Erich Gunther, EnerNex chairman and chief technology officer, will kick off the Smart Metering West Coast conference in Los Angeles on Monday, August 20.

Gunther will be leading a workshop on Home Area Networks that will examine the critical role of AMI in this developing technology. Erich is the chairman of the OpenHAN task force of the UtilityAMI working group which has been working over the past several months to develop the use cases, requirements, high-level architecture and security policies necessary to implement demand response and energy efficiency programs.

The workshop will cover the work completed to date, obtain feedback from the workshop attendees and develop an action plan for moving forward. This work is critical to ensuring that the industry is able to deploy demand responsive infrastructure quickly and cost effectively. It is also necessary to ensure communications infrastructure, software and end-use devices are available from multiple vendors and are interoperable.

Erich will be assisted during the workshop by other members of the OpenHAN task force including representatives of Southern California Edison, PG&E, SDG&E, Consumers Energy and others.

For more information on Smart Metering West Cost, visit www.metering.com/westcoast.

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Contact: Carrie Parks
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