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Elster is the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of high accuracy, high quality, integrated metering solutions to the gas, electricity, and water industries. Elster helps utilities improve revenue cycle services, delivery reliability, customer service, and workforce utilization as well as implement demand response and conservation programs. Elster offers cost-effective solutions including smart meters, communication solutions, and metering automation systems for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Core to Elster solutions are the use of intelligent mobile and fixed network communications.
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Trilliant is an industry-leading provider of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response, and grid management solutions in addition to installation, program management and meter revenue cycle services. With more than 20 years experience delivering meter communications solutions, the company is focused on enabling choice for utilities from meter, network and IT infrastructures to full or hybrid outsource models involving metering services, submetering, AMI system management and data management services. Trilliant has more than 100 utility customers including Duke Energy, E.ON US (Louisville Gas & Electric), Hydro One, Toronto Hydro Electric System Ltd. and Union Gas. For more information,
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Enspiria Solutions has real-world experience, in-depth insights and practical experience in AMI, MDMS, DR and Smart Grid solutions. More than 25 utilities have turned to the Enspiria team for help in defining and implementing smart metering and smart grid strategies – strategies impacting over 45 million meters across North America.
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The Illinois Energy Association represents the state's investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities in the public policy arena. The Energy Association is made up of six member companies who provide utility service for millions of Illinois citizens. The organization is active in governmental affairs, industry relations and public relations.
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The Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA) is a collaborative network advancing energy efficiency in the Midwest to support sustainable economic development and environmental preservation. MEEA is a leader and central source for information in raising and sustaining the level of energy efficiency in the Midwest by fostering market penetration of existing energy efficient technologies and promoting new technologies, processes and best practices. MEEA raises awareness and strengthens policy across the Midwest. The organization brings together a respected network of members, partners, board and staff, and inspires others to create new technologies, new products and new ways of thinking when it comes to energy efficiency.
www.mwalliance.org |
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The purpose of the Alliance, a not-for-profit organization, is as follows:
"Create a community of expertise on demand response and its role in creating efficient electricity markets. Through this community, the Alliance will bring forward useful information on price responsive loads, market structures and market rules. This will include information on market participants roles, customer needs and actions, enabling technologies, and specific programs as appropriate."
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The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) is an International not-for-profit trade association working to promote global standards and regulations in the fast developing Powerline communications market. The UPA aims to catalyze the growth of Powerline technology by delivering UPA plug tested and certified products that comply with these specified standards and regulations. All products and applications designed around UPA guidelines will communicate, from simple coexistence to full interoperability. The UPA provides all Powerline players the opportunity to respond to key customer expectations with open standards, based on interoperability, security and coexistence and supported by exclusive and independent certifications, the only global guarantee of quality and confidence for high-speed power line technology available today.
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Utilimetrics is a nonprofit association providing utilities information about innovative technologies that lead to improved operations, customer service and resource utilization. Its membership represents more than 800 international utilities and corporations in gas, water and electric industries. Utilimetrics members develop and implement automated resource-management technologies as well as participate in standardization and regulatory activities.
www.utilimetrics.org. |
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