ATLANTA, April 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS) announced today at the opening of ACSessions, its' 30th annual user's conference and the longest running utility distribution customer conference in the market, that the NETL Modern Grid Initiative (MGI) has licensed ACS' distribution system simulator, called XpertSim(tm), for use in MGI's technology test and validation program.
MGI is a project conducted by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. ACS participates in MGI along with a wide range of utility company delegates, technology providers, researchers, and government officials.
The goal of MGI is to advance a shared national smart grid vision for a fully modernized power system. MGI is delivering on this by bringing together key participants to create a common framework that gains the consensus of all stakeholders -- science, industry, commerce, consumers, environmentalists and others -- through an open, accountable process. ACS is a consistent and ardent supporter of open integration standards and technology interoperability programs.
ACS president David Moore remarked, "We are honored by MGI's selection of our technology."
MGI is deploying the ACS simulator to model, test and validate new smart grid, renewable, and distributed energy technologies in order to evaluate their effect on distribution system performance. The benefits and operational characteristics of these technologies will be evaluated in real-time using a dynamic transient simulation of an actual distribution feeder network.
Moore concluded, "Smart grid momentum is accelerating across the utility industry following Gridweek in Washington DC. ACS is committed to working closely with its customers and all industry stakeholders to advance open, interoperable, and cost-effective smart grid technologies. As we welcome delegates from around the world to our customer conference event here in Atlanta, we welcome MGI to the ACS customer community."
About Advanced Control Systems, Inc.:
Established in 1975, Advanced Control Systems (ACS), Inc. is a leading provider of smart grid solutions to the global electric power industry. The ACS software suite provides integrated distribution and outage management, simulation, optimization, and enterprise business intelligence. ACS automation product lines include a wide range of flexible and cost-effective substation, distribution, and feeder automation solutions. ACS is powering the utility of the future -- today. For more information, visit www.acsatlanta.com.
About the NETL Modern Grid Initiative:
The Modern Grid Initiative seeks to create a national vision for a fully modernized electric power system. The initiative will empower researchers and other stakeholders to connect, collaborate and move forward in partnership through summits, working groups and key findings.
The Modern Grid Initiative will work toward demonstrations of key technologies that will serve as the foundation for an integrated, modern power grid. For more information, visit www.themoderngrid.org.