Canada’s Festival Hydro is deploying Landis+Gyr’s Revelo grid sensing platform and metering technology to upgrade its system and provide long-term support for energy management.

Based in Ontario, Festival Hydro is installing Revelo grid sensing meters, which operate on the Gridstream RF mesh IP network, for all its 23,000 customers. The project is part of an ongoing grid modernisation plan to prepare the utility’s distribution system for flexible demand management and reliability improvements.

“When we evaluated new AMI systems, our top priority was the ability to react to the opportunities we have today, while being able to address anticipated future technology needs,” said Bryon Hartung, vice president of engineering at Festival Hydro.

Upon completion of the deployment, Festival Hydro intends to assess how Revelo’s load disaggregation capabilities, and other evolving platform enhancements, could be used to enhance customer energy insights and inform future rate design and demand management strategies. A planned integration with the utility’s outage management system should improve outage response, fault location detection and customer communications, while reducing truck rolls.

“Festival Hydro is a great partner with a history of investing in infrastructure to improve reliability and power quality for their customers,” said David Chris, vice president at Landis+Gyr. “As with many utilities, looming capacity constraints are top of mind and the move to Revelo provides the high-resolution data and real-time control necessary to maintain both reliability and affordability for their customers.”

Revelo (www.landisgyr.com/us/en/home/devices/revelo-metering-platform) is grid sensing and metering technology rapidly being adopted by North American utilities. Using high-resolution waveform streaming, the technology can identify and monitor grid devices and operation. This enables features such as location awareness, transformer monitoring, voltage management and fault detection. On the customer side, it provides load disaggregation and situational awareness to enable real-time usage information for users, smart switching and DER integration.

Festival Hydro (www.festivalhydro.com) is an electricity distribution company headquartered in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. It serves more than 23,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers across Huron and Perth counties.

Technology from Swiss firm Landis+Gyr (www.landisgyr.com) is used by more than 3500 utilities worldwide.