北卡羅萊納州-Raleigh的Consert公司 ，是智能電網技術供應商，今天宣布，聯合能源公司（紐約證券交易所：學校發展津貼），通用電氣能源金融服務，通用電氣公司（紐約證券交易所：GE），美國高通公司（Nasdaq：QCOM），和Verizon的風險投資公司和私人投資者已投資1770萬美元進行，戰略營銷，北美的銷售和不斷增強Consert先進的智能電網軟件。

Consert的首席執行官Jack Robert說“Consert現在已經把消費者和小企業的利益聯系到了一起”。這個小組的投資者提出的使我們創新出利用智能基礎設施，即時通訊，和智能家用設備的綜合綠色能源解決方案的愿景向前邁近一步。

通過提供公用設施經營的形式產生和分發儲備衡量的和可核查的能力，Consert創建一個虛擬山頂植物平方米 ，可推遲或取代，而不是需要更多的常規發電廠的成本是70至80少百分之當前資本成本的一個新的燃氣電廠峰值與營運成本，相當于少百分之60。

機對機通信功能和管理，通過Verizon Wireless的網絡-全國最可靠的和最大的3G網絡。  Consert能夠報告實時，實證數據，實現綜合消費對電網的解決方案，額外的智能功能，包括需求管理，先進計量基礎設施和家庭區域網絡。

“通過利用3G無線網絡管理軟件通訊和實時數據采集，Consert已經開發了智能網系統的有效解決方案” 高通公司經營企業主管Quinn Li說。“Consert的創新技術將使他們的成功地在變化的市場中找準位置。”

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Raleigh-based Consert Inc., a smart grid technology provider, announced today that Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE:GE), Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), Verizon Ventures and private investors have invested $17.7 million to fund strategic marketing, North American sales and ongoing enhancements of Consert’s advanced smart grid software.

“Consert has united the interests of utilities with those of consumers and small businesses”

“Consert has united the interests of utilities with those of consumers and small businesses,” said Consert CEO and President Jack Roberts. “This group of investors advances our vision of creating an integrated green energy solution with smart infrastructure, real-time communications, and intelligent in-home devices.”

Consert is currently providing municipal and cooperative electric utilities in North Carolina and Texas with a reliable, flexible and economical form of green operating reserves and energy management. Consert empowers consumers to manage their energy usage without compromising control, comfort or convenience through secure online energy profiles and home devices.

Wake Electric Membership Corporation in North Carolina just completed a pilot with Consert and now plans to extend the service to its member base. Its CEO, Jim Mangum, reported, “Our pilot participants realized energy savings ranging from 7 to 54 percent with an average of 17 percent and responded favorably about the ease-of-use of the Consert system.”

Consert gives energy conservation the attributes of generation and addresses utilities’ issues such as capacity, transmission, renewable portfolio standards and power variability from intermittent generation. Consert has the ability to solve energy issues quickly and cost-effectively and also offers advanced ancillary services such as wind and solar regulation.
“Demand side resources must be as reliable as generation assets to meet capacity obligations in today’s marketplace,” said Kathi Hyle, COO, Constellation Energy Resources and senior vice president, Constellation Energy. “The Consert solution meets this test and could benefit utilities, municipals and cooperatives nationwide.”

By providing measurable and verifiable capacity in the form of operating reserves for generating and distributing utilities, Consert creates a Virtual Peak PlantSM that can defer or supplant the need for additional conventional power plants at a cost that is 70 to 80 percent less than the current capital cost of a new gas-fired peak plant with an equivalent operating cost that is 60 percent less.

“Consert’s technology connects homes and small businesses through existing communications networks, enabling utilities to balance electricity demand, increase energy effi