SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calico Energy Services – (www.calicoenergy.com) today announced it has executed contractual agreements with the City of Naperville, IL and its Department of Public Utility-Electric to deploy an advanced energy management platform.
“The City of Naperville is excited to be moving forward with the implementation phase of its smart grid initiative,” said Community Relations Manager Nadja P. Lalvani. “We are pleased to be this much closer to providing more options for our utility customers to choose how and when they use electricity. We are happy to be working with Calico and our other vendors on this project.”
“We are honored to be a part of Naperville’s groundbreaking smart grid initiative – and to help the city and its utility customers reduce their energy consumption and build a sustainable future,” said Brian Dawson, CEO of Calico Energy. “We appreciate Naperville's disciplined, customer-focused approach – as well as their thorough vendor selection process. We are happy that Calico can provide the flexibility, depth of product functionality, and value for both Naperville’s Utility and its energy customers.”
As part of the City of Naperville’s smart grid deployment, Calico is providing their award-winning Energy Intelligence Suite™ (EIS) energy management platform and hardware from Schneider Electric. In addition, Calico’s platform connects to the city’s new Elster AMI meters.
Calico’s EIS™ platform gives Naperville’s Public Utility complete command-and-control over its smart grid data system, allowing the utility to manage demand, improve reliability, reduce costs, and quantify the impact of energy management programs through integrated analytics. The platform also gives utility customers the ability to view and control their energy use through energy management portals, on-premise displays, energy management devices, and electric vehicle charging (EV) systems.
Naperville’s smart grid program represents one of the broadest deployments of an integrated energy management platform at a municipality to date, and includes Calico’s EIS OpCenter™ for load control management, HomeSMART™ for home automation, BusinessSMART™ for small commercial automation, and EIS Mobile™ energy management module. The combined solution helps automate the City’s electric, water, and natural gas systems, boost energy efficiency, and manage energy demand. In addition, residents will be able to purchase a variety of home automation devices through local retailers to manage their energy use, including: in-home displays, programmable/controllable thermostats, electricity load control devices, and on-premise electricity storage units. The complete smart grid solution is scheduled to be rolled out in Q3 2011.
The City of Naperville, a metropolitan area of Chicago, is the fifth largest city in Illinois and has a population of 150,000. The City’s grid modernization initiative is designed to reduce electricity, water, and natural gas use; manage peak demand; and lower energy costs – while increasing economic opportunities for businesses. The City of Naperville was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) matching-funds grant for the Naperville Smart Grid Initiative (NSGI) Program and outlined sub-projects.
The City’s smart grid project will empower customers with expanded choices about how they consume energy, education about how to conserve energy and automate savings, and the ability to view water, natural gas, and electricity usage and costs. The program will also ensure greater reliability of energy through demand response, and provide a variety of electricity rate structures that enable customer cost-savings. The combined technologies provided by Calico, Schneider Electric, and Elster will expand the City’s communications network by installing an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and smart meters, automating its distribution grid, and implementing Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) to increase power quality.
About Calico Energy Services
Calico Energy Services offers a secure software platform that simplifies Smart Grid data management and services – providing customers with energy intelligence, improved efficiency, reduced costs, and increased profit through a unified solution.
The company’s flagship product, Energy Intelligence Suite™, is an award-winning software service that provides modular solutions for Smart Grid integration and enablement. These include: energy data aggregation and analytics; command and control; demand side management; and intuitive technologies that engage customers in long-term strategies for efficiency and energy reduction.
Calico’s solutions are delivered by an experienced team of industry specialists who lead an honest, open assessment to help customers plan, architect, integrate and rapidly deploy a successful solution.
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