Alstom Grid Psymetrix wins smart grid contract with ISO New England in North America

Alstom Grid, the global expert in electrical grid performance, has been awarded a contract to supply its Psymetrix PhasorPoint solution to ISO New England under the Synchrophasor Infrastructure and Data Utilization (SIDU) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) project. PhasorPoint will help ISO New England improve its management of power system dynamics and system reliability through early detection, analysis and verification of corrective actions for the grid. With PhasorPoint, ISO New England will also benefit from the storage of time synchronised historical wide-area data for easy retrieval and analysis.

Psymetrix, the worlds leading expert in phasor-based wide area monitoring systems (WAMS), was acquired by Alstom Grid in February 2011 to complement Alstoms On-line Stability Solutions suite of software applications.

Dr Jos Trehern, Chief Executive of Psymetrix, states: We are extremely proud to have been selected for ISO New Englands project. We are also delighted with the tremendous recognition this gives our advanced solutions, expertise, future developments and demonstrable synergies with other Alstom Grid solutions.

"Alstom Grid is dedicated to helping our customers implement smart grid technologies in their unique environments. We view smart grid technologies and projects like this one with ISO New England as having the potential to really transform the industry in terms of quantifying the dynamics of the grid as we incrementally enhance it, said Jean-Michel Cornille, Senior Vice-President, Grid Power Electronics and Automation at Alstom Grid.

This new project illustrates how strong the Alstom Grid-Psymetrix technology synergy has grown in delivering effective on-line grid stability solutions. We are more than ever committed to expanding the value we bring to our customers through our Psymetrix acquisition, he added.

About Alstom

Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world. It provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 92,000 people in 100 countries and had sales of 20.9 billion in 2010/11.

Alstom Grid has over 100 years of expertise in electrical grids. Whether for utilities or electro-intensive industries or facilitating the trading of energy, Alstom Grid brings power to its customers projects. Alstom Grid ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector with an annual sales turnover of more than 4 billion. It has 20,000 employees and over 90 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide. At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, Alstom Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chainfrom power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user.

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