The Software Engineer will work closely with Product Managers, other Engineers and Testers to conceive, design, prototype, build and deliver a Web 2.0 user interface for CURRENT’s OpenGrid platform.  This candidate is expected to prototype and builds web-based applications, focusing on aesthetics, ease of use and automated GUI testing.  Candidate must also have a good understanding of JAVA/J2EE based programming.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1+ years JAVA programming experience.
• Distributed component technologies (EJB, application servers).
• Database design and development and data modeling (SQL, XML).
• Fundamentals of Computer Science: Object Oriented Design and design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• 1+ years Experience with designing and building complex & scalable web-based GUIs using HTML/JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX/CSS.
• 1+ years experience with JavaScript libraries (Dojo, JQuery).
• Attentions to detail and focus on quality of deliverables are a must.
• Ability to work independently, self-manages, and mentors others.
• Understanding of Linux and TCP/IP networking (a plus).
• University/College degree in Computer Science

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Evaluate and introduce technical standards and 3rd party components (open source & commercial)
• Participate in technical design/code and usability reviews.
• Participate in testing.

Zamudio, 6 March 2013. Ormazabal continues to invest in order to consolidate its position in the Smart Grid sector. The latest initiative in this regard has been the recent acquisition of the American company CURRENT Group, LLC, which in recent years has become a benchmark at an international level in Smart Grid solutions.

This technology-based company, located outside Washington, DC, provides Ormazabal with three lines of business that are key parts of future electrical networks: smart metering solutions, low and medium voltage network monitoring and analysis systems, and products for communications networks.

CURRENT is a founding member of the PRIME (PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution) Alliance, promoted by world class companies in the electrical sector. This international initiative promotes an open, interoperable communications standard technology that enables telemetering equipment and services to be shared in all networks in the world, promoting greater efficiency and facilitating the transition from traditional networks to smart grids. This fact influenced Ormazabal’s decision to acquire this American company.

The product and service lines of both companies are complementary and will enable Ormazabal to offer complete monitoring, automation and communications solutions for the transformer substations in electrical networks. This acquisition will facilitate the development of solutions that combine the capabilities of both companies, significantly boosting the automation and transformer substation business, as well as the installation of more advanced medium voltage equipment. For its part, the extensive international organization of Ormazabal will promote the introduction of CURRENT® solutions in countries where Ormazabal has a strong sales network, such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom, China and Latin America.

Ormazabal already has consolidated experience in the field of smart grids, providing proprietary monitoring and automation solutions for the electrical network. The acquisition of CURRENT allows Ormazabal to access latest generation technology, while still maintaining its strategy of in-house development of new solutions based on its Research and Technology Centre.

International presence of Ormazabal

With this acquisition, Ormazabal reinforces its international expansion, which has gained increasing importance in recent years. In fact, Ormazabal has an important international presence in the world, with facilities in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, and is present in more than 50 countries through subsidiaries and distributors.

About Ormazabal.

Ormazabal, a Velatia company, is a leading international supplier of equipment and services for medium voltage electricity distribution networks. Ormazabal currently employs a workforce of over 1,400 persons and generates annual turnover in excess of 365 million euros.

Ormazabal’s main activity is the manufacture and installation of electrical capital equipment, such as transformer substations and primary and secondary distribution cubicles. All these products are within the scope of medium voltage electricity distribution networks.

www.ormazabal.com

www.currentgrid.com

“Utilities across the world are looking for ways to leverage their smart metering deployments to create significant reliability and efficiency improvements within their distribution networks,” said Tom Willie, CEO of CURRENT.  “Our next-generation IDC solutions allow utilities to deploy smart metering infrastructure while gaining the added benefit of integrated sensing and control functionality.”

CURRENT’s next-generation IDCs combine PRIME-based powerline communications and data concentrator functionality with enhanced supervision and energy balancing, which enables recording harmonic distortions, detecting neutral current, performing sequence decomposition and instrumenting sags and swells.  In addition, integrated support for a plugin digital I/O module allows the IDC to transform from a typical data concentrator into a digital control unit.

CURRENT will be exhibiting at the Metering Billing/CRM (Booth #D62) in Amsterdam, October 9-11, 2012, and the European Utility Telecom Conference in Warsaw, October 24-26, 2012. In addition we are participating at the Low Carbon Network Fund event of the Energy Networks Association, October 25-26 in Cardiff, Wales.

About CURRENT

CURRENT provides core infrastructure smart grid technologies, including hardware and software solutions that enable Connected Intelligence® to distribution utilities and support applications such as advanced metering, reliability event detection, and grid communications.  With over a decade of demonstrated innovation, CURRENT’s products are a foundational component of some of the most advanced smart grid deployments in the world.  CURRENT is a founding member of the PRIME Alliance (www.prime-alliance.org), an industry alliance, focused on defining, implementing, and deploying a multi-vendor, open, and fully interoperable PLC-based standard.

CURRENT has operations and deployments around the world including in the United States, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Australia, and China.  For more information about CURRENT, please go to www.currentgrid.com.

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UK Power Networks and Western Power Distribution (WPD), both distribution network operators, have selected Current’s Connected Intelligence power quality analytic sensors for use in a smart grid pilot initiative in the United Kingdom.

The projects will use smart analytics to better understand the implications of the growing use of low carbon technologies on network planning. These projects will also help gain a better understanding of user demand, manage network constraints, and illustrate the benefits of better communications between network operators and commercial customers.

Read the full article: Fierce Smart Grid

London, May 7, 2012 — UK Power Networks and Western Power Distribution selected Current’s Connected Intelligence power quality analytic sensors for a pilot initiative in the U.K.

Current’s solutions are being tested as part of the LV sensor evaluation project, which is being funded by the Office of Gas and Electricity Market’s Low Carbon Networks Fund in support of Great Britain’s transition to a low carbon economy.

Read the full article: Electric Light & Power

LONDON, 7 May 2012 – CURRENT, a leading global innovator of utility grid infrastructure and software solutions, today announced that UK Power Networks and Western Power Distribution (WPD) have selected the company’s Connected Intelligence^® power quality analytic sensors for a pilot initiative in the United Kingdom. CURRENT’s solutions are being trialled as part of the LV sensor evaluation project, which is being funded by the Office of Gas and Electricity Market’s (Ofgem) Low Carbon Networks Fund (LCNF) in support of Great Britain’s transition to a low carbon economy. This is one project of many, which distribution network operators such as UK Power Networks and WPD are running as part of the fund.

Ofgem has allocated up to £500M over five years to fund projects to prepare electricity networks for a low carbon future. The projects at UK Power Networks and WPD will use “smart analytics” to gather and analyse electrical grid information with the aim of better understanding the implications of the growing use of low carbon technologies on network planning. These projects also involve gaining a better understanding of user demand, managing network constraints, and illustrating the benefits of better communications between network operators and commercial customers.

CURRENT’s industry leading Connected Intelligence product portfolio, which encompasses advanced sensing, event management, and communications solutions, is an integral component of the projects at both utilities. The products combine a power quality analytic engine with sensors capable of being installed on live networks providing comprehensive load profiling, power quality analysis, asset monitoring, and event detection at the distribution transformer station. In addition, CURRENT’s OpenGrid^® enterprise software will be used for grid and network monitoring.

“CURRENT is committed to providing innovative sensing and event management solutions to distribution network operators looking to increase reliability, integrate renewables, and make strides toward a lower carbon network,” said CURRENT CEO and President Tom Willie. “We are extremely excited that our solutions are being embraced by two of the industry leading DNOs in theUKmarket for projects which are awarded based on innovation and potential positive impact on the environment.”

CURRENT will be exhibiting its distribution and power quality sensors at IEEE PES T&D 2012 (booth #4384) inOrlando,Florida, May 8-10.

About CURRENT

CURRENT provides leading distribution automation solutions, including core infrastructure and software products that enable Connected Intelligence for utilities around the world. CURRENT provides applications that support utilities looking to implement smart metering, improve reliability, and enable grid communication. With over a decade of demonstrated innovation, CURRENT’s products are a foundational component of some of the most advanced grid modernization deployments in the world. CURRENT has been recognized by Platt’s Award of Excellence, the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award, and GoingGreen’s Top 50 Cleantech companies.

CURRENT has operations around the world including the United States, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Turkey, Romania, CzechRepublic, United Kingdom, Australia, and China.  For more information about CURRENT, please go to www.currentgrid.com.

About UK Power Networks

UK Power Networks distributes power to a quarter ofBritain’s population through its electricity networks servingLondon, the South East and the East of England. The company’s 5,000 employees are dedicated to delivering a safe, secure electricity supply to about eight million homes and businesses via its networks of substations, overhead lines and underground cables.

UK Power Networks will be distributing the electricity at many venues for this year’s international sporting events. We are also undertaking trials to ensure our electricity networks support the transition to a low carbon future.

Customers pay their bills to supply companies but UK Power Networks delivers the power across our three areas. The industry regulator Ofgem sets an allowed revenue to distribution companies so that they can maintain safe and reliable electricity supplies. If customers are unfortunate enough to be affected by a power cut or have another issue with the electricity supply to their property, they should contact UK Power Networks. www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk

About Western Power Distribution

Western Power Distribution (WPD) is the distribution network operator for the Midlands, South West England and South Wales, and is responsible for delivering electricity to approximately 7.7 million customers in the UK.

WPD is not an electricity supply company and does not bill customers in theUK. Its responsibility is to distribute electricity from the point of generation to homes and businesses.

WPD is owned by Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL). PPL controls or owns about 19,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets, and delivers electricity and natural gas to about 10 million customers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

 For further information about the low carbon projects that WPD are involved in, please visit www.westernpowerinnovation.co.uk.

Iberdrola announced the next phase of its smart grid metering project in Spain on Friday. The energy giant will install one million smart meters after its initial pilot that began in 2010.

The contract will not go to one meter maker; instead, it will be split among seven companies: ZIV, Landis+Gyr, Sagemcom, Sogecam, Orbis, Elster and General Electric. The total contract is worth €300 million ($395 million).

Read the full article: Greentech Media

Greentech Media has been tracking the rise of distribution automation as the next big sector for utility smart grid investment — and the next big sector for industry consolidation.

GTM Research predicts the U.S. market for distribution automation — the sensors, controls, and centralized or distributed intelligence needed to manage distribution grids — will grow to $3 billion by 2015, as stimulus-funded projects start to prove their cost-benefit ratios to utility regulators.

Read the full article: Greentech Media

Utilities facing the challenges of an aging/retiring workforce and an aging infrastructure can find themselves dealing with problematic feeders that require too much time and attention. With launch of its Intelligent Distribution Sensor (IDS) product line, CURRENT is offering a solution – and Pepco is taking them up on it with a rollout planned for the Washington, D.C. area.

Read the full article: Smart Grid News

Spain’s Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest utilities, has selected CURRENT to provide advanced metering, transformer supervision and network communications for a wide-scale deployment there this year.

Read the full article: Smart Grid News