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The Schneider Electric meter is well-known for its predominant usage and dependability over decades. It is gaining applause for its super-efficiency and is becoming the customers’ first choice. Duke Energy®, serving 25 million people and businesses (2016), knows first-hand the customer success story of microgrids and Schneider Electric power meters and software. Microgrids  are trending nowadays and don’t you want to know what helps make this new celebrity of the electric industry work? Intelligent power and energy meters, interconnected with the microgrid control network, play a key role in microgrid functionality. Schneider Electric  PowerLogic ION8650  series meters provide the monitoring data that’s crucial for operating microgrids. Just how does Duke Energy know for certain the flexibility and backup security of these meters? And why is Fire Station 34 in Charlotte, NC, grateful? When the South’s Queen City, as Charlotte is known, endures the grid-threatenin...

Today’s business model for electric utilities  are shifting from the traditional role to a more advanced one. Electricity suppliers are being challenged with stagnating or declining electricity sales in some regions. Increasingly popular distributed energy resources (DER), including on-site solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and energy-storage devices also are having a revenue impact. European utility executives polled by the market-research firm  IDC Energy Insights think new business and services supporting their commodity-electricity business will account for about 40% of utilities’ revenues by 2020. To meet changes, many distribution system operators (DSOs) are exploring new and innovative ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management Systems). They wish for creating stronger customer relationships and modernize the power distribution system operations to open new revenue streams for growing their businesses beyond energy sales. With the help of efficient DMS (Distribution Manage...