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Southern California Edison Wins Award for AMI Development Initiative, EnerNex RecognizedThe Utility Planning Network, a worldwide membership-based peer group of utility professionals facilitating the Automatic Meter Reader Association (AMRA) annual Metering Awards Program, recognized Phase I of Southern California Edison's (SCE's) AMI Development Program as the 2005/2006 Best AMR Initiative by a North American investor-owned utility. This award recognizes SCE's innovative approach to systems engineering, vendor engagement and external engagement with the industry that provided a catalyst in the marketplace for the next generation of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems. The awards committee asked each winner to identify key players that helped them with the project and SCE named project consultants EnerNex, IBM and KEMA to receive the award jointly with them. According to EnerNex co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Erich Gunther, the award validates EnerNex's systems engineering and architecture development methodology, based in large part on the EPRI IntelliGrid Architecture, which EnerNex personnel helped to develop and implement: "One of the key facets in making any large-scale utility communications infrastructure not only work, but also be positioned for growth, is an extensible, standards-based framework. IntelliGrid lays the basis for this and SCE took this into consideration in asking us to help them and utilizing it throughout the entire AMI development process. "
Erich Gunther with members of the award-winning SCE AMI development team The panel of judges for the award represented PPL, National Grid, Gaz Metro (Canada), Austin Energy, Portland General Electric and Connecticut Light & Power. The Utility Planning Network, in association with AMRA, organizes the annual awards program. SCE's AMI team was honored along with other winners at AMRA's Autovation 2006: The AMRA International Symposium, which took place Oct. 22-25 in Nashville, Tenn. Information on the scope and status of the project can be found on SCE's web site at http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/ami/ EnerNex provides innovative and professional electric power research, engineering and consulting services to government, utilities, industry, and private institutions. EnerNex offers these in the areas of power system studies and analysis as well as utility communication and automation. |
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