Press Release - Date: June 23, 2020 |
Improved Power modules and integration of ADMO light
The newest version of Test Universe 4.20, OMICRON’s solution for advanced settings-based protection testing, offers improved ease of use of the Power modules and the ribbon menu. Further customer requirements have been implemented and, with the integration of ADMO light, users can use the full functionality of ADMO in managing up to 50 assets.
Working with ramps in the Advanced Power module
The Advanced Power module’s inpu
t options for entering criteria for automatic ramp assessment have been extended and simplified. Additionally, the power view now displays the trip during ramping. The ribbon in all Distance and Power modules dynamically displays additional commands, providing a closer link between the different areas of the modules and improving usability.
Permanent ADMO light license
The “light” version provides the full ADMO standalone functionality, but for a limited number of assets. The intelligent data management software allows for central planning and management of all engineering, testing and maintenance activities. In addition to the 50 assets, the permanent license also covers the management of an unlimited number of test sets.
Available from July 2020.
Company profile
OMICRON is an international company providing innovative testing and diagnostic solutions for electrical power supply systems. The use of OMICRON products offers the greatest reliability in evaluating the status of primary and secondary technical equipment. Comprehensive services in the areas of consulting, commissioning, testing, diagnostics, and training are an integral part of OMICRON's service offering.
Customers in over 160 countries benefit from the company's ability to supply cutting-edge products of outstanding quality. Service centers on every continent also provide a broad range of application knowledge/expertise and first-class customer support.
All of this, coupled with a powerful network of sales partners, has helped OMICRON establish itself as a market leader in the field of electrical power engineering.
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OMICRON electronics
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Nathan Herrera
Nathan.herrera@omicronenergy.com
www.omicronenergy.com… more…Press Release - Date: April 1, 2020 |
Manufacturer of the OmniMax LED replacement lamp, Evluma, curates an accessory line of decorative globes to assist customers converting post top lighting from HID to LED.
Street and area lighting manufacturer Evluma, announces the release of a new globe accessory line, OmniMax Lighting Solutions (OLS) to complement their OmniMax family of LED replacement lamps. OLS is a custom, curated selection of spherical and acorn style globes for decorative streetlights. The OmniMax is a Bluetooth-co
nnected, screw-in replacement lamp for use in decorative post top globe and acorn lights. The release of a globe line to complement the OmniMax is designed to make the HID to LED conversion and maintenance process easier for Evluma customers.
Customers executing a retrofit project can conveniently purchase a replacement globe at the same time they purchase the OmniMax. “The wide variety of styles and materials offered means that we can typically provide a customer with a globe that matches an older style,” said Marketing Director, Cathleen Shattuck. “Customers can refresh globes simultaneously with OmniMax installation to save on labor, or if they suddenly discover damage to individual light fixtures, we can quickly provide them with a solution. Our high level of customer service means we are well-adapted to quick turnaround on orders of any size, keeping the process convenient and low cost.”
Using OmniMax, municipalities, utilities and electric departments converting post top fixtures from HID to LED can do so in under 5 minutes a fixture. The OmniMax is available in both Premium and Standard models. Premium models are Bluetooth-enabled and are compatible with Evluma’s wireless control application, ConnectLED. Both models carry a ten-year warranty and offer Evluma’s signature low-glare illumination.
About Evluma
Formed in 2008, Evluma is committed to developing affordable, long-lasting and environmentally low-impact LED lighting solutions that fundamentally change the landscape of the outdoor utility lighting market. Evluma’s high standard of customer service and background in innovative lighting technologies, automation and software design creatively ideate and inform its utility-grade products. Evluma is located in Renton, WA, USA.
… more…Press Release - Date: March 12, 2020 |
Bellwether Management Solutions has been selected by Central EMC, in Sanford, NC, to provide AMI Meter Installation and Project Management services as part of CEMC's Smart Grid Project. The deployment of approximately 20,000 meters will begin in March of 2020 and is anticipated to be complete in February of 2021.
Metering Equipment and Services Supplier Article - Date: December 9, 2019 |  |
Weakley County Municipal Electric System used Bellwether Management Solutions as Contractor on our AMI Project. Bellwether installed almost 20,000 meters during our 12-month installation process.
We were very pleased with the quality and quantity of work that Bellwether performed. The employees were easy to work with and managed our project well. I was particularly impressed with how few complaints we received from our customers, even though we had no advance informational campaign. The f
ew complaints we received were very minor and were resolved to the customers' satisfaction in a timely manner by the Bellwether staff.
I am happy to give Bellwether a very favorable reference.
Faron L. Collins
General Manager
Weakley County Municipal Electric System, Martin, TN… more…Hometown Connections & Sagewell To Offer Electrification Growth Consulting And EV Load Management Press Release - Date: September 13, 2019 |
Hometown Connections, Inc., the utility services organization, and Sagewell, Inc., announced a partnership to offer community-owned utilities carbon emissions reducing load growth consulting and electric vehicle (EV) load management.
Helping Community-owned Utilities Increase Revenues through Electrification Programs
Sagewell designs and implements electrification programs that improve utility bottom lines. With Sagewell’s assistance, public power utilities can grow their revenues and
margins, reduce electric rates, reduce costs, and save carbon all at the same time. When residential electric customers switch home heating from fossil fuels such as natural gas, propane or heating oil to high efficiency heat pumps, or from gasoline-powered vehicles to electric vehicles utilities are able to grow their business significantly.
Strategic Electrification/Load Growth Consulting
To support electrification growth programs for public power, Sagewell combines advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meter datasets from utilities across the county and data-supported industry best practices to provide unique insights into utility customers—where utility margins are earned and lost, and what actions and technologies can drive revenue growth through beneficial electrification. For utilities with AMI data, Sagewell’s SageSightSM smart-meter data analytics software can analyze data from millions of meters in minutes and can provide highly detailed customer-by-customer analysis results. By analyzing actual energy and capacity costs of utilities in combination with real-world hourly smart-meter data, Sagewell provides recommendations to utilities and joint action agencies on how to achieve growth through evidence-based high-impact electrification programs.
EV Load Management and EV & Heat Pump Sales Growth Programs
The growth of electric vehicles and high-efficiency cold-climate heat pumps will transform the community-owned electric utility businesses. Sagewell’s EV load management and easy-to-implement EV and heat pump marketing programs allow community-owned utilities to accelerate off-peak kWh sales while reducing carbon emissions and minimizing costly peak load increases.
Sagewell’s American Public Power Association award-winning Bring Your Own Charger® (BYOC) EV load management program is an off-peak charging incentive program for utilities with or without advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meters. This program does not use any load control hardware allowing it to reach up to record-breaking 80% of EVs in a utility territory. BYOC works with any make or model of EV and any charger type. The program has demonstrated over its three-year operating history that it can shift 95% of EV charging to off-peak hours, and can provide up to four times the total peak load reduction of hardware load control-based solutions at half the cost.
Sagewell’s analysis of heat pump energy use data from smart meters also enables utilities to deliver the most competitive home heating and cooling solutions to residential customers and to maximize load growth for utilities, while significantly reducing carbon emissions.
“To meet the demand for EV load management and other strategic electrification programs, Hometown Connections selected Sagewell as our partner in recognition of its strong track record serving public power utilities and joint action agencies,” said Tim Blodgett, President and CEO. “We look forward to working with the Sagewell team to identify beneficial electrification opportunities and create programs to help public power systems grow utility revenues, lower rates, and reduce emissions.”
“Smart growth is the key to strategic electrification success for public power utilities,” said Pasi Miettinen, Chief Executive Officer for Sagewell. “Our role is to help public power take advantage of new opportunities to grow electric sales while meeting customer demand for EV charging, high-efficiency heat pumps and other electrification solutions.”
About Hometown Connections, Inc.
Hometown Connections, Inc. is a national, non-profit utility services organization specializing in the unique challenges facing community-owned utilities. For more than 20 years, our expert team has helped over 900 utilities to modernize their processes and systems. Hometown Connections works with utilities of all sizes, facilitating access to technology and services from industry-leading companies. Hometown offers solutions to develop each area of the utility business: operations, cybersecurity, business strategy, customer care, finance, and workforce. Visit www.hometownconnections.com.
About Sagewell
Sagewell’s data-driven solutions enable utility customers and partner communities to combine the environmental benefits of strategic electrification with favorable economics that reduce electric rates. In 2018, the American Public Power Association recognized Sagewell’s Bring Your Own Charger® (BYOC) EV load management program with its Energy Innovator of the Year award. The Northeast Public Power Association named Sagewell its 2017 Affiliate Member of the year. Previously, The Boston Globe named Sagewell an energy industry Game Changer company. Sagewell serves utilities that have customers ranging from thousands of customers to several million. www.sagewell.com
For More Information
Gary Smith
Director of Programs
Sagewell, Inc.
gary.smith@sagewell.com
617-963-8141 main office
781-303-4994 direct line
Al Weber
Vice President, Business Planning
Hometown Connections, Inc.
aweber@hometownconnections.com
919-810-5070 mobile and office
… more…Quest Controls Announces that the RSC 1000 HVAC Control System has Successfully been Modeled into MegaSys Telenium Software Press Release - Date: August 26, 2019 |
Contact: Harper Anderton Phone: (617) 901-0955
Director Sales & Marketing, Utilities
handerton@questcontrols.com Quest Controls, Inc.
208 9th Street Drive West
Palmetto, Florida 34221
Palmetto, Florida - Quest Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce that MegaSys® Telenium® users can now add the Quest RSC 1000™ driver to their instance of the software to monitor alarms, input status and trending and make setpoin
t changes. The RSC 1000 is the most sophisticated HVAC control system available today and uses Quest’s patented adaptive economizer control algorithm to optimize the amount of time free cooling can be used thereby reducing the run time required for air conditioning compressors. This increases the effective life span of the HVAC system and reduces energy costs.
The RSC 1000 communicates with Telenium using SNMPv3 and includes a built-in secure web server that uses HTTPS for communications. “Bringing together the premier facilities controller and the premier master network management platform for utilities will allow utilities to deploy the most advanced facilities control” said Ed Goggin, Quest Controls President & CEO.
The RSC 1000’s advanced architecture provides secure Ethernet communications with support for IPv6, IPv4, HTTP, HTTPS, RADIUS Password Authentication, SNMP v1, v2c and v3 and SMTP (Email) as well as Modbus RTU Communications to Modbus RTU enabled equipment such as KW meters, generators and fuel level sensors. RSC also employs a color touch screen with similar graphics to the web server so onsite technicians can easily trouble shoot issues with HVAC or additional devices being monitored at the facility.
“MegaSys is pleased to have had the opportunity to work with Quest Controls and to add the RSC 1000 into our extensive suite of supported devices. The RSC 1000 sets a new level for advanced sensor management and we are very excited to be part of the overall solution for our existing and new customers.” said Dave Woronuk, President & CEO of MegaSys.
MegaSys is the provider of Telenium®, Network Management Software for telecommunications, energy, emergency services and government markets. We focus exclusively on telecom network management and provisioning, enabling us to produce powerful Network Management Software that provides complete EML/NML/SML functionality - including full FCAPS capability, auto-population of network architecture and circuit management, high throughput alarm processing and network element backup - integrated in an intelligent, high performance database.
Quest Controls, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a complete family of remote surveillance products that provide monitoring, control, and energy management solutions for the power utility, telecommunications, cable, and commercial industries. The TELSEC®, OspreyFMS® OspreyDCM™ and BACnet product and server software families provide alarm performance, monitoring, control, energy savings, and test of a facility’s critical operating environment and equipment to maintain and ensure each facility’s smooth and continuous operation. Quest Controls, Inc. also provides installation services as well as 24/7 monitoring and service contracts.
For more information on Quest Controls’ products, call (941) 729-4799 or visit us at www.questcontrols.com.… more…