TVA is a public power company, providing energy to industries and power distributors that serve approximately 9 million consumers in seven southeastern states.
Generation Partners incentivizes end-use customers, both residential and commercial, to purchase and install eligible renewable energy generation systems such as solar PV, wind, biomass, and hydro-electric systems.
TVA said that it purchases 100% of the green energy output from the renewable generation system by paying the retail rate, plus any fuel cost adjustment, plus a premium of 12 cents per kWh for solar and 3 cents per kWh for all other eligible technologies.
SmartSynch’s turn-key Managed Services offering will handle the reading, uploading, storage and delivery of generation data for TVA and the local power companies. SmartSynch said that its use of public wireless networks as the communications backbone for the system will streamline the deployment process for local power distributors.
Stephen Johnston, CEO of SmartSynch, said: ”TVA’s Generation Partners program is a win-win for its local power companies and end-use customers alike, and we are pleased that our smart metering solution will play a supporting role.
”This is yet another testament to the value, reliability and flexibility of smart grid solutions utilizing public wireless networks. It would otherwise be impossible to strategically deploy this depth of remote communication and control functionality on a location-by-location basis.”
