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The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition Adds Seven New Members

By Nathesh March 08, 2010
The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) has announced that Ambient Corporation, Johnson Controls, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, EnergyConnect, CALMAC, and EnOcean Alliance are now members.
 
The DRSG is the trade association for companies that provide products and services in the areas of demand response, smart meters and smart grid technologies.
 
The coalition has stated that its objective is to educate and provide information to policymakers, utilities, the media, the financial community and stakeholders on how demand response and smart grid technologies such as smart meters can help modernize electricity systems and provide customers with new information and options for managing their electricity use.
 
 
The seven new members will help the coalition to further its educational effort to highlight the benefits of modernizing the grid and of enabling customers to become empowered consumers of electricity.
 
Officials associated with DRSG have stated that smart grid and demand response have been receiving increasing attention lately as Congress and state lawmakers recognize the absolute importance of meeting energy and climate challenges by making the grid intelligent and interactive. The DRSG companies can easily tell why the smart grid is necessary to achieve national goals for job creation, climate-change, international competitiveness, and energy reliability and independence.
 
Demand response refers to the reduction of customer energy usage at times of peak usage in order to help address system reliability, reflect market conditions and pricing, and support infrastructure optimization or deferral.
 
One of the coalition’s new members Ambient can make use of IP-protocols based open standards technologies to offer utilities solutions that can be used to make smart grid communication platforms and technologies. Johnson Controls makes smart environments that have the ability to redefine the relationships between people and their surroundings.
 
Lockheed Martin has asserted that it is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Recently Boeing received Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid grants with specific instructions to work on projects to increase grid reliability, reduce system demands and costs and increase energy efficiencies.
 
EnergyConnect provides demand response technologies and services while CALMAC's responsive solution is designed specifically for fluctuating power demands and intermittent energy resources.

Nathesh is a contributing editor for IoTevolutionworld. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri
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