alliander and siemens

So those that were around back in the exciting years will remember Nuon. Around the time we were building our German facility they were ordering 50,000 units ending performance targets being met.

Then they were acquired by Vattenfall and thats all she wrote.

In doing homework it turns out Alliander was the network arm with Nuon being the energy supplier. They were spun off from one another back before the Vattenfall acquisition

So in some regards that lengthens the relationship CFU have had with Alliander. Revisiting their LOI from March...some language

"... As a first step, up to 600 BlueGEN systems are to be installed across Alliander's regional grids in Germany by 2015"

"... will initially focus on the Heinsberg region (in North-Rhine Westphalia) before moving to the national level in a second phase of deployment. "

"..To achieve this objective, Alliander plans to top up national and regional subsidy schemes to make the installation of BlueGEN systems financially more attractive to clients connected to Alliander's grids. "

So all sounds like a good strategy...but CFU has had these sorts of ties ups in the past.

One thing that makes me a little more confident about Alliander is something I came accross on the weekend regarding Siemens


Nuremberg, 2013-Oct-15
At the European Utility Week smart energy trade show in Amsterdam, the Siemens Smart Grid Division (Nuremberg, Germany) and Dutch grid operator and energy utility Alliander N.V. (Arnheim, Netherlands) have signed a smart grid cooperation agreement. The objective of the cooperation is to join forces to develop and promote innovations for intelligent power supply networks.
This new cooperation will focus on requirements for smart grids for which there are not yet any marketable solutions. Joint developments will help to close these gaps. Possible solutions include technologies which can be used to increase the transparency of medium- and low-voltage networks, innovations for virtual power plants, innovations for data security in power grids and for patch management, as well as the development of analyses specifically tailored to grid managers. To accomplish this, the data recorded along the entire energy conversion chain should be prepared so it will be in a usable form for grid managers.
The cooperation between Siemens and Alliander additionally complies with the EU's demand that distribution system operators cooperate with other market participants. With over 3.3 million customers, Alliander is the largest operator of power and gas networks in the Netherlands. This energy supplier wants to use its innovation partnership with Siemens to take the next steps toward initiating a fully developed, smart grid for the future in its network area. Jan Mrosik, CEO of the Siemens Smart Grid Division and Peter Molengraaf, Alliander CEO, announced the partnership in Amsterdam on October 15, 2013.


Another piece of the puzzle