Electrical Industry Canada Power Quality Issue - 22

AWESENSE AND VADIMUS PARTNER
ON NANOGRID INTEGRATION PLATFORM
BY BLAKE MARCHAND
Awesense and VadimUS recently announced a collaboration to
address roadblocks faced by electric utilities in nanogrid integration, as
well as power quality issues for commercial and industrial (C&I) facilities.
The partnership couples the Awesense Digital Energy Platform with
VadimUS' VadiMAP turnkey solution. Essentially, to bridge the gap on
renewable energy for utilities and C&I customers. Power quality is
becoming more and more of an issue. Renewables and distributed
energy resources (DERs) can be utilized to alleviate that stress on the
centralized grid, although the infrastructure and systems need to be in
place to facilitate the transition.
VadimUS CEO, Dan Boucher, commented via press release that the
aim of the partnership is to develop the most reliable distributed energy
resource possible, and, " one that both the utility and the real estate
property owner can use together to help them reach their goals faster. "
VadiMAP offers a fully online platform and 'turnkey' solution to
integrate renewable energies into commercial and industrial facilities.
While Awesense's digital energy platform focuses more on providing
data and insights so utilities can more fully understand what is
happening with their systems. In part to help identify optimal
candidates for nanogrid adoption.
We spoke with Andrew Yague, Strategic Alliance & Business
Development Lead with Awesense and Jeremy Boucher P.Eng. Director
of Operations with VadimUS to gain more insight into the partnership
and what they want to accomplish.
Yague has been with Awesense for two-years, working on
partnerships and business development, developing relationships with
partners and utilities. " I have a background in computer science, which
fits well with the kind of work we're doing at Awesense. But I moved
more towards the commercial route at the beginning of my career. "
Boucher has an electrical engineering background and manages
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projects for VadimUS as Director of Operations. " My background is
more into electrical distribution, more into breakers, transformers to
maintain them and to install them. But I had a big shift into renewables -
with the integration of renewables into buildings you need to have
knowledge of distribution. "
What is VadiMAP?
" VadiMAP is a turnkey solution for organization, either commercial,
industrial, or institutional seeking to realize renewable energy systems
for their buildings. When I say turnkey, we have a portion that is software
that we have developed ourselves to prescribe the optimal renewable
energy system for that building, " explained Boucher, adding that the
platform is focused on decentralization behind the meter with
renewable energy integration. The second turnkey element is the
installation, for which they work with installation partners to install
nanogrids at the facility.
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