CURRENT Announces Smart Grid Initiatives in the UK
CURRENT Announces Market Expansion and Smart Grid Deployment Initiatives in the United Kingdom 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
CURRENT Selected by Pepco for Grid Modernization Project
CURRENT Selected by Pepco for Distribution Grid Modernization Project Comprehensive Line of Intelligent Distribution Sensors Now Available in North America DISTRIBUTECH, SAN ANTONIO, TX, January 23, 2012 — CURRENT, a leading global innovator of utility grid infrastructure and software solutions, today announced that Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) has selected CURRENT’s new underground residential development (URD) fault detection and grid monitoring system for a distribution grid reliability and modernization project in the Washington, DC area. Pepco is installing CURRENT’s secure URD transformer and feeder sensors and is using the system to detect and communicate the location of underground cable faults
CURRENT to Provide IBERDROLA with Advanced Metering
CURRENT to Provide IBERDROLA with Advanced Metering, Supervision, and Communications Solutions Supporting Spain’s Largest Smart Grid Initiative MADRID, January 20, 2012 – CURRENT, a leading global innovator of utility grid infrastructure and software solutions, today announced that IBERDROLA selected the company to provide advanced metering, transformer supervision, and network communications solutions for wide-scale deployment in Spain in 2012. The installation by IBERDROLA, which is one of the largest utilities in the world, is part of a significant expansion of their industry benchmark STAR Project (Network Remote Management and Automation Systems) launched in Castellón, Spain in 2010. IBERDROLA is installing CURRENT’s
CURRENT Launches IDCs for European Smart Metering Market
Combines Metering and Sensing in Single Intelligent Device Metering, Billing/CRM Europe, Amsterdam, October 4, 2011 – CURRENT, a leading global innovator of core smart grid infrastructure and software solutions that enables Connected Intelligence™ for utilities, today announced the introduction of its Intelligent Data Concentrator (IDC) product which supports power-line carrier (PLC) based smart meter data collection combined with integrated low-voltage supervisory and sensing functions. The IDC also supports the optional integration of 3G / GPRS cellular backhaul which provides a single box solution for metering, sensing, and backhaul needs. CURRENT’s IDC products use meter data and various low-voltage measurements to
CURRENT Receives New Funding, Expands in Europe and Asia
CURRENT Receives New Funding, Expands in Europe and Asia New Management Team Will Support Accelerated Growth Germantown, Md., September 13, 2011 – CURRENT, a leading global innovator of core smart grid infrastructure and software solutions, announced today that the company has received funding of $13 million and appointed new members of its management team. CURRENT will use the funding to accelerate its market growth and product development of solutions that enable advanced metering, grid reliability, and transformer station communications. The investment will also enable CURRENT to continue expanding in the European and Asia Pacific markets where CURRENT has recently announced customer wins at Iberdrola (Spain) and Electrica
AT&T and CURRENT Announce Smart Grid Agreement
AT&T ANNOUNCES SMART GRID AGREEMENT WITH CURRENT GROUP TO DELIVER GRID OPTIMIZATION SOLUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN UTILITIES Combined with AT&T’s Mobile Broadband Network, CURRENT Smart Grid®Solutions will Help Utilities Improve Grid Performance and Better Manage Assets DALLAS, June 28, 2010 — AT&T* today announced it is extending its reach with smart grid solutions for utilities throughout the United States with a new agreement with CURRENT Group, a leading provider of distribution Smart Grid solutions. AT&T will offer CURRENT Smart Grid ®Distribution Solutions, which help utilities increase grid efficiency and system capacity by managing demand dynamically and reducing power delivery losses.
Novabase and CURRENT Announce Strategic Partnership
Portugal’s Leading Company in IT Business Solutions Novabase and Distribution Grid Company CURRENT Group Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Grid Efficiency and Optimization Solutions to the Portuguese Market Partnership Delivers end-to-end Utility Distribution Smart Grid Solutions to Portugal’s Utility Market by combining CURRENT’s industry leading Smart Transformer Station portfolio that encompasses solutions for communications, advanced sensing and meter collection with Novabase’s Deep Professional Consulting and System Integration Expertise. LISBOA, PORTUGAL and ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Electric utilities in Portugal can now more quickly adopt field proven Utility Distribution Smart Grid capabilities through Novabase, the leading Portuguese company in IT business solutions
Iberdrola Selects CURRENT for Smart Grid Deployment
The World’s Fourth Largest Utility Iberdrola Selects Distribution Smart Grid Provider CURRENT Group for Industry’s First Open and Interoperable Smart Grid Deployment Madrid, Spain, (April 27, 2010) – CURRENT Group, LLC, a leading provider of Smart Grid solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Iberdrola, one of the four largest utilities in the world, to provide smart metering communications, advanced sensing and network management solutions as part of their first phase deployment of Smart Grid solutions in Castellon, Spain. The Iberdrola deployment represents the first and largest deployment of smart metering technologies that demonstrate comprehensive end-to-end interoperability using
CURRENT and Verizon Announce Joint Smart Grid Offering
CURRENT Group and Verizon Announce Joint Smart Grid Offering to Help Improve Efficiency and Reliability of the Electric Distribution Grid Offering Combines CURRENT’s Intelligent Sensors and Analytic Software with Verizon’s Advanced IT, Security, Network and Communications Solutions, and Professional Consulting Services BASKING RIDGE, NJ and GERMANTOWN, MD – Electric utilities can more quickly adopt smart grid capabilities by combining intelligent distributed sensing from CURRENT Group with an Internet Protocol-based solution from Verizon. Under a new agreement, the two companies are enabling real-time power consumption and analysis communications between electric companies and sensors deployed on their networks. The two companies will leverage