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From smart meters to rooftop solar and energy storage, innovative technologies have the capacity to disrupt the utilities industry.

After remaining reasonably unbothered for the last 100 years, the lattice is in front of embracing new technologies that are sprouting new business models, altering consumer prospects and causing regulatory models to acclimatize.

The emerging technology solutions are reinventing the industry—automating and enhancing distribution grids, improving security and compliance efforts, and helping to harness meaningful information to keep costs down. With these advances, the industry can better serve their customers and grow the business.

Amidst this technology advances, the aging infrastructures, complex ecosystems, stricter regulations, and higher expectations set a challenging backdrop for energy and utilities. But connected

technologies offer powerful opportunities to modernize operations while cutting costs and generating insights. Technology is enabling utilities to embrace new challenges and pursue new opportunities.

In the last few months we have looked at hundreds of solution providers who primarily serve the utilities sector, and shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of tackling challenges faced by the industry.

In our selection we have looked at vendor’s capability to fulfill the needs of utilities sector—both from a provider and consumer perspective—through variety of services that support core business processes, including innovation areas related to cloud, SaaS, Big Data and analytics.

We present you to CIOReview’s 50 Most Promising Utilities Technology Solutions Providers 2014.

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T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s

50 Most Promising Utilities Technology Solution Providers

Company:Trilliant

Description:Helps energy providers empower consumers and improve energy efficiency, reliability, and integrate renewable and distributed energy resources

Key Person:Andy White, Chairman & CEORyan Gerbrandt, Senior VicePresident, Customer ServicesSonita Lontoh, Head of CorporateMarketing

Website:www.trilliantinc.com

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“It’s estimated that the smart grids in the U.S. alone can achieve energy efficiency savings be-

tween 60-200 billion kilowatt hours, re-ducing between 100-200 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions,” said a study by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). “That is roughly equivalent to taking 1-2 million cars off the road for a year,” says Andy White, Chairman and CEO, Trilliant. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Trilliant helps utilities and energy retailers globally achieve their smart grid visions by providing proven and indus-try-leading smart grid software and com-munications solutions.

In the evolving energy sector, CIOs and CTOs of leading utilities are faced with new 21st century challenges and need to modernize their aging energy infrastructure to better manage peak demands; improve energy efficiency, reliability and customer satisfaction; in-tegrate more intermittent renewable and distributed energy resources into the

grid; and reduce greenhouse gas emis-sions. They also need to continue to pro-vide consumers with safe, reliable and affordable energy. “Utilities are faced with daunting technical complexities to unify the disparate information from their many systems. The Trilliant Smart Communications Platform— proven and purpose-built for the utility industry, can integrate these siloed systems into a uni-fied whole,” says White. Trilliant helps utilities successfully deploy a broad set of smart grid initiatives that include Smart Distribution, Smart Metering and Smart Consumer applications.

The Trilliant’s approach is to tru-ly partner with utilities to understand

their needs and leverage the company’s multi-technology, multi-purpose, multi-application platform, to fulfill a rich set of requirements that helps utilities meet broader business cases.“Trilliant plays a significant role in providing utilities with the simplicity of one platform that offers the flexibility of multiple technologies to provide a low-risk and future-proof path towards the smart grid,” says Ryan Ger-brandt, Senior Vice President, Customer Services.

“Our platform is built on technol-ogy and processes. It consists of three components - a network communication component that is multi-technology and multi-purpose; a software component that manages all of the devices in the network; and a professional services component

that helps utilities deploy smart grids successfully,” says Sonita Lontoh, Head of Corporate Marketing. There are many benefits of smart grids. For instance, dis-tribution automation applications can help utilities reduce blackouts and outages. According to EPRI, outages in the U.S. alone can cost the economy $180 billion per year. “Even a ten percent reduction in outages will contribute about $18 billion to the economy and the smart grid has the potential to reduce much more than that,” reveals Sonita.

Trilliant is truly a global company, with a diverse set of customers and pres-ence in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. “A key component of our internal strategy is to maintain a high lev-el of knowledge sharing through collabo-rations,” adds White. He says, “It’s about collaborating on lessons learned and best practices, with the goal of continuing to deliver excellence to our customers.”

Trilliant has helped leading utili-ties and energy retailers globally, who collectively serve more than 85 million customers, deliver the benefits of smart grids to their customers, their operations, their societies and the environment. Some of Trilliant’s leading utility customers include Iberdrola USA’s Central Maine Power in the US, Centrica’s British Gas in the UK, Hydro One Networks in Canada and many more.

Trilliant continues to strengthen its platform with enhancements that will in-crease its capabilities to deliver benefits for its utility customers. “We also contin-ue to strengthen our relationships with a broad ecosystem of platform’s partners to provide utilities with the most flexibility and options to choose the best-of-breed application they need to achieve their smart grid objectives, today and in the fu-ture,” says White.

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We help utilities and energy retailers deliver the benefits of the smart grids

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