GOUDA, Netherlands and ZUG, Switzerland /PRNewswire/ -- Landis+Gyr, a leading global energy management solutions provider, has been awarded a major contract by the four Dutch distribution grid operators Liander, Stedin, DELTA Netwerkbedrijf and Westland Infra for the supply and offer of 3 million smart meters in the Netherlands. The contracts, which have been signed with all four operators individually, have an option for an extension later, which could result in a higher number of smart meters delivered.
Landis+Gyr will supply both smart electricity meters and smart gas meters based on the Dutch Smart Meter SMR5 specifications to all four grid operators. The majority of the meters will be rolled out in the time period from 2016 – 2020. The project may be prolonged until the end of 2026. At the end of this project, the majority of Dutch households will be equipped with a smart electricity meter and a smart gas meter.
With this tender, the four grid operators are complying with the legal obligation to offer a smart meter to every household in the Netherlands before 2021. Moreover, the Smart Meters being installed will be equipped with a communications port that allows the smart meter to communicate into the home. This will enable consumers to visualize their energy consumption on an In-Home Display, or connect to a Home Energy Management System (HEMS). This functionality will give Dutch consumers the ability to have direct feed-back and control their energy consumption.
"This is a significant win for Landis+Gyr in Europe," says Oliver Iltisberger, Executive Vice President Landis+Gyr EMEA. "Alliander, Stedin, Delta and Westland have joined forces to bring benefits to the Dutch consumers. After Landis+Gyr supplied the majority of the smart meters in the pre-rollout in the Netherlands, these contracts are a confirmation of the trust and confidence in our company."
Coco Geluk, Managing Director of Landis+Gyr, Netherlands, added, "The winning of this public tender marks a continuation of Landis+Gyr's long-standing relationship with these four grid operators. We are very happy and proud to be able to make a contribution to the smart meter rollout in the Netherlands, which will bring tangible benefits to Dutch consumers and strengthen the energy supply system."
Alliander and Stedin say that the choice to launch a joint tender was taken because both parties share the same vision to organize a large scale roll-out project and the choice for CDMA 450 as their communication technology. The participation of Delta and Westland brings the total coverage to 70 percent of the Dutch networks.
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Background information
In the last decade, various smart meter projects have been performed in the Netherlands. Initially as small pilots, later as bigger projects, in the past two years, the Dutch grid operators have worked together in the so called Netbeheer Nederland consortium. Together they have installed smart meters at more than 500.000 households inthe Netherlands. Landis+Gyr was one of the selected suppliers for electricity and gas meters in this project.
About Landis+Gyr
Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management products tailored to energy company needs and unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. With annualized sales of more than US$1.6 billion, Landis+Gyr, an independent growth platform of the Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502) and 40% owned by the Innovation Network Corporation ofJapan, operates in 30 countries across five continents, and employs 5,200 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better.