CMEEC Implements ELUTIONS' Price Responsive Load Management (PRLM) Software for Demand Response
Tampa, Florida - April 26, 2004 - ELUTIONS announced today that Connecticut Municipal Electrical Energy Cooperative (CMEEC) has successfully implemented the PRLM Software application to support their participation in the ISO New England's (ISO-NE) Demand Response Programs.
PRLM is a modular component of ELUTIONS' Active Energy Management (AEM®) system, an Internet-based, wide area energy information management solution that offers CMEEC and their Member Utilities the tools to realize and benefit from a faster and more efficient communication of load response events and near-real-time visibility of factors that impact the wholesale energy market. The ELUTIONS AEM® system provides event initiation, customer notification, event monitoring, performance compliance alerts and settlement calculation for the ISO-NE, and participating Demand Response Providers.
CMEEC is administering contracts on behalf of Wallingford, South Norwalk, 3rd Taxing District of Norwalk, Groton, and Norwich . "CMEEC is looking forward to working with ELUTIONS in this venture," says Raymond Smith, Director of Utilities for Wallingford .
Don Conner, General Manager of Major Accounts for the City of Groton Department of Utilities says, "We are very satisfied with the quality of service and equipment provided by ELUTIONS".
ELUTIONS has built a comprehensive Internet-based system, expanding on several highly successful load response program implementations. AEM® is an energy use analysis tool with flexible demand response capabilities, and integrated two-way (wired and wireless) communications platform. The AEM® application supports open data exchange protocols that is fundamental within New England ISO's Internet-Based Communication System Open Solution (IBCS-OS) Demand Response Program and provides a fully compliant solution for CMEEC and their customers.
ELUTIONS integrated the iR1200 ruggedized data modem with its Global Pulse Input Module (GPIM) as the primary backbone technology for collecting meter data. Data is collected directly from the meter and sent wirelessly over the iDEN® network to the AEM® system. This wireless technology easily interfaces into metering, sub-metering, and other electronic equipment, providing CMEEC with an alternative approach to the traditional phone line transmission method and creating a cost-effective, reliable, flexible and secure connection.
"We are pleased to be the provider of choice for CMEEC's system to support the Demand Response Program," says Dana Kinlaw Regional Sales Manager at ELUTIONS. "Systems like this require software, which has been developed from the ground up as a secure, robust and real-time solution. We are honored to have CMEEC's confidence in our products and services".
The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative (CMEEC) is the non-profit governmental joint action agency formed by the state's municipal electric utilities in 1976. CMEEC provides the full requirements for power supply at wholesale to its member municipally owned electric utilities, which include the City of Groton Department of Utilities, the City of Norwich, Department of Public Utilities, the Town of Wallingford Department of Public Utilities Electric Division, the Borough of Jewett City Department of Public Utilities, the South Norwalk Electric Works and the Third Taxing District of the City of Norwalk Electric Division. CMEEC is governed by a board comprised of representatives from each of its member systems and is a political subdivision of the State of Connecticut .
