Formed in 1948, Efacec, the largest Portuguese Group in the field of electricity, employs around 4,800 people and has a volume of orders that already exceeded 1,000 Million Euros, being present in more than 65 countries.

    Energy Solutions
            Transformers
            High and Medium Voltage Switchgear
            Service
    Engineering Solutions and Services
            Engineering
            Automation
            Maintenance
            Environment
            Renewable
    Transport and Logistics
            Transport
            Logistics

Efacec's strategy, focusing on International market, as well as important investments made in Innovation and New Technologies Development, backed by the resources of Efacec traditional technology led the Group to a position at the forefront of the Portuguese Industry and overseas markets.

Further information is available on the Web at: www.efacec.com.

IBM is involved in more than 150 Smart Grid engagements in mature and emerging markets. More about IBM's vision to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts, can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

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NPP Mikronika (Scientific Production Enterprise Mikronika Ltd.) is an industrial company which performs design, development, provisioning, manufacture and commissioning of automated process control systems for power industry.

As a leading manufacturer of Substation Automaton Systems we have been operating on the market since 2009. We have supplied reliable and innovative products and services to Russian energy, transportation and industrial infrastructure markets. NPP Mikronika provides electric utilities with engineering and technology consulting services.

Hardware and software modularity allows implementation of different architectural solutions ranging from an ordinary data acquisition and transfer systems, to a full automated production control systems.

Sensus is making the smart grid a reality today with nearly 9 million smart endpoints connected and communicating across more than 225 electric, water and gas utility customers.  Our industry leading AMI technology, FlexNet™, is a robust, high-powered solution based on open standards that gives electric, gas and water utilities a dedicated communications network that is designed and built specifically for smart grid applications. Unlike networks that operate in the public spectrum and must share that bandwidth with unlicensed wireless devices, FlexNet operates over protected, licensed radio spectrum, ensuring a clear communications highway. This means no frequency sharing, no interference, and no problems – period. The FlexNet system provides security and reliability for utilities’ mission critical applications, such as distribution automation, SCADA, smart metering and consumer demand response programs. Sensus is the first AMI company to achieve overall cyber security certification, earning both the Wurldtech Achilles Communication and Process Certifications.

Sensus creates innovative and evolving technology solutions that enable intelligent use and conservation of critical energy and water resources.  Sensus has led the discovery, development, and implementation of technologies for the energy and water industries for more than a century. Water, gas, and electric utility customers around the world benefit from our open, flexible products and solutions to help them optimize their resources – today and tomorrow.

Sensus is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., USA and serves customers from locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.sensus.com.

SISCO provides communication and integration solutions that supports IEC 61850 for substation automation and wide area centralized remedial action systems(C-RAS); ICCP-TASE.2 for intercontrol center communications, EMS/SCADA integration, and power plant dispatching; C37.118 with IEC 61850 for synchrophasor processing and wide area measurement systems for improved situational awareness; and the Common Information Model (CIM per IEC61970 and IEC 61968) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Smart Grid integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  SISCO's products and services include:

• Systems Integration Services
• Off-the-shelf OPC interfaces
• Protocol Source Code
• Technology and Product Training

SUBNET Solutions Inc. is a global software solutions provider for electrical utilities. SUBNET focuses on Making Substations More Intelligent®. Founded in 1992, SUBNET is an industry leader providing intelligent solutions that securely connect real time electrical utility field information with utility business systems to enable Smart Grid solutions. Over 200 utilities worldwide rely on SUBNET software to safely manage and monitor thousands of substations.

Products include:
    SubSTATION Server: Advanced data concentrator and protocol converter
    SubSTATION Explorer: A feature-rich HMI for substations
    PowerSYSTEM Server: A front-end processor to collect substation data
    PowerSYSTEM Center: Centrally manage access to substation devices