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ESNA members
at the following
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ESNA members
at the following
conferences
May 03, 2012
Milan, Italy
M2M Forum 2012,
XI - edition
May 09-10, 2012
London, UK
Smart Grid
Data & Information Mangement
May 09-11, 2012
Shanghai, China
2nd China Int. Smart Grid Technology & Equipment Exhibition
May 22-23, 2012
Dusseldorf, DE
Smart Grid Cyber Security
May 22-23, 2012
Miami, USA
Utilities & Smart Metering Latin America
Summit 2012
May 24-25, 2012
Berlin, DE
Seminar: Ensuring
IT Security for Energy Infrastructure
May 28-30, 2012
Doha, Qatar
The Middle East
Smart Cities
Summit 2012
May 29, 2012
London, UK
Smart Metering
Update
May 30, 2012
London, UK
European
Smart Metering Forum
June 04-06, 2012
Dubai, UAE
Smart Electricity Conference - Grid Grid investment
and deployment
June 06-07, 2012
London, UK
Realisation
of the
Future Smart Grid
June 11, 2012
London, UK
Grid Comms
Smart Energy IP
June 20-21, 2012
London, UK
Grid Capacity & Stability Conference
June 20-22, 2012
Paris La-Defense, FR
Smart Grids 2012
June 25-26, 2012
London, UK
Grid-Scale
Energy Storage
June 26-28, 2012
Washington DC, USA
A National Town Meeting
on Demand Response
& Smart Grid
June 27-28, 2012
Amsterdam, NL
Smart City Event
2012
June 27-28, 2012
London, UK
European
Demand Response
&
Dynamic Pricing
July 03-05, 2012
Shanghai, China
Smart City Asia
Congress 2012
September 11-13, 2012
Prague, CZ
Europe's Leading Power Forum
September 12-14, 2012
New Dehli, India
2nd World Smart Grid Conference
India Week
November 06-08, 2012
Johannesburg, SA
the new Frontier for Renewable Energy
November 27-28, 2012
Johannesburg, SA
Powering Africa - Ministerial Summit 2012
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Echelon and Holley Metering to Create Joint Venture to Develop and Sell Innovative Smart Grid Solutions in China
New Joint Venture Company Combines the Unique Capabilities of Silicon Valley and China to Bring Feature-Rich, Cost-Effective Smart Grid Solutions to a Broader Market
New Joint Venture Company Combines the Unique Capabilities of Silicon Valley and China to Bring Feature-Rich, Cost-Effective Smart Grid Solutions to a Broader Market
The new company will be headquartered in Hangzhou, China, and will develop advanced smart metering and related solutions that deliver performance, reliability and expanded functionality to China’s developing smart grid. The partnership will leverage Echelon's Silicon Valley energy control networking innovation center and its 20 years of experience in highly reliable power line control and communications hardware and software platforms for smart grid applications, and Holley Metering's breadth of metering solutions, low cost manufacturing competencies and extensive customer relationships. The joint venture is majority owned by Echelon. Echelon and Holley Metering will both contribute cash and resources into the new company.
This transaction represents a unique relationship between leading Chinese and U.S. companies in the smart grid industry. Echelon and Holley Metering can leverage their respective strengths through this cooperation. The partnership will create significant value, not only for the two companies involved, but also for the customers, distributors, OEMs and other agents throughout China. This transaction is a highly constructive development in the industry.
"We are delighted to broaden our partnership with Holley Metering to serve the larger smart grid market in China. With a mandate to connect 300 million homes and businesses to the smart grid over the next five years, Chinese utilities will need to leverage the best the world has to offer," said Ron Sege, chairman and CEO of Echelon. "Our new joint venture is positioned to bring the most innovative solutions in the world to bear on China's need to deliver and use energy more efficiently by leveraging both Silicon Valley and China-based ingenuity. We are also excited about the possibility of achieving Echelon and Holley Metering’s broader vision for the joint venture’s future in developing smart meter products for markets outside China."
"We are extremely excited to utilize Echelon's field-proven technologies and leverage their extensive experience gained by connecting more than 35 million homes and 300,000 buildings to the smart grid," said Jin Meixing, chairman of Holley Metering. "By bringing the best technology in the world into China and incorporating it into products that meet this market's unique needs, we can grow our business and satisfy a critical, unmet need."
The Echelon-Holley joint venture is expected to be operational in Q3 2012.
ETSI Approves Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP)
for Grid Technologies
for Grid Technologies
Sophia Antipolis, France – January 18, 2012 – ETSI has recently published two specifications for Smart Grid that will help drive the development and deployment of open, interoperable smart grid technologies internationally.
As the smart grid evolves, it will become commonplace for utilities to cooperate with grid-aware systems and devices to reduce power usage intelligently, giving commercial, industrial and municipal users reduced rates in exchange for lower consumption while increasing grid reliability and the use of renewable energy sources. Automated demand response, peak load management, and other programs can mean significant cost savings for commercial and residential customers. This is why it is important that vendors work together through open standards to increase the market for compatible products and technologies. Standards-based smart grid devices and systems can monitor and save energy, lower costs, improve productivity, enhance service, quality, safety, and convenience, and help in the transformation to a more energy efficient future and smarter electricity grid.
The two OSGP specifications that originated with ESNA and were published by ETSI for global use are:
- Group specification GS OSG 001: Open Smart Grid Protocol. Produced by the ETSI Open Smart Grid Industry Specification Group, this application layer protocol can be used with multiple communication media.
- Technical specification TS 103 908: Powerline Telecommunications (PLT); BPSK Narrow Band Power Line Channel for Smart Metering Applications. This specification defines a high-performance narrow band powerline channel for control networking in the smart grid that can be used with multiple smart grid devices. It was produced by the ETSI Technical Committee for Powerline Telecommunications (TC PLT).
"As the effects of globalization permeate further and accelerate, ETSI is providing businesses and the industry with efficient solutions for accessing and developing new and established world markets via standardization," said Luis Jorge Romero, director general of ETSI.
"ESNA has been very active during the past year in the various Smart Metering and Smart Grid standardisation activities across Europe as well as the rest of the world. We are honoured to share this latest achievement with OSGP being recognized by ETSI, and we anticipate sharing more milestones reached with other leading standards organizations in the coming year," said Bo Danielsen, president of ESNA and head of smart grid projects at SEAS-NVE, the largest consumer-owned utility in Denmark.
"Industry's involvement in standards development is critical as standards contribute to innovation, enable interoperability, provide investment security to clients and contribute to fostering global markets, and moreover provide choice and investment security for our customers," said Bastian Fischer, VP Industry Strategy Utilities Global Business Unit at Oracle, ESNA board member and vice-chairman of the ETSI OSG Industry Specification Group. "Oracle is uniquely positioned to deliver mission-critical smart grid software applications that have been engineered to work together in collaboration with our partners. ESNA's success with ETSI will help ensure that Oracle and the smart grid ecosystem will provide reliable solutions to utilities that are complete, future proof, open, and cost-effective."
- ENDS -
Notes for Editors
About ETSI
ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadband and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose more than 700 member companies and organizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determine its work programme and participate directly in its work. For more information please visit: www.etsi.org
ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadband and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose more than 700 member companies and organizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide, determine its work programme and participate directly in its work. For more information please visit: www.etsi.org
About ESNA
Energy Services Network Association (ESNA) is an independent global, not-for-profit association under Dutch law. Members are utilities, software, hardware and service providers, and solution integrators sharing a common goal and vision for promoting open standards for energy demand side management, smart grid and smart metering systems. The association promotes the adoption of the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) and related services and infrastructure, based on Networked Energy Services (NES), together with the value-added applications for secure, reliable and cost-effective automatic meter management, smart grid management, billing, CRM, CIS and other applications.
More information about ESNA can be found at www.esna.org or by emailing secr@esna.org.
Energy Services Network Association (ESNA) is an independent global, not-for-profit association under Dutch law. Members are utilities, software, hardware and service providers, and solution integrators sharing a common goal and vision for promoting open standards for energy demand side management, smart grid and smart metering systems. The association promotes the adoption of the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) and related services and infrastructure, based on Networked Energy Services (NES), together with the value-added applications for secure, reliable and cost-effective automatic meter management, smart grid management, billing, CRM, CIS and other applications.
More information about ESNA can be found at www.esna.org or by emailing secr@esna.org.
About OSGP
In 2010, ESNA members announced their intent to publish OSGP as an open standard, enabling independent implementation of interoperable meters and other smart grid devices from multiple vendors on the same network. Built on open ISO/IEC and IEEE standards, OSGP adds additional security and reliability services necessary to properly network and manage devices in the smart grid. The OSGP standard will ensure reliability, robustness, and efficiency of the smart grid, and as applications are deployed such as point-of-use monitoring and control of power usage, it will enable utilities to reduce peak loads and pass on energy cost savings to consumers. In addition to building OSGP-compliant solutions, utilities can better avoid vendor lock-in and purchase best-in-class products to achieve better ROI.
The ETSI logo is a Trade Mark of ETSI registered for the benefit of its Members.
In 2010, ESNA members announced their intent to publish OSGP as an open standard, enabling independent implementation of interoperable meters and other smart grid devices from multiple vendors on the same network. Built on open ISO/IEC and IEEE standards, OSGP adds additional security and reliability services necessary to properly network and manage devices in the smart grid. The OSGP standard will ensure reliability, robustness, and efficiency of the smart grid, and as applications are deployed such as point-of-use monitoring and control of power usage, it will enable utilities to reduce peak loads and pass on energy cost savings to consumers. In addition to building OSGP-compliant solutions, utilities can better avoid vendor lock-in and purchase best-in-class products to achieve better ROI.
The ETSI logo is a Trade Mark of ETSI registered for the benefit of its Members.
For general ETSI press enquiries: Ultan Mulligan
Events & Communications, ETSI
Tel: +33 4 92944388
Email: ultan.mulligan@etsi.org
Events & Communications, ETSI
Tel: +33 4 92944388
Email: ultan.mulligan@etsi.org
For more information about ESNA: Harry Crijns
Association Secretary, ESNA
Tel: +31 24 388 0 747
Email: harry@esna.org
Association Secretary, ESNA
Tel: +31 24 388 0 747
Email: harry@esna.org
Energy Services Network Association (ESNA), a non-profit association composed of utilities, manufacturers, and integrators, announced that the CENELEC Administration Board officially approved, in their November meeting, ESNA’s request to become CENELEC’s Technical Liaison Partner.
In October CENELEC Technical Bureau decided already positively on ESNA’s request and welcomed our standardisation initiative OSGP, as a new work item in CLC/TC 13, referenced under CLC/prTS50xxx; “OSGP for utility metering, tariff, load control and other applications - Communication protocols, data structures and procedures”.
“We are happy with CENELEC’s decision to accept ESNA as their Technical Liaison Partner, as well as our initiative to support the standardisation process for OSGP”, declared Bo Danielsen, President of ESNA and head of smart grid projects at SEAS-NVE, the largest consumer-owned utility in Denmark. “This step forward will speed up the development and deployment of the smart grid”. The smart grid is more than just smart meters, it is smart meters, smart sensors, smart switchgear and other smart equipment working together to make the grid more reliable, robust, and efficient. OSGP fills a gap in the market by bringing an open, field-proven, standard that addresses the needs of a broad range of smart grid devices, and not just smart meters. In close co-operation with CENELEC, ESNA looks forward to formalise and to publishing OSGP as a European and international standard for smart grid communications to benefit utilities, their customers, and suppliers.”
Companies who support ESNA’s OSGP initiative welcomed Cenelec's partnership:
“We are happy with CENELEC’s decision to accept ESNA as their Technical Liaison Partner, as well as our initiative to support the standardisation process for OSGP”, declared Bo Danielsen, President of ESNA and head of smart grid projects at SEAS-NVE, the largest consumer-owned utility in Denmark. “This step forward will speed up the development and deployment of the smart grid”. The smart grid is more than just smart meters, it is smart meters, smart sensors, smart switchgear and other smart equipment working together to make the grid more reliable, robust, and efficient. OSGP fills a gap in the market by bringing an open, field-proven, standard that addresses the needs of a broad range of smart grid devices, and not just smart meters. In close co-operation with CENELEC, ESNA looks forward to formalise and to publishing OSGP as a European and international standard for smart grid communications to benefit utilities, their customers, and suppliers.”
Companies who support ESNA’s OSGP initiative welcomed Cenelec's partnership: