Dive Summary:
- Energate and General Electric on Tuesday announced a new agreement that will see GE's PoweOn platform and demand response software used with Energate's hardware technology.
- Energate claims to have its platform about 100,000 homes at present, many of which are served by Oklahoma Gas & Electric.
- Energate CEO Niraj Bhargava mentioned that the software integration has been tested, though no utility customers have been announced.
From the article:
"... Although Energate’s focus is two-way demand response over AMI networks or broadband, it can also deliver one-way load control for utilities that don’t want two-way programs. But increasingly, customer engagement is being seen as an integral part of successful demand response. ..."
