Cisco® Smart Grid solutions bridge across multiple technologies to enable utilities and other organizations in the energy industry to build secure, standards-based IP networks to efficiently meet the demands of energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption. Designed to meet the requirements of next-generation intelligent energy networks, the Cisco Smart Grid solutions use the foundation of a supply a secure, standards-based communications infrastructure from generation to home. Cisco Smart Grid is a combination of products, technologies, services, and ecosystem partners that optimize communications, improve resilience, and reduce the operational cost and complexity of the energy grid.

Cisco Smart Grid solutions are designed to:

• Reduce energy network outages and disruptions
• Minimize risks by increasing the resiliency and security of the power grid
• Lower the cost of energy storage, transmission, and distribution
• Improve management operational efficiency
• Help increase environmental sustainability

Cisco is a trusted and committed partner with world class products and services for Smart Grid.
 
For more information visit:  www.cisco.com/go/smartgrid

Dow Inside is a new initiative from Dow Wire & Cable, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), that benefits cable manufacturers and utilities alike. It further reinforces Dow Wire & Cable's commitment to the power industry by helping to provide better cable reliability and long service life based on exceptional materials, dedicated R&D, deep industry knowledge and close working relationships with cable manufacturers, utilities and other power industry influencers.

For more information visit: www.dowinside.com

Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses.

For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities

ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 120,000 people.

We support our customers to achieve the most energy efficient solutions, for new and existing investments in the power sector. As a market leader ABB combines the most advanced technology and experience, executing projects of any size from planning to commissioning, through all voltage levels, and from process control to turnkey deliveries. 

For more information visit: www.abb.com

BPL Global, Ltd. (BPLG) is a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy and information delivery. The company provides software solutions and services to electric utilities enabling an intelligent grid to more efficiently manage demand, integrate distributed energy resources, improve service reliability, and optimize cost and capital productivity.

BPL Global partners with local utilities, internet service providers, equipment suppliers and financiers to create end-to-end solutions integrating the best in software, communications, hardware and managed services to aggressively deploy smart grid solutions around the world. Part of the clean technology sector of the electric utility industry, our applications provide the critical foundation for a coordinated, intelligent grid to deliver energy more efficiently for a greener environment.

BPL Global is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, with their EMEA headquarters located in Le Mans, France. BPLG additionally has offices in Oregon on the west coast of the United States, China, Kuwait, and Brazil and has representation in South Africa. Additional information can be found at

Power Plus Communications AG (PPC) is the leading provider of broadband powerline communication systems (BPL) for Smart Metering and for the intelligent power grids of the future, Smart Grids. Our BPL system enables real-time data transfer over existing power grids based on the Internet (TCP/IP) protocol with open interfaces to meters, other application devices and also to metering and billing software solutions. Our clients are leading utilities in Germany, Europe and the Middle East. We are also core member of the German ministries E-Energy project “Modellstadt Mannheim”.

For more information visit: www.ppc-ag.com

Hitachi is a leading global technology company with total revenues of $102 billion (year ended March 31, 2009), employing approximately 400,000 people worldwide. Hitachi’s business is highly diversified and the Hitachi group in Europe is expanding its already significant presence through organic growth of its four strategic sectors: Power Systems, Rail Systems, Construction Machinery and Enterprise Storage Systems. Hitachi in Europe is committed to improving society through the development of innovative technologies and intelligent solutions.

Hitachi has a wide range of information and communication technologies, and control systems for Smart Grids, including power electronics that improve energy efficiency, power quality, and the reliability of the electricity grid.
Hitachi recognises that humankind faces global environmental challenges which need global-scale solutions. As part of this, the company has developed an environmental vision that sets a goal to help reduce annual CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes through Hitachi products and services with high environmental performance.

For more information visit: www.hitachi.eu

Joulz – former technical infra-company of NL utility Eneco - enters the utility market as system integrator and service provider for endurable future proof energy infrastructures for gas, heat and electricity. Joulz is therefore specialized in HV/MV electricity grids and offers its services in:

• Consultancy & Studies
• Design & Engineering
• Project Management, Infra Realization & Commissioning
• Operations, Maintenance & Emergency Services
• Optimization & Measuring Services

Joulz has a specific focus on substation automation and IEC 61850. Joulz deploys a dedicated work force for design, engineering, implementation and operational services of SA systems independent of equipment suppliers providing full interoperability for protection, local and remote control with many references in The Netherlands.

For more information visit: www.joulz.nl

KEMA, established in 1927,  is an independent knowledge leader and a global provider of high-level services to the energy value chain, including business & technical consultancy, operational support, measurements & inspection, and testing & certification. KEMA provides impartial advice and support to the producers, suppliers and end users of electricity, gas and heat, as well as to governmental bodies.

Technical innovation lies at the heart of much of what we do. Our team of more than 1,900 professionals based in twenty countries around the world is dedicated to the provision of customized solutions. This encompasses everything from the origination of innovative, yet practical, answers to the energy-related problems of the future, to the development and implementation of cutting-edge quality assurance services for electrical and other high-risk equipment and processes. For more than eighty years, quality, integrity, reliability and expertise have been KEMA’s core values.

Expertise in the fields of energy-related strategic and policy consultancy combines uniquely with comprehensive technical and technological know-how to distinguish KEMA from other service providers. These qualities enable KEMA to help its clients optimize their business and activities.

For more information visit: www.kema.com

Telvent, through its innovative information technologies, wishes to contribute to creating a more sustainable and secure world. For that reason, we employ the most talented personnel with vast experience in developing solutions and services that help manage energy sources more efficiently; reduce CO2 emissions in transportation by reducing traffic congestion; optimize the complete water cycle; monitor and oversee critical infrastructures and provide proprietary real time information services, which is required to optimize the production and distribution of basic commodities.

Telvent is the global IT solutions and business information services provider that helps to improve the efficiency, safety and security of the world’s leading companies. Telvent serves markets that are critical to the sustainability of our planet, including the energy, transportation, agricultural and environmental sectors.

For more information, visit: www.telvent.com