2009 News Archive

Lafayette, Indiana – December 3, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in next-generation energy management solutions, marked an important milestone this week with the shipment of its 2 millionth FOCUS® AX meter. The FOCUS AX combines advanced functionality and value in a platform that supports multiple communication option, making it the leading meter in utility advanced metering deployments.

ATLANTA, GA. – Oct. 29, 2009 – Landis+Gyr today announced the commercial availability of its next generation ecoMeter™ energy monitor for the North American market. The ecoMeter P250 is a pocket-sized display that connects wirelessly to the consumer’s electric meter to continuously report energy use and cost.

New York, NY – Tuesday, October 27, 2009– Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management offering utilities next generation smart grid solutions, today welcomed the announcement by President Barack Obama identifying the first of the stimulus fund awards to create jobs and modernize the U.S. electricity grid under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

ATLANTA, GA. – Oct. 22, 2009 – More than 20 electric utilities have signed agreements in 2009 to deploy Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream™ PLC (TS2) system for advanced metering. Together, these agreements represent nearly 400,000 advanced meters.

300,000 Meters Installed in North Texas; Call for Other Industry Participants to Take Action

Reynosa, Mexico – September 16, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management offering utilities next generation smart grid solutions, announced today that its manufacturing plant in Reynosa, Mexico has been recognized for excellence by IndustryWeek magazine.

ATLANTA, GA. – Sept. 11, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has launched a program to test interoperability between home area network devices and the Gridstream™ advanced metering solution.

ATLANTA, GA. – Aug. 21, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has released an outage notification update to system software for Gridstream™ PLC advanced metering systems that improves accuracy and adds features to enhance the outage management capabilities of the system.

San Jose, CA and Zug, Switzerland – July 31, 2009 – Cisco and Landis+Gyr today announced that they will work together on a holistic approach to smart grid communications infrastructure that is expected to  help utility companies and their customers manage energy better. The collaboration between Cisco and Landis+Gyr is expected to accelerate the delivery of standards-based solutions for the energy industry and facilitate the integration of existing capabilities with renewable power sources, plug-in vehicles and distribution automation functionality.

ATLANTA, GA. – July 28, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has signed an agreement with Exceleron Software that allows it to market the proven Prepaid Account Management System (PAMS) directly to its advanced metering customers.

New York, NY – July 16, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management offering utilities next generation smart grid solutions, today announced a contract with Sacramento Municipal Utility District(SMUD) to supply all of the planned 620,000 smart meters for use in the deployment of SMUDs advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).

NEW YORK and DALLAS -- June 23, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in next generation energy management solutions, and Oncor, the owner and operator of the largest distribution and transmission system in Texas, today announced a milestone in its advanced meter system rollout with the deployment of nearly 250,000 smart meters. By year-end, Oncor anticipates nearly 700,000 advanced meters and their communications systems to be in place.

Lafayette, Indiana – June 8, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has announced the commercial availability of the FOCUS™ AX Polyphase, an active energy polyphase meter that combines advanced functionality and value in the popular AX meter platform.

Deployment Empowers Consumers to Improve Energy Efficiency, Reduce Costs

Atlanta, GA – May 14, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has released an industry-first software upgrade that provides a secure interface for personal energy management devices deployed as part of a Gridstream™ RF smart grid network, empowering utility customers with real-time access to energyinformation and the ability to manage energy usage.
 

Chicago, IL – May 5, 2009 – SCADA Solutions, Inc. (SSI) and Landis+Gyr announced a strategic distribution partnership to provide a data communication solution for renewable energy through a SCADA application for wind turbine generators.

Atlanta, GA. – March 31, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, which began deploying a Gridstream™ two-way smart grid communications network at Austin Energy in 2008, announced it is on schedule to complete the 280,000-meter project in August 2009.

New York, NY – March 26, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management offering utilities next generation smart grid solutions, today announced a contract with Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) to supply the major portion of the smart meters for use in the deployment of PHI’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in the state of Delaware, with flexibility to expand usage of the smart meters in other areas of PHI’s service territory. 

Atlanta, GA – February 18, 2009 – FortisAlberta has entered the second phase of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment with Landis+Gyr, and is scheduled to deploy approximately 370,000 advanced metering endpoints over the next two years.

Deployment will empower consumers to cut energy bills, greenhouse emissions

Zug, Switzerland – February 5, 2009 – A powerful European Consortium of leading meter manufacturers, utilities and technology providers came together for the first time this week in Madrid, Spain, to kick start the Open and Public Extended Network (OPEN) meter project, set to define and develop open standard telecommunication protocols and data formats for smart metering. 

ATLANTA, Ga– February 3, 2009 – Commonwealth Edison received industry recognition at the DistribuTECH 2009 Conference and Exhibition in San Diego for a real-time fault indicator project that utilizes a Landis+Gyr Gridstream-ready distribution automation solution.

Lafayette, IN – February 2, 2009 – Landis+Gyr has announced the commercial release of the MAXsys Elite short switchboard style precision electric grid meter. This meter incorporates advanced power quality features in a convenient FT-21 flush mount case.

Zug, Switzerland and New York, NY – January 29, 2009 – Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy measurement and management offerings for utilities, today announced it has created a solution brand, Gridstream, for global use in state of the art smart metering and communications system deployments.

ATLANTA, Ga. – January 28, 2009 – Landis+Gyr and Corporate Systems Engineering announced the commercial availability of a two-way load control device designed for Landis+Gyr smart grid networks.