北卡罗莱纳州-Raleigh的Consert公司 ，是智能电网技术供应商，今天宣布，联合能源公司（纽约证券交易所：学校发展津贴），通用电气能源金融服务，通用电气公司（纽约证券交易所：GE），美国高通公司（Nasdaq：QCOM），和Verizon的风险投资公司和私人投资者已投资1770万美元进行，战略营销，北美的销售和不断增强Consert先进的智能电网软件。
Consert的首席执行官Jack Robert说“Consert现在已经把消费者和小企业的利益联系到了一起”。这个小组的投资者提出的使我们创新出利用智能基础设施，即时通讯，和智能家用设备的综合绿色能源解决方案的愿景向前迈近一步。
通过提供公用设施经营的形式产生和分发储备衡量的和可核查的能力，Consert创建一个虚拟山顶植物平方米 ，可推迟或取代，而不是需要更多的常规发电厂的成本是70至80少百分之当前资本成本的一个新的燃气电厂峰值与营运成本，相当于少百分之60。
机对机通信功能和管理，通过Verizon Wireless的网络-全国最可靠的和最大的3G网络。 Consert能够报告实时，实证数据，实现综合消费对电网的解决方案，额外的智能功能，包括需求管理，先进计量基础设施和家庭区域网络。
“通过利用3G无线网络管理软件通讯和实时数据采集，Consert已经开发了智能网系统的有效解决方案” 高通公司经营企业主管Quinn Li说。“Consert的创新技术将使他们的成功地在变化的市场中找准位置。”
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raleigh-based Consert Inc., a smart grid technology provider, announced today that Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), Verizon Ventures and private investors have invested $17.7 million to fund strategic marketing, North American sales and ongoing enhancements of Consert’s advanced smart grid software.
“Consert has united the interests of utilities with those of consumers and small businesses”
“Consert has united the interests of utilities with those of consumers and small businesses,” said Consert CEO and President Jack Roberts. “This group of investors advances our vision of creating an integrated green energy solution with smart infrastructure, real-time communications, and intelligent in-home devices.”
Consert is currently providing municipal and cooperative electric utilities in North Carolina and Texas with a reliable, flexible and economical form of green operating reserves and energy management. Consert empowers consumers to manage their energy usage without compromising control, comfort or convenience through secure online energy profiles and home devices.
Wake Electric Membership Corporation in North Carolina just completed a pilot with Consert and now plans to extend the service to its member base. Its CEO, Jim Mangum, reported, “Our pilot participants realized energy savings ranging from 7 to 54 percent with an average of 17 percent and responded favorably about the ease-of-use of the Consert system.”
Consert gives energy conservation the attributes of generation and addresses utilities’ issues such as capacity, transmission, renewable portfolio standards and power variability from intermittent generation. Consert has the ability to solve energy issues quickly and cost-effectively and also offers advanced ancillary services such as wind and solar regulation.
“Demand side resources must be as reliable as generation assets to meet capacity obligations in today’s marketplace,” said Kathi Hyle, COO, Constellation Energy Resources and senior vice president, Constellation Energy. “The Consert solution meets this test and could benefit utilities, municipals and cooperatives nationwide.”
By providing measurable and verifiable capacity in the form of operating reserves for generating and distributing utilities, Consert creates a Virtual Peak PlantSM that can defer or supplant the need for additional conventional power plants at a cost that is 70 to 80 percent less than the current capital cost of a new gas-fired peak plant with an equivalent operating cost that is 60 percent less.
“Consert’s technology connects homes and small businesses through existing communications networks, enabling utilities to balance electricity demand, increase energy efficiency and drive consumer savings,” said Kevin Skillern, managing director of venture capital at GE Energy Financial Services. “It complements GE’s suite of economagination and smart grid investments and products, and provides opportunities for future collaboration.”
Machine-to-machine communications are enabled and managed through the Verizon Wireless’ network -- the nation’s most reliable and largest 3G network. Consert is able to report real-time, empirical data to achieve an integrated consumer-to-grid solution with additional smart grid features including demand management, advanced metering infrastructure and a Home Area Network.
“By utilizing the 3G wireless network to manage its software messaging and real-time data collection, Consert has developed a very compelling solution for smart grid applications,” said Quinn Li, director of Qualcomm Ventures. “Consert’s innovative technology positions them well to succeed in this growing market.”
Tom Darden, a renowned green investor and Consert director who focuses on financial, environmental and social returns, reflected that the Consert Solution is future-proofed for development in a world of carbon measurement.
“Consert enables distributing utilities to conserve, capture and monetize carbon savings,” Darden explained. “Its application meets most states’ Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards and it does not require any subsidy to make it economically viable. It also has the added operational benefits of providing regulation for wind power and real-time reporting of micro solar grids or other distributed generation resources to the utility.”
Designed without private protocols, Consert’s technology is built on IBM enterprise software and works with standards-based hardware, communications suppliers and solution integrators promoting free-market competition. Consert has filed hundreds of claims of intellectual property with the U.S. Patent Office as well as in numerous countries around the world.
