered in Chicago, is applying its heritage of innovation to address challenges facing the worlds power grids, and is thus shaping the future of reliable electricity delivery. The mission of employee-owned S&C is to continually develop new solutions for electricity delivery, fostering the improved efficiency and reliability required for the intelligent grid. Additional information about S&C is available at www.sandc.com.
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Andrés López Morancho - Tel: +34 91 334 5800 - andres.lopez-morancho@crn.alstom.com
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