NV Energy (NYSE: NVE) has selected the FlexNet system from Sensus for its advanced metering infrastructure initiative. The company expects to deploy as many as 1.3 million electric and 155,000 gas meters throughout the utility’s 54,500 square mile service territory beginning in 2010.
Robert Stewart, NV Energy’s Senior Vice President of Customer Relationships, said that the utility was looking for a high-bandwidth, multi-application solution that provided the right mix of operational benefits and advanced smart grid features. "We needed a proven, interoperable, and secure system that would provide a foundation for our long-term smart grid strategy and deliver near term operational savings," he said. He pointed to IP-based open systems and customer signaling as features of the Sensus FlexNet system that the utility will leverage to serve its primary goal of growing closer to the consumer.
"Sensus will support NV Energy’s demand response applications for shedding peak summer and winter electric loads and enable advanced applications for distribution automation and distributed generation," said Peter Mainz, President and CEO of Sensus.
NV Energy is also expected to use the FlexNet RF solution, which is a primary-use FCC licensed spectrum for the transmission of data.
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