NRGi, the fourth-largest utility in Denmark, has selected a smart grid control system to implement throughout its service territory. The system includes Echelon software for sensing, monitoring and control applications for the low-voltage grid and smart meters for nearly 150,000 homes and businesses.

In 2008, NRGi acquired neighboring utility Energi Horsens and awarded a 50,000-customer deployment of the Networked Energy Services (NES) System within the former Energi Horsens territory. Deployment was largely completed in 2010.

Echelon's Networked Energy smart grid infrastructure consists of a Web services-based network operating system that interacts with a family of highly integrated, advanced electronic electricity meters and other smart grid devices over an Internet Protocol (IP) network infrastructure. The NES System enables multiple devices to share a single IP connection through the use of the Open Smart Grid Protocol and Echelon's standards-based power-line networking technology. This decreases the per-point connection cost, enabling the system to easily and cost-effectively incorporate new wide-area-networking technologies over the life of the system.

For more information, visit www.echelon.com.