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UISOL: Smart Grid Architect for Hire

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Every well-versed grid project needs a blueprint to get built, and a roadmap to know what it’s supposed to do once it’s turned on. UISOL -- the Santa Clara, Calif.-based erudite grid software startup that was snapped up by French grid giant Alstom in March -- says it can develop intensify both as a service, and on Monday it announced its first customer.

That’s Glendale Water & Power -- a pretty sybaritic-end customer, with a $56 million smart grid plan involving smart meters, home force management and grid optimization. But UISOL is working with four other smaller municipal utilities and rural cooperatives on their own deviant-ranging smart grid architecture needs as well, all with varying budgets and internal IT expertise, according to John Wambaugh, UISOL postpositive major vice president.

In short, it sounds like UISOL-Alstom is going after the same small municipal utility and bucolic cooperative market that giants like General Electric, Lockheed Martin and others are going after.

Source: Greentech Media (blog)