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Groom Energy demand-side smart grid promises 15% energy savings

June 29, 2011 — 10:31pm ET | By Barbara Vergetis Lundin

Enterprise Smart Grid is the technologies and processes on the company or demand side of the main utility meter. Smart metering, AMI and AMR are technologies which monitor the main meter which are owned by the utility. Enterprise Smart Grid is the technologies "inside" a company's facilities which monitor and control energy use. This includes submetering of main loads like furnaces, lighting or machine shops, and linkages with the company's energy management and control systems. Enterprise Smart Grid technology is owned and controlled by the company, where utility smart grid technology is own and controlled by the utility. Both sets of technology work together to more intelligently balance the supply and demand of energy.

Enterprise Smart Grid is a view from the company perspective, not the utility. Companies have facilities in dozens if not hundreds of different locations and deal with many types of utilities. They require intelligent energy management systems across all of their facilities to better control costs, and meet corporate energy and carbon emission reduction goals.

"These company-specific technologies complement that utility smart grid and give the utility measurement and verification of savings due to load reduction incentives in demand response and other programs," said Paul Baier, Vice president of Sustainability Consulting for Groom Energy Solutions, in an interview with FierceEnergy.

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