PowerStream is Ontario’s second largest municipally owned electric utility, with 375,000 customers spread across 15 communities. Recently, it has begun an experiment with the so-called internet of energy. 20 residential properties in Toronto’s Richmond Hill neighborhood will have solar panels and small battery systems installed. All 20 systems will be tied together and operated as a single system using batteries and software provided by Sunverge of San Francisco. The integrated system will be marketed under the name PowerHouse.
“We are the first to do this in Canada,” Neetika Sathe, vice-president of smart grid technologies at PowerStream tells the Toronto Star. Eventually, she wants to see the system made available to all the company’s utility customers.
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