“It’s estimated that the smart grids in the U.S. alone can achieve energy efficiency savings between 60-200 billion kilowatt hours, reducing between 100-200 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions,” said a study by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). “That is roughly equivalent to taking 1-2 million cars off the road for a year,” says Andy White, Chairman and CEO, Trilliant. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Trilliant helps utilities and energy retailers globally achieve their smart grid visions by providing proven and industry-leading smart grid software and communications solutions.

In the evolving energy sector, CIOs and CTOs of leading utilities are faced with new 21st century challenges and need to modernize their aging energy infrastructure to better manage peak demands; improve energy efficiency, reliability and customer satisfaction; integrate more intermittent renewable and distributed energy resources into the grid; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They also need to continue to pro- vide consumers with safe, reliable and affordable energy. “Utilities are faced with daunting technical complexities to unify the disparate information from their many systems. The Trilliant Smart Communications Platform— proven and purpose-built for the utility industry, can integrate these siloed systems into a unified whole,” says White. Trilliant helps utilities successfully deploy a broad set of smart grid initiatives that include Smart Distribution, Smart Metering and Smart Consumer applications.

The Trilliant’s approach is to truly partner with utilities to understand their needs and leverage the company’s multi-technology, multi-purpose, multi-application platform, to fulfill a rich set of requirements that helps utilities meet broader business cases.“Trilliant plays a significant role in providing utilities with the simplicity of one platform that offers the flexibility of multiple technologies to provide a low-risk and future-proof path towards the smart grid,” says Ryan Gerbrandt, Senior Vice President, Customer Services.

“Our platform is built on technology and processes. It consists of three components - a network communication component that is multi-technology and multi-purpose; a software component that manages all of the devices in the network; and a professional services component that helps utilities deploy smart grids successfully,” says Sonita Lontoh, Head of Corporate Marketing.