The OpenADR Alliance has reported an increase in membership with companies such as AutoGrid and EnerNOC joining at the Sponsor level. Alstom Grid, Cisco, Comverge, REGEN Energy, Wireless Glue, Universal Devices and Ventyx have joined the OpenADR Alliance at the Contributor level; Duke Energy (News - Alert), Hawaiian Electric Company, Institute for Information Industry and Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute have joined as Adopters.
The OpenADR Alliance is a nonprofit corporation promoting the development, implementation and compliance of a Smart Grid standard, Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR). The OpenADR Alliance now comprises of 71 members, including 27 individual members.
The OpenADR Alliance has undergone a 44 percent increase in membership since December 2012. With the OpenADR Alliance successfully testing OpenADR2.0a-compliant products, the OpenADR standard has also been corroborated. The growth has boosted the organization’s capability to decrease expenses, enhance dependability and step up the speed of computerized demand response deployments for the smart grid.
Barry Haaser, managing director of OpenADR Alliance, said in a statement, “Industry momentum is clearly growing globally for standards-based DR. The addition of our new members and our rapidly growing membership base reinforces the importance policy makers, utilities and equipment manufacturers place on interoperable energy management systems. The imminent release of the OpenADR 2.0a specification, coupled with availability of our new test tool will allow us to support the rapid deployment of OpenADR certified devices this summer.”
According to Amit Narayan, president and CEO at Auto-Grid Systems, interoperable systems require open standards with a defined thorough program for compliance. Interoperable systems can therefore facilitate Demand Response for accomplishing a mainstream market. The OpenADR Alliance has keyed up an environment that will increase the affordable scaling of Demand Response in the market.
David Hardin, senior director, Smart Grid standards, EnerNOC, Inc. said, “A standards-based infrastructure is a key step in improving ease-of-participation for energy users who want to be more engaged in active energy management. OpenADR 2.0 represents an important development in standardizing how systems interact with each other across the grid, and this improved interoperability will facilitate quicker, more seamless and more efficient connections between participants in demand response.”
Edited by Melissa Warten