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n Building and Facility Energy Management Systems (BEMS, FEMS) n Distributed generation from renewable sources n Home Energy Management Systems n Street lighting (HEMS) n Electric vehicles (PEHVs) Colorado Springs (USA) Colorado Springs Utilities is a community-owned utility. An advanced Load Management program was developed to reduce load during peak power consumption and to protect transformers and other Energie Baden-Württemberg (Germany) distribution equipment. 1,900 smart thermostats TM equipped with Gridstream communications tech- Utility Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is one nology and software applications enable load of the largest energy supply companies in Europe shedding on specific feeder circuits. During peak piloting a state-of-the-art Smart Metering system that power events, the software can determine the meets Germany’s high data protection and end-con- number of customer thermostats to control. If a sumer security requirements. Landis+Gyr provided customer opts out of a control period, the software its newly developed end-to-end security system, automatically adjusts to find replacement load a “gateway,” fulfilling the guidelines of the German curtailment to ensure load shedding requirements are Federal Office for Information Security. The new met. Using this technology, the utility expects to save system enables utilities to better balance decentral- more than USD 117 million through the year 2025. ized energy generation and demand, provides more transparency with regard to energy consumption, and tests the suitability of Smart Metering for the mass market, as well as its compatibility potential. 33 |