Massachusetts utility Peabody Municipal Light Plant (PMLP) is deploying Landis+Gyr’s Reveloplatform to manage clean energy projects and engage customers.

This should bring the benefits of intelligent grid management to PMLP’s 27,000 electric customers on the outskirts of Boston.

The third largest municipally-owned electric utility in Massachusetts, PMLP is installing Landis+Gyr’s Revelo grid sensing AMI technology using the Gridstream Connect RF mesh IP network to support efficient and flexible communication across its service territory.

“Our grid modernisation project is designed to integrate new energy resources, while expanding energy management options for our customers,” said Joe Anastasi, general manager at PMLP. “This technology supports initiatives to continually modernise our communications network, improve system functionality, and add public EV charging infrastructure, additional solar generation and energy storage. The real-time processing of grid edge data that Revelo provides is a significant benefit for situational awareness and load disaggregation to help manage demand and maintain reliability.”

In addition to adding AMI 2.0 functionality, PMLP is working to enhance electric vehicle charging options for customers, adding energy storage to help reduce peak power costs and reduce stress on the network while supporting clean energy options.

“PMLP is focused on solving some of the most pressing energy supply and demand challenges the industry is facing,” said Mark Ortega, director of distribution sales at Landis+Gyr. “Revelo’s grid edge intelligence capabilities serve as a foundation for improved energy management and reliability.”

The Revelo platform provides traditional AMI functionality along with continuously streaming high-resolution data to the edge intelligence processor to detect and identify loads and anomalies on both sides of the meter. Additionally, it is available to run on RF mesh IP, Wi-Sun protocol and omni-carrier cellular or private LTE network.

PMLP (www.pmlp.com) is a not-for-profit- electric utility owned by its customers. It serves all of Peabody and a portion of Lynnfield, an autonomous subdivision of the city of Peabody. With approximately 27,000 customers, PMLP is the third largest of 40 municipal electric utilities in the commonwealth. Its power supply comes from various sources throughout the north-east of the USA, including two generators in Peabody owned and operated by PMLP. This local generation supports the regional power grid but also serves as an emergency backup in case of a grid failure.

Swiss firm Landis+Gyr (www.landisgyr.com) provides smart energy management. It measures and analyses energy use to generate analytics for smart grid and infrastructure management, helping utilities and consumers reduce energy consumption.