The Cannon demand management solution, which is a product of Cooper Power Systems’s energy automation solutions (EAS) group, supports a number of Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) goals including ensuring system reliability and helping customers manage their energy use.
Cooper expects the project will represent $42 million in revenue over the 2008-11 period, and when expanded to full capacity, it will provide more than 600MW of clean energy capacity by 2011.
Cooper Power Systems’s EAS group is providing BGE a solution comprised of its Yukon enterprise software, along with a combination of smart thermostats and control switches utilizing a wireless communications system.
Mike Stoessl, Cooper Power Systems’s president, said: With the largest demand response business in North America, Cooper is committed to supplying world-class technology solutions that assist our utility customers in improving service reliability while providing clean energy and reducing customer bills.
