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Amperion and Exacter Partner to Develop Smart Grid Reliability Solution for Electric Utilities
Nov 05, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Amperion Inc. and Exacter, Inc., announced that they have formed a partnership to provide electric utilities with products and services that improve grid reliability and enable Smart Grid applications.
Thirty percent of the $150 billion that is lost annually to outages and poor power quality result from equipment failures. Amperion and Exacter are providing practical solutions that reduce SAIFI and maintain high reliability. The two companies will offer Exacter's grid-reliability detection services in combination with Amperion's Smart Grid communications network and monitoring services.
"Amperion's ability to monitor the distribution system and create problem alerts coupled with Exacter's ability to pinpoint exactly where the problem is provide utilities with a reliability tool they have never had before - a complete, real-time line quality assurance system," said John Lauletta, Exacter CEO.
"This is a synergistic partnership between two companies that are committed to delivering energy-efficiency solutions by optimizing the use of existing infrastructure and helping utilities with deployment of new Smart Grid applications," noted Nachum Sadan, Amperion CEO. "The combination of Amperion's communications network with Exacter's RFI-detection technology provides a continuous monitoring capability for early detection of failures. We've worked with Exacter's equipment in the field, and it is accurate and highly effective, which is why we put this solution together."
Amperion is a provider of hybrid BPL and wireless communications solutions for Smart Grid applications on medium-voltage distribution lines and high-voltage transmission lines.
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