Silver Spring Networks Selected by Snohomish County Public Utility District for Distribution Automation (DA) Initiative
June 12 2013 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI), a leading networking
platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, today
announced it has been selected for the initial phase of a
distribution automation project with Snohomish County Public
Utility District (PUD), which serves more than 320,000 electricity
and 20,000 water customers in northwestern Washington State.
Leveraging Silver Spring’s standards-based IPv6 networking platform
and distribution automation solution, the Snohomish PUD program is
designed to improve the reliability, efficiency, and resiliency of
its distribution grid.
“We selected Silver Spring because of the company’s proven
performance supporting vital DA communications. We are committed to
providing the highest levels of service to our customers. As part
of that commitment, we’re connecting our cap bank controllers and
automated switches to increase the reliability, efficiency, and
resiliency of our power grid,” said Chris Heimgartner, Assistant
General Manager of Distribution & Engineering Services at the
utility. “Silver Spring’s standards-based networking platform
allows us to not only connect, monitor and control DA equipment in
the field today, but to also create the long-term foundation for
deployment of additional smart grid solutions in the future.”
“We’re proud to help the citizens of Snohomish County and Camano
Island benefit from a more reliable and more efficient power grid,”
said Dan Middleton, Executive Vice President of Sales, Silver
Spring Networks. “Our industry-leading DA solution enables
utilities to improve distribution network reliability, asset
management, and quality of service.”
Accelerating Smart Grid Benefits for Public Power
Providers
Silver Spring will be at the American Public Power Association’s
National Conference, the largest event for the public power
community, on June 17-19, 2013 in Nashville, TN. Silver Spring will
be showcasing its latest smart grid innovations for municipal and
cooperative utilities in Booth #307.
Silver Spring has recently introduced a ready-to-deploy
Municipal and Cooperative Smart Grid Solution to speed evaluation,
reduce risk, lower costs, and empower municipal and cooperative
utilities’ consumers. With a focus on making it easy to rapidly
scope, deploy and test results, the solution enables municipal and
cooperative utilities to roll out a range of smart grid solutions
such as sophisticated Advanced Metering Infrastructure for
electricity, water, and natural gas customers, Demand Response,
Distribution Automation, and other critical infrastructure
applications over time. Silver Spring is working with municipal and
cooperative utilities such as CPS Energy, Modesto Irrigation
District, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Snohomish County
Public Utility District and others to unlock smart grid benefits
for their consumers today. For more information visit
www.silverspringnet.com/bigsolutions.
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About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking
platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. Silver
Spring’s pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with 16.5 million
Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting utilities to
homes and business throughout the world with the goal of achieving
greater energy efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring’s
innovative solutions enable utilities to gain
operational efficiencies, improve grid reliability, and
empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver
Spring Networks customers include major utilities around the globe
such as Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor,
Commonwealth Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Jemena
Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco
Holdings, Progress Energy and Singapore Power, among others. To
learn more, please visit www.silverspringnet.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about
Silver Spring Networks’ expectations, plans, intentions, and
strategies, including, but not limited to statements regarding
Silver Spring’s engagement with Snohomish County Public Utility
District. Statements including words such as "anticipate",
"believe", "estimate", "expect" or “future” and statements in the
future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions,
which, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could
cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and
uncertainties include those described in Silver Spring Networks'
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements
in this press release are based on information available to Silver
Spring Networks as of the date hereof. Silver Spring Networks
assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements.
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