Polska Grupa Energetyczna, one of the largest company in the energy and power sector in Poland, has reportedly selected PCN Technology Inc. for its smart grid pilot launch in Warsaw.

 

PCN officials said that the company will play a critical role in transforming the utility’s system into a totally integrated infrastructure with smart meters and underlying data and energy networks to deliver smart grid service benefits to PGE customers.

 

“PCN is very pleased about this latest engagement, and honored to be selected following such a rigorous competitive examination,” said Venkat Shastri, CEO of PCN, in a statement.

 

Shastri said that this will mean a new opportunity to demonstrate how the company capitalizes on existing infrastructure and the adaptive channeling technology including its low latency to more quickly deliver the promise of the smart grid.

 

Company officials said that key to the performance of the company’s medium band width power line communication system is its novel ability to incorporate legacy proprietary architectures with new, secure open standard solutions. Officials said that this results in an integrated, IP enabled communications and energy management infrastructure.

 

The PCN / PGE pilot project upon completion includes a planned first roll out of approximately 800,000 smart meters for customers around Warsaw.  Nearly 5 million customers in Poland call PGE their energy company.

 

PCN is a San Diego, Cali.-based power line and communication systems company that helps utilities, manufacturers, and other companies establish completely unified smart grids.

 

The company said that its Grid MicroCircuits technology readily converts existing non integrated networks dependent on various media “pipes” including wireless, into a single, seamless, interactive system, unaffected by interference and energy flow qualities.

 

The resulting architecture delivers a combination of energy and time-critical data applications including demand response capabilities at a level of integration not previously available, and a secure and powerful end to end communications network able to withstand even blackout events.