SAN BRUNO, Calif. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ --
Greenbox Technology, creators of energy management software for the home,
announced today that they have partnered with smart grid infrastructure
experts Silver Spring Networks to successfully deploy the Greenbox(TM)
interactive energy management platform for Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E).
The goal of OG&E's Positive Energy(TM) SmartPower program is to empower
customers to better manage their energy consumption and control costs using
Greenbox's intuitive Web-based interface. Silver Spring Networks provided the
network infrastructure, data collection and integration with the Greenbox
platform via its Smart Energy Network.
Consumers are increasingly aware of their home energy consumption and it
is the first and most natural place for them to impact their usage by changing
habits. Leading utilities around the country are currently in the process of
upgrading their infrastructure and are exploring ways to help customers manage
their home energy use. The trial deployment at OG&E will inform the market
about the best ways to meet new consumer expectations for saving energy and
inform utilities on how to implement programs with time-of-use rate structures
and solutions such as those from Greenbox.
"Greenbox sets a new standard for energy intelligence in the home," said
Jonathan Gay, Founder of Greenbox Technology and creator of Flash. "Just as
Flash enables hundreds of millions users to experience multimedia on the
Internet, Greenbox enables households to experience and understand their
energy usage in ways never before possible."
Greenbox Technology brings an innovative Web-based approach to meeting the
needs of both utilities and their residential energy customers. Greenbox
provides utilities with a Web-based interactive energy management platform
that delivers an insightful, consumer-friendly interface for their smart grid
initiatives. For residential energy customers Greenbox provides the
information and tools that enable customers to better manage their energy
usage, control costs and reduce their carbon footprint by helping them
understand how and when they are using energy through custom usage analysis,
historical visualizations of energy use and email reports and alerts.
Greenbox educates customers on time-of-use pricing models and suggests
ways to save money by reducing energy usage during peak periods. Greenbox even
allows households to compare their usage to that of similar homes, and to
understand their electricity-based carbon footprint. The product can also
support monitoring of water and gas usage and be customized to meet the unique
needs of each utility.
"Silver Spring Networks is pleased to be working with Greenbox Technology
at Oklahoma Gas and Electric," said John O'Farrell, Executive Vice President
of Silver Spring Networks. "Our advanced networking technology is the perfect
enabling platform to support OG&E's efforts to give their customers the option
to monitor and reduce their energy use using innovative technologies such as
Greenbox's Web-based interface. The 2-way, real-time networking enables an
immediate exchange of information that makes these customer programs so
valuable."
Silver Spring Networks supports a full range of smart grid applications,
including the advanced metering and home networking applications being
implemented by OG&E. In addition, Silver Spring Networks provides an open,
secure, proven, reliable networking platform that will enable OG&E to realize
additional operational and environmental benefits in the future.
"This technology has the potential to change the relationship we have with
our customers," said Ken Grant, managing director of marketing for OG&E. "It
is the key to empowering our customers both with better and more timely
information and with the tools they need to respond to this information to
better manage their energy usage. When we put this technology into our
customers' hands, they understand immediately the value they can obtain from
the information provided."
Working with Silver Spring Networks for data acquisition via their Smart
Energy Network, Greenbox Technology designed the web-based platform to
receive, display and analyze 15-minute interval data for each home every day
on a continual basis. Households simply need to log into the website via their
browser to understand how and when they are using electricity.
About Greenbox Technology Inc.
Based in San Bruno, California, Greenbox Technology provides leading
interactive energy management solutions for utilities and residential energy
customers. Our products enable homeowners to conveniently track, understand,
and manage their utility usage, reducing their environmental footprint while
saving money. Through world-class human design and insightful analysis of home
resource usage, Greenbox Technology empowers people to make informed choices
about their utility use that are aligned with their values and priorities. For
additional information, visit http://www.getgreenbox.com.
About Oklahoma Gas and Electric
OG&E is Oklahoma's largest utility, serving more than 765,000 customers in
a service area spanning 30,000 square miles in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
OG&E is a subsidiary of Oklahoma city-based OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE),
which also is the parent company of Enogex LLC, a midstream natural gas
pipeline business with principal operations in Oklahoma.
About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks creates the critical networking infrastructure for
the Smart Grid, known as a Smart Energy Network. Based on the Internet
Protocol (IP) suite, it addresses the challenges of running multiple
applications and devices on a common networking infrastructure using multiple
transport technologies, dramatically improving efficiency, lowering costs and
ensuring the reliable delivery of services. This smarter, more efficient grid
could cut the growth rate of worldwide energy consumption by more than half
over the next 15 years and drastically reduce carbon emissions. Silver Spring
Networks was named a Technology Pioneer at the 2008 World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland and was a recipient of the GoingGreen and Brilliant
Innovation Awards in 2007. For additional information, visit
http://www.silverspringnetworks.com.
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