CURRENT Group Partners With Tendril To Demonstrate The Power Of Bi-Directional Smart Grid Solutions For Utilities And Their Customers

• Partnership offers interoperability between CURRENT's Industry Leading Intelligent Distribution System Solutions and Tendril's Comprehensive Energy Management Platform
• CURRENT and Tendril's "interoperable by design" solutions made possible through the use of open standards

Washington, DC – CURRENT Group announced recently that it has entered into an agreement with Tendril, creator of the Tendril Residential Energy Ecosystem (TREE), an open, standards based home energy management platform for utilities, energy retailers and their consumers, to offer interoperable solutions that will maximize the efficiency of the electric distribution system and empower customers to be efficient in their electric usage.

The Tendril relationship demonstrates the commitment by both companies to deliver solutions that integrate CURRENT's industry leading advanced sensors, communications, and analytics for the electric distribution system with Tendril's comprehensive suite of energy management applications and family of in-home hardware. Such partnerships assure that utilities can invest in proven technologies that exemplify the power of smart grid; ubiquitous, high-speed, secure, two-way communications and sensing from the distribution grid to the utility back office, and extending into the customer premise.

"Tendril's industry leading customer energy management works seamlessly with the CURRENT Smart Grid™ network through the power of IP standards. This partnership demonstrates the power of open standards to enable Smart Grid pioneers, like Tendril and CURRENT, to integrate their solutions to form an even more powerful and complete solution for utilities and their customers," said Ray Gogel, President and COO, CURRENT Group.

"CURRENT is a company backed by solid investors and has been at the forefront of smart grid innovations around communications, sensing and monitoring, in both hardware and software, and will continue to develop solutions that are innovative and industry-leading. Tendril is pleased to partner with CURRENT as we continue to build the ecosystem that will enable the Smart Grid," said Tony Bamonti, VP of Business Development, Tendril.

SOURCE: CURRENT Group