Customer Projects
New generation ripple control solution for the future smart grid in Belgium This July, Landis+Gyr won a tender to install ripple control (RC) command units for Sibelga and ORES, two of Belgium’s eight distribution system operators (DSO). Sibelga supplies electricity to almost 700,000 connection points in the Brussels metropolitan area while ORES, the second largest DSO in Belgium, supplies power to a total of 1.4 million homes and businesses located in 198 municipalities in Wallonia, in the south of Belgium. With the ripple control receivers already installed, Sibelga was looking to invest in 47 new generation command units to manage their RC receivers in Brussels and at the same time ensure that the new technology provides enough flexibility for future-ready business applications. Installing a homogeneous future-proof set of technology across their distribution network will make it much easier for ORES to maintain and adapt the network in the future. ORES anticipates that
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