Landis+Gyr and CURRENT Group Partner to Deliver Smart Metering to Spain and Portugal

July 22, 2010
Landis+Gyr and CURRENT's European entity CURRENT Technologies International GmbH, have signed an agreement to deliver smart, open and interoperable energy management solutions.

Landis+Gyr and CURRENT's European entity, CURRENT Technologies International GmbH, have signed an agreement to deliver smart, open and interoperable energy management solutions. The agreement is a key ingredient in addressing the challenge to come in implementing smart grid and smart metering technologies in Spain and Portugal.

Landis+Gyr and CURRENT have joined efforts to deliver standards-based smart grid solutions by integrating CURRENT's PRIME technology into the Landis+Gyr Gridstream advanced product line.

Due to increased pressure on European distribution systems to handle intermittent renewables, increased load, and new forms of electricity generation along with new two-way communications and data management systems, traditional energy infrastructure is shifting to real-time smart systems.

For the deployments with CURRENT, Landis+Gyr combines its E450 residential smart electricity meter, which implements PRIME power line communication technology, with its Gridstream AIM software solution - both ingredients for establishing smart metering infrastructures, a key step toward realizing the smart grid.

Under the terms of the cooperation agreement, Landis+Gyr will now offer CURRENT Smart Grid products, which provide seamless integrated solutions, making grids more reliable and efficient. The offer includes the full range of CURRENT hardware and software smart grid products. CURRENT hardware includes the meter data concentrator, intelligent sensors and advanced communications equipment. CURRENT's OpenGrid software makes advanced metering possible and optimizes the operation of the distribution grid.

This partnership provides customers in Spain and Portugal with an end-to-end solution that is market proven, designed for simple and speedy implementation.

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