Dive Summary:
- Dominion Voltage Inc. has been awarded a patent for its new EDGE technology, which will allow utilities with advanced metering infrastructure to optimize their grids.
- The EDGE platform is designed to help utilities achieve savings by conserving voltage and reducing costs; the technology also allow utilities to deliver performance requirements to its customers while still saving money.
- The technology includes three distinct phases: the EDGE planner, the EDGE Manager, and the EDGE Validator.
From the article:
DVI’s EDGE platform is designed to enable utilities to realize savings through voltage conservation by reducing their fuel and purchased power costs. EDGE PLANNER works with existing system planning tools and processes to make the conservation voltage reduction business case circuit by circuit. EDGE MANAGER has been designed to integrate into existing distribution control systems, and EDGE VALIDATOR calculates actual savings from EDGE or other demand-side programs. ...