Greentech Lead America: Silver Spring Networks, a provider
of networking platform and solutions for smart energy networks, has been
selected by Unison for a smart grid project in New Zealand.
Under this partnership, Unison will deploy Silver Spring’s
standards-based IPv6 networking solution across the entirety of Unison’s
service territory (in Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo). The smart grid rollout will
deliver improved reliability and service for consumers and provide enhanced
management of power grid assets, and enable greater overall energy efficiency.
The deployment leverages Silver Spring’s Gen4 networking
technology that delivers increased performance, reliability, and security.
Silver Spring’s standards-based IPv6 networking platform supports a range of
solutions and applications focused on increasing power grid performance and
improving energy efficiency.
fiber backbone, enabling real-time communication with network devices, as well
as real-time monitoring of the status and quality of customer supply.
future innovations to customers and is helping establish New Zealand as a
global benchmark for modern, efficient, and smarter energy networks,” said
Scott Lang, CEO of Silver Spring Networks.
Silver Spring’s standards-based infrastructure allows us to leverage a
single platform to provide many smart grid applications and solutions,” said
Ken Sutherland, Unison Group chief executive.
Silver Spring Networks in
pact with CPFL for smart grid network rollout in Brazil
Recently Silver Spring Networks entered into an agreement
with CPFL Energia, a private electric energy company in Brazil, for a
foundational smart grid networking project across the company’s distribution
area in Brazil.