SPAN and Landis+Gyr announced a strategic partnership meant to advance electrification, create grid flexibility, and build resilience, with the intention to help utilities improve utilization of existing assets, enable distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility management, and enhance customer engagement.
The companies say the solution will deliver a whole-home multi-asset virtual power plant (VPP), as well as extending the useful life of existing equipment by managing loads; providing device-level high-resolution continuous waveform submetering; allowing control of the highest value loads with the whole-home context based on real-time concurrent usage and customer preferences; and providing customers “total visibility and choice” in load management priorities and participation.
“The collaboration with Landis+Gyr allows us to advance AMI through device-level intelligence and control,” said Arch Rao, CEO of SPAN.- “Landis+Gyr’s high-resolution continuous waveform sensing, networking, and software capabilities perfectly complement SPAN’s household-level energy orchestration capabilities, allowing us to amplify grid-level benefits and improve utilization of existing infrastructure. Furthermore, SPAN’s Home App empowers customers, providing critical transparency and prioritization of DERs, improving customer awareness of energy usage, and enabling enrollment in demand flexibility programs. We’re thrilled to be working with Landis+Gyr to help utilities enable grid flexibility and advance their decarbonization programs.”
As the initial joint product from the partnership, Landis+Gyr and SPAN will offer a grid edge solution with circuit-level billing-grade metering, DER visibility, and controls. The joint product is intended to improve the utilization of existing utility infrastructure, in addition to enabling utilities to avoid secondary distribution service upgrades by balancing loads to maintain peak power of the premise within the existing capabilities of the grid.
“The partnership between Landis+Gyr and SPAN not only expands our flexibility management platform, which enables utilities to ensure grid stability and reliability, but also helps them reduce costly grid infrastructure investments required for electrification,” said Werner Lieberherr, CEO of Landis+Gyr. “We’re particularly excited to bring SPAN’s service upgrade avoidance capabilities and intuitive app experience to our customers to empower both utilities and end consumers to drive energy efficiency and flexibility. The collaborative solution innovated by our two companies will revolutionize the way end consumers and utilities combine their efforts to manage energy better and decarbonize the grid as a result.”
SPAN and Landis+Gyr plan to evaluate the offering with US utilities, starting with pilots this year.
The new product and partnership will be presented at DistribuTECH 2024 in Orlando, Florida from February 27-29. To find out more, visit Landis+Gyr’s booth #2401 and SPAN’s booth #2019.
