Page 4 - Public Report: Landis+Gyr’s Automated Network Management solution validation at TECNALIA’s smart grid competence center

Landis+Gyr ANM solution validation report 1.1 About TECNALIA TECNALIA is the first applied research center in Spain and one of the most prominent labs in Europe with around 1,500 employees, turnover of €110 million and over 4,000 clients participating in various European smart grid projects. The mission of TECNALIA is to transform knowledge into GDP, improving people’s quality of life by generating business opportunities for companies. To accomplish this, TECNALIA is organized in seven interconnected divisions by sector: Energy and Environment, Sustainable Construction, Industry and Transport, ICT – European Software, Innovation Strategies, Health, and Technological Services. TECNALIA’s offer includes a range of activities: technological services, testing and certification, R&D&I projects, the transfer of industrial property, business promotion, business diversification, innovation management and foreign support. The Smart Grid Area, included in the Energy and Environment Division, generates and develops business opportunities for utilities and their equipment and service providers by designing and developing radical solutions for the progressive transition from the current electrical systems to the 2050 smart power systems, including Advanced power system architectures: microgrids for buildings and districts; Demand-side management and demand response; Energy management and optimization in buildings; Integration of distributed energy resources into the network; New power converters for grid connection; Communication for smart grid and smart metering applications; Electric mobility: infrastructure, grid integration and V2G applications; Business model analysis and development. With the “ingrid” lab, which is a new, experimental infrastructure for smart grids and the integration of renewable energy, TECNALIA provides not only expertise, but also infrastructure for the qualification of smart grid solutions in Europe. Following the deployment of the new requirements of the electrical grid, TECNALIA has strengthened its activities in the functional and interoperability assessment of products for the smart grid (e.g. smart meters), conformity assessment of power electronics devices (e.g. PV inverters) and the commissioning of tests for HV cables. As a singular station, TECNALIA operates the most highly rated and most extensive independent power test facility in the southwest of Europe and has sufficient capability to perform short-circuit and high-current testing on a wide variety of high-voltage and low-voltage electrical equipment. 1.2 About Landis+Gyr Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management products tailored to energy company needs and unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. Landis+Gyr an independent growth platform of the Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502) and 40% owned by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, operates in 30 countries across five continents, and employs 5,500 people. With the ambition to contribute to tomorrow’s Smart Communities by offering the technology for a secure and efficient energy infrastructure, a Team of smart metering solution experts from Landis+Gyr and smart grid solution specialists from Toshiba came together in a Smart Grid Solution Center to design innovative smart grid applications that will provide flexibility in renewables integration and intelligent balancing of energy supply and demand. The first of such applications has now been supplied to TECNALIA for technical validation. 4