BPL Global (BPLG), a smart grid technology company, announced its partnership with Delta Dore, Edelia, Saft, Schneider Electric, Tenesol and Electricite de France (EDF) to deploy a 30.2 million euro smart grid project on the islands of Corsica, Guadeloupe and La Reunion.
The project, called Millener, is expected to integrate management of a thousand diverse distributed energy resources at the edge of the distribution grid.
BPLG's two important technologies including Power SG enterprise class software platform and Power SG iDER solution will be used as the centralized control system. It will integrate management of grid and customer energy assets including customer load, energy storage and renewables.
“Deployment and integrated management of solar generation, battery storage and customer load are a vital part of our smart grid strategy,” said Jean-Michel Deveza, director of the Smart Grids program, EDF's Insular Power Systems Division. “This project is designed to better integrate distributed renewable energy, improve the stability of power systems and identify sustainable economic models.”
BPLG will deploy direct load controllers for energy efficient management of residential air conditioning and heating loads.
“Our significant investment in France and our partnership in the Millener project are critical to furthering French and American technologies in our projects worldwide,” said Pete Londa, CEO, BPLG, in a statement. “BPLG plays a vital role in globalizing the company's smart grid solutions with local investments in people, products and smart grid technology.”
BPLG's Power SG iDER solution is being deployed with FirstEnergy at their Jersey Central Power & Light and Metropolitan Edison operating companies. The FirstEnergy and EDF contracts demonstrate the value of BPLG's technology in integrated management of distributed energy resources through deployments in the US and Europe with two major utilities.
Recently, BPLG announced it joined as a founding member of the Smart Energy Demand Coalition (SEDC). SEDC, a newly formed European industry group, is representing the entire energy value chain and all segments of the electricity industry.
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