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ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 30, 2003 -- Connected Energy Corp. has won a competitively bid Phase 1 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The project is a 6-month effort to demonstrate web-based communication and control protocols that apply across multiple types of distributed energy equipment, including fuel cells and internal combustion engine generation systems.
Christopher Campbell, Connected Energy Corp. President and CEO said: "The technology to support this project, COMSYS™, originated in 1998 to solve the problem of monitoring, controlling, servicing, and billing of energy assets across a large number of unmanned sites located anywhere in the world.
This DOE project leverages existing COMSYS™ technology to demonstrate a secure communications and control system that exhibits:
* flexibility for servicing different distributed generation (DG) customer types and usage models.
* the capability of integration into operations at utilities, equipment end users, and Independent System Operators (ISO).
* a saturation deployment model with a central plant and significant DG penetration.
* a disbursed DG deployment model with scattered DG installations.
* responsiveness to a site's load demands and external signals from an ISO.
* support for wide variety of communication methods.
An impressive group of partners has come together to complete this project; the team includes:
* California Independent System Operator (CA ISO), that manages the long-distance, high-voltage power lines that deliver electricity throughout California and between neighboring states and Mexico.
* Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), a non-profit electric utility serving nearly 1.1 million Long Island, NY customers.
* New York Independent System Operator (NY ISO), that has operational control over most of the State's transmission facilities.
* New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a public benefit corporation that supports public benefit programs to improve statewide energy efficiency.
* Sandia National Lab, a DOE Laboratory which develops science-based technologies that support our national security, including energy infrastructure.
* Southern California Edison, one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., and the largest subsidiary of Edison International. On an average day, SCE provides power for 11 million individuals, 800 communities and cities, 5,000 large businesses, and 280,000 small businesses in Central and Southern California.
"New York State shares similar goals with the DOE. This is an important step towards integrating distributed energy resources to create a large, virtual power plant, which will ultimately increase the reliability, efficiency and security of the United State's energy infrastructure," said Peter R. Smith, Acting NYSERDA President.
Dan Zaweski, Director of Energy Efficiency and Distributed Generation Programs at LIPA stated, "We are interested in experimenting with how to most efficiently manage and operate our renewable and distributed energy portfolio of fuel cell, wind, solar and microturbine generators on Long Island. Many small generators operating at or near the site of consumption is a very different paradigm in scope and cost from large central generating plants."
"Edison is interested in evaluating a significant concentration of distributed generation on its electrical grid. This DOE project and Connected Energy tools can enable this necessary analysis," explains Stephanie Hamilton, Manager at Southern California Edison.
Connected Energy Corp. provides solutions to manage distributed utilities, including onsite power generation and cogeneration, as well as enabling a remote management system for other "utilities" including compressed air, steam and chilled water. Its customers are developing, testing, managing, owning, renting, servicing, and/or operating energy assets-and include Energy Service Providers, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Rental companies, Distributors, and the Government.
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