Smart Grid communications solutions provider Tantalus has collaborated with GE to unveil an enhanced functionality module for the GE Kv2c and Kv2c(+) polyphase meters for utilities’ commercial and industrial customers.
In a press release, Tantalus indicated that its latest product release extends the value utilities can gain from a smart grid implementation while offering C&I customers’ greater visibility and control of their energy consumption and associated costs.
“Our customer utilities’ C&I users demand the highest performance and cutting edge functionality,” Eric Murray president and chief executive officer at Tantalus said in a press release.
“As broader opportunities to monetize effective energy use present themselves to end user customers, we will continue to develop and deliver leading edge commercial and industrial electric metering solutions,” Murray added.
Four critical C&I areas addressed by the new product released from Tantalus include:
new, more extensive reporting for critical energy data including cumulative kWh, kVAh and kVARh, instantaneous voltage and current by phase, and combined line frequency and power factor;
more extensive reporting for current and prior period peak data including peak kW with coincident kVA and kVAR, peak kVA with coincident kW and kVAR, and peak kVAR with coincident kW and kVA all with optional timestamps;
a more feature rich demand reset functionality providing both scheduled and unscheduled demand reset capabilities;
an increased level of power quality monitoring, which provides more granular voltage and outage information;
voltage information returned with every interval, per phase outage reporting, and TRUPUSH per phase sag/swell alarms delivered upon occurrence, thus enabling the utility to be able to monitor power quality and react proactively when anomalies are detected.
Tantalus provides two-way, real-time data communications networks to monitor and control electric, gas and water utilities. TUNet – the Tantalus Utility Network, an end-to-end WAN/LAN/HAN communications system that operates with 220 MHz RF, 900 MHz, and IP-based networks including Fiber, WiMAX and GPRS/cellular, either individually or in combination. TUNet’s patented and patents pending technologies are purpose built for the Smart Grid. Tantalus claims that its TUNet’s C&I capabilities have been tested thoroughly over the last several years.
TMC recently reported that Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative (DETEC), a transmission and distribution electric cooperative, has selected Tantalus to provide advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) functionality for the approximately 40,000 meters on their system.
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