Solutions

Resource Conservation:

  • Provide two-way demand response to reduce peak energy use
  • Collect, manage, and transmit high resolution usage data
  • Present innovative time-based rate programs and incentives

Risk Mitigation:

  • Offer proven AMI solutions with service-oriented MDM
  • Enable rapid deployments with hosted systems
  • Integrate new technology with legacy systems

Customer Satisfaction:

  • Provide fast, efficient, personalized service
  • Retain loyal customers with innovative energy programs
  • Deliver pricing and billing information via in-home displays and the web

Operational Excellence:

  • Apply integrated technologies to the Smart Grid
  • Enhance service scheduling, delivery, and outage planning
  • Provide PLC and RF-based AMI/AMR systems for gas, water, and electric

What's New

Aclara Demand Response Management System Advances Load Control at Twin Valleys Public Power District

April 26, 2012
Aclara®, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), today announces a contract with Nebraska's Twin Valleys Public Power District (TVPPD) to deploy Aclara’s TWACS and Demand Response Management System (DRMS) technologies. The integrated solution will provide a single, fully-integrated platform for demand response, advanced metering and data collection, and power system management.

Two Wins for MDM and Consumer Engagement Cement Aclara Mid-Market Momentum

April 19, 2012
Lafayette Utilities System (LUS), which provides electric, water, wastewater, and telecommunications services to approximately 62,000 electric customers and 52,000 water customers in Lafayette, La., will implement the Aclara Meter Data Management (MDM) system, while Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation (BREMC), Lenoir, N.C., will deploy Aclara Consumer Engagement as well as MDM. These two new mid-sized utilities cement Aclara’s leadership in providing meter data management (MDM), meter data analytics (MDA), and consumer-engagement solutions that meet the diverse requirements of electric, gas, and water utilities of diverse size and market.

Aclara DRMS Brings Comprehensive Load Control to Cuming County Public Power District

April 4, 2012
Aclara®, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), today announced a contract with Nebraska’s Cuming County Public Power District (CCPPD) to deploy the Aclara Demand Response Management System (powered by Calico). CCPPD, a long-time Aclara customer, has agreed to purchase the solution to expand the load-control capabilities of its existing TWACS network infrastructure.

White House Cites Aclara's Support for Green Button Initiative

January 26, 2012
Building a Strong, Lasting Economy with Energy Innovation… Today, the White House, in a press release from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, linked to Aclara’s announcement of its support for green button initiative, which offers usage data to eight million utility customers.

STAR ZoneScan Automated Leak-Detection from Aclara Now Commercially Available

January 23, 2012
STAR® ZoneScan, a unique, automated system from Aclara® that can pinpoint underground leaks on water mains to within a few feet, is now commercially available for widespread distribution. The system combines the strengths of leak-intelligence units from Gutermann International with the STAR Network two-way, fixed-network AMI technology from Aclara. Central to the system are Gutermann leak-intelligence units, also called loggers, which are deployed at regular intervals on valves throughout the water-distribution network.

Calico Energy and Aclara Strategic Alliance Will Bring Integrated Load Control and Demand Side Management Solutions to Electric, Gas, and Water Utilities

January 18, 2012
Calico Energy Services (www.calicoenergy.com), the market leader in interoperable energy-management solutions and analytics, and Aclara(r), a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), today announced a strategic partnership to provide an integrated set of advanced load control, analytics, and demand response (DR) solutions to municipals, cooperative utilities, wholesale power cooperatives, and IOU customers. http://www.aclaratech.com/pages/pressreleases.aspx.

SDG&E’s massive (1.4 million) smart electric meter deployment uses Aclara’s customer experience package and analytics to provide Smart Grid functionality to its customers

December 19, 2011
Greentech Media: “We liked Aclara’s overall customer experience package and analytics,” Reguly said. With SDG&E’s move to peak rebate pricing, time-of-use pricing and other more complex residential rates, “We have a lot more functionality we needed to bring to our customers,” and with SDG&E expecting to be supporting 50,000 users of online energy tools by the end of next year, it also needs to roll out new features to as many customers as possible. Click headline to read full article

Aclara Utility Customers Dominate E Source Study of Customer-Facing Web Sites

September 1, 2011
Aclara consumer-engagement solutions power 15 of the top 25 utility web sites benchmarked in the recently completed "E Source Review of North American Electric and Gas Company Websites: 2011."

Southern California Gas Co. to deploy Aclara AMI hardware and software to six million end points

May 23, 2011
Aclara contracts with SoCalGas to deploy system-wide Aclara’s AMI integrated hardware, software and network architecture solution to approximately six million residential and most commercial natural gas customers. When completed, the deployment will represent North America’s only fully integrated meter-to-consumer AMI system used by a natural gas-only utility.

City of Tallahassee Debuts Water Component in Aclara’s ENERGYprism Customer-Care Solution

May 5, 2011
The City of Tallahassee is the first utility nationwide to add presentation and analysis of water data to its Aclara ENERGYprism® online customer-care solution, the most widely used and tested customer-portal platform in the industry.

Utility-Industry Veteran Brad Kitterman Joins Aclara as President

January 27, 2011
Brad Kitterman Aclara is pleased to announce that Brad Kitterman has joined the company as its President. Kitterman is a utility-industry veteran who has served as president of Schlumberger’s North America Utilities Division, where under his leadership revenues doubled from $300M to $600M in four years through both internal growth and acquisitions such as Cellnet Data Systems and Convergent Group. He began his career at Schlumberger as a development engineer in its Electricity Metering Division and also led its North American Engineering Group.

Independent Research at AESP Conference Proves Online Analysis Spurs Behavior Changes and Conservation

January 19, 2011
Research conducted at PPL EU found that customers using PPL Electric Utilities’ online energy analysis reduced their energy use up to 4.8 percent annually. This translated to a total reduction in usage of almost 11.6 million kWh in 2008 with some customers saving as much as 748 kW h per year.

Aclara Meter Data Management System Improves Customer Service at Pee Dee Electric Cooperative

January 18, 2011
Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, Darlington, South Carolina, is using Aclara’s cost-effective, mid-market Meter Data Management System (MDMS) to enhance all aspects of its customer service, allowing the utility to refine its time-of-use (TOU) rates and improve customer billing for its 30,000 residential and commercial members. The cooperative went from kick-off to finalization of its MDMS system in just four months.

CFE issues additional purchase order for Aclara TWACS® power-line technology as part of CFE’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project.

December 27, 2010
Mexico's electric utility, Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) issues additional purchase order for Aclara TWACS® power-line technology. Aclara’s TWACS technology is currently being deployed as part of CFE’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project. CFE is Mexico’s single electric utility provider, servicing nearly 34 million customers countrywide.

Analysis Shows Aclara Online Energy Audits Critical to Energy-Saving Behavior by Customers of PPL Electric Utilities

September 21, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities’ customers who used Aclara’s energy analysis reduced their energy use up to 4.8 percent annually, according to recent analysis by Opinion Dynamics Corporation, a leading national consulting firm specializing in market research and energy-program evaluation. This translated to a total reduction in usage of almost 11.6 million kWh in 2008 with some customers saving as much as 748 kW h per year

Upcoming Events

May 15-17, 2012

AESP's Spring Conference

The Hilton Baltimore hotel  Baltimore, MD

Aclara Exhibiting

July 30-31, 2012

AESP's Summer Conference & Expo: Exploring the Next Generation of EE programs – a North American perspective

Toronto Marriott Downtown Toronto, Ontario CANADA

Aclara Exhibiting

October 10-12, 2012

Chartwell's EMACS Customer Service Conference

Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, CA

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