ALAMO, Calif., April 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Con Edison, a
regulated operating company of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:
ED), with support of GridBright, has gone live with STORM (Support
Tool for Outage Restoration Management), an innovative new software
solution that will help New York's
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) reduce delays and
improve quality of life to New
York's 5.7 million daily subway riders.
STORM is a proactive software solution that analyzes data from
smart meters to detect and address problems in the electric grid
before they become outages; in addition it will also detect when
power has actually failed. GridBright, a systems integrator
specializing in outage management, led the system integration team
to enhance STORM to use data from more than 2,000 smart meter
locations on the New York City
subway system.
Thomas Langlois, project manager
at Con Edison stated, "The STORM tool has already proved itself by
proactively identifying subway supply issues before they caused
service interruptions. GridBright's assistance in developing this
tool on time and on budget is helping Con Edison deliver value to
our customers and all users of the subway."
As part of this effort, Con Edison developed a mechanism to
provide the MTA unparalleled visibility into their own electric
service status. Con Edison also created new communications
protocols to ensure that Con Edison operators and subway system
operators have consistent real-time information regarding the power
supply to the subway.
The STORM tool is the first phase of the multi-year OMS (Outage
Management System) integration project that started with a contract
award to GridBright in June 2017. The
GridBright team is part of the ongoing multi-year deployment of
smart meters under Con Edison's Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) project. The next phase of the GridBright efforts is
integration between OMS and AMI that will provide additional
critical benefits from AMI project.
Kevin Wasserman, Senior
Specialist at Con Edison will be presenting a detailed case study
of the STORM deployment at the EUCI Advanced Distribution
Management Systems (ADMS) and Distributed Energy Resources
Management Systems (DERMS) conference in Houston on May 1-2,
2018. https://www.euci.com/event_post/0518-adms-derms/
About Consolidated Edison, Inc.
Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE: ED) is one of the nation's
largest investor-owned energy companies, with approximately
$12 billion in annual revenues and
$49 billion in assets. The
company provides a wide range of energy-related products and
services to its customers through its two regulated utility
subsidiaries, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., and Orange and Rockland
Utilities, Inc., and its two non-utility subsidiaries, Con Edison
Clean Energy Businesses, Inc. and Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
About GridBright, Inc.
GridBright is the grid management specialists of the utility
industry. GridBright helps the electric industry improve grid
operations through smarter solutions for managing resiliency,
distributed resources, and renewables. To learn more,
visit GridBright.com.
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