Alstom to help manage New York Citys electricity demand
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As part of a Department of Energy Smart Grid Demonstration Project, Alstom has been awarded a contract to deliver Demand Response Management System (DRMS) to Con Edison. Con Edison provides electric service to 3.3 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York. Alstoms DRMS, based on its e-terraDRBizNet 3.0 technology, will allow Con Edison to efficiently use consumer loads to manage energy supply and demand, with incentives offered to electricity customers to reduce consumption during periods of peak distribution system demand such as hot summer days, or to alleviate stress on the distribution system. This demand response management system optimizes existing energy available and paves the way to a reliable grid.
In 2013, with more than 8,300,000 square feet of office space under construction, New York City was one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. Con Edison has 94,000 miles of underground electric cables, plus another 34,000 miles of overhead wires to serve its customers. As utilities strive to minimize the ongoing extension of infrastructure and optimize existing assets, Alstoms e-terraDRBizNet 3.0 provides the digital intelligence to make fast decisions to compensate energy flow.
Con Edison needed a robust, open, comprehensive and scalable solution to manage our growing Demand Response activities and data within a single platform. Alstoms DRMS will help streamline our business processes, and efficiently manage and optimize our growing Demand Response portfolio, said Andre Wellington, Project Manager from Con Edison.
Alstoms DRMS manages the largest demand response portfolio in the world. Today, our e-terraDRBizNet solution enables more than 10,000 MW of demand response, representing over 1,000,000 end-use residential customers and over 10,000 commercial and industrial customers. We welcome Con Edison to our expanding and diverse customer base of utilities, aggregators and Regional Transmission Operators around the world, said Karim El Naggar, Vice President of Alstom Grids Network Management Solutions.
Alstoms DRMS is a system that integrates residential, commercial and industrial Demand Response programs and device technologies; it can be used from small pilot deployments, such as handling new, initial automated demand response programs, to large industrial-grade DRMS needs, such as efficiently calling on a large complex portfolio of energy resources to address surging demand. The DRMS forecasts available load curtailment capacity. In some utility installations it has been deployed with the capability to send signals for automatic load control to aggregators or directly to devices such as air conditioners or water heaters, thus optimizing the use of electricity. It then calculates customers normal electricity usage as a baseline, and then compares actual reduced usage to measure performance.
About Alstom
Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 93,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales of over 20 billion and booked 21.5 billion in orders in 2013/14.
Alstom Grid has one clear vision: to develop innovative solutions for a flexible, reliable, affordable and sustainable electrical grid, everywhere. We design, manufacture, install and service the power transmission and distribution products and systems that empower the planets low carbon economy... for now and for the future.
Alstom Grid has over 130 years experience and ranks among the top three in the electrical transmission sector with an annual sales turnover of more than 3.5 billion. Alstom Grids 17,000 employees are spread across 87 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide and have one common mission: be our customers trusted partner, from the source to the city.
We are energising a smarter world with Alstom.
About Con Edison
Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. [NYSE: ED], one of the nations largest investor-owned energy companies, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues and $41 billion in assets. The utility provides electric, gas and steam service to more than 3 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, N.Y.
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Aline Besselièvre (Alstom Grid) Tel: +33 1 49 01 67 60; aline.besselievre@alstom.com
Elizabeth Wang (Alstom Grid) Tel: +33 1 49 01 61 23; elizabeth.wang-ext@alstom.com
Fallon McLoughlin (US Media Relations) Tel: +1 347 821 8455 fallon.mcLoughlin@alstom.com
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