FARMINGDALE, New Jersey, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --
Dialight BLP reports that Elster Electricity, Raleigh, N.C., has placed a new order for 200,000 of its PowerPulse(TM) 200-amp disconnect/reconnect load switch for use in their REX2(R) smart electric meters.
Elster selected the PowerPulse 200-amp switch because of its robust design and proven field experience. The PowerPulse switch design allows for over 50,000 mechanical operations and places the switch fully in an open or closed state. Elster has shipped over 150,000 AMI meters with full service control switches to customers who are actively operating the function. The service control feature gives utilities the ability to remotely disconnect and reconnect electric service to consumers, also enabling tokenless prepayment and demand-limiting capability.
"Elster is dedicated to providing solutions that exceed our customer expectations," remarked David G. Hart, Elster's senior vice president of products and quality. "Customer demand for our smart meters with an integrated service control switch is just one of the reasons Elster has the largest deployment of two-way mesh AMI applications in the world. We currently have 150,000 smart disconnect meters working at various utilities, and based on current demand have just ordered 200,000 more control switches from our supplier, Dialight BLP."
For more information, www.blpcomp.com or contact Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight BLP, Farmingdale, N.J.; phone: +1-732-751-5857; fax: +1-732-751-3157; e-mail: rahmad@dialight.com.
About Dialight BLP
A subsidiary of Dialight plc (FTSE: DIA.L), Dialight BLP specializes in the design and manufacture of switching solutions for residential gas and electricity service applications. Its extensive experience in Europe, North America and Africa has made the company the market leader in providing both standard and custom connect/disconnect devices. Designed for maximum safety and with over five million disconnect devices in services, Dialight BLP switching solutions are used extensively in a range of residential metering and control application sin the utility industry. www.blpcomp.com.
Web site: http://www.blpcomp.com
Henry Raab of swb&r, +1-610-866-0611, for Dialight Corporation
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