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President & CEO Sarav Periasamy, V.P. Peter Wiersman , PERI Software discuss smart grid tech at a recent conference in Miami. PERI leads the industry as the only Asian-owned business with end-to-end smart grid bus. Solutions..
Newark, NJ / Washing DC – PERI Software Solutions, Inc. plans to attend the National Assn. of Regulatory Utilities and Commissioners (NARUC) Winter Meeting (Feb 13-17) and the joint NARUC/DOE Annual Electricity Forum (Feb 16-17), at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel (999 Ninth Street NW · Washington, District Of Columbia 20001 USA)
“We received great reception on PERI’s case studies,” said President & CEO Sarav Periasamy, Software Solutions, Inc., Newark, NJ. “We showed regulators and ratepayers examples of energy efficiency and security of smart grid technology in our presentations at the NARUC Summer Conference in Sacramento and annual national meeting last November in Atlanta. We look forward to meeting more commissioners and discussing our Energy Practice at PERI.”
Cyber security of smart meters has raised concerns nationally among public utility commissioners. Recently, Perisamy told the Government Technology Magazine, “Currently there are multiple levels of security concerns. In terms of consumers, to start with, the concerns are privacy — how their information will be safeguarded and how it will be used for or against them, permissions for how data will be shared with multiple agencies, who is liable in holding that particular data and who the consumer will go after if something goes wrong for them.”
Pres. & CEO Sarava Periasamy and V.P. Tim Maurer, PERI Software Solutions, Inc. at smart grid presentation in Atlanta, GA at NARUC national conference.
And Tim Maurer, who heads PERI’s Energy Practice, told Smart Grid Today (this month) PERI offers “custom software that will help utilities deploy new rate structures — and, just as important, integrate this data and analytics into their back office systems.”
Utilities have undertaken most deployments of smart grid technology like meters — to reduce their costs, Maurer said, noting that relatively few ratepayers have participated. To scale up the smart grid, more will need to do so — because of what’s in it for them.
PERI works with owners of commercial buildings to install systems that generate power use data, integrate it with data on pricing and options, feeding all of the data into a building’s automated controls, all in real time. “It is all in the name of cutting power use and power bills,” said Maurer.
PERI also works with utilities to provide homeowners with hardware and software that respond to the utility’s demand signals by controlling thermostats and energy-eating appliances like water heaters, microwaves and irons.
PERI will continue to work with rate payers to “deploy solutions that offer immediate payback,” Maurer told Energy Today. “As dynamic pricing takes hold, customers’ rates will better reflect the true — and fluctuating — cost of the power they use. But to get people to act, “having control of usage [will] be critical,” he said.
Periasamy and Maurer both presented one of PERI’s successful case studies from its GridMax single-source solution suite showing the ROI through PERI’s Energy Practice at a Utility Market Access Partnership (UMAP) Committee meeting at the 122nd National Assn. of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) annual meeting, Omni at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA.
UMAP establishes model program standards and “Best Practices” for state commissions. PERI outlined details of how it delivers high value-cost effective technology based business solutions for utilities and the ratepayer. The presentation also showed how it engages the customer on usage.
The federal government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a 300-page report last year on the cyber security and stressed the importance of keeping personal data confidential when meters are used. The report, Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements, also found that smart grid technology provides more avenues for disgruntled employees and cyber-criminals to compromise data.
PERI Software addressed all of those security concerns in 2010 at a Smart Grid Update conference in San Diego with its beta programs that were already in place and had tested PERI’s platform, technology and automatic metering systems. The concern is expected to surface at the DC conference as well. “We plan to show how smart grid technology will benefit consumers and talk about collaborative efforts underway to ensure physical and cyber security on the electricity infrastructure,” explained Periasamy. PERI also plans to display its hardware of automatic meters for water, gas and electric utilities.
About PERI
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