EGM and Israel Electric Company sign a Strategic Cooperation and Investment Agreement
IEC will invest $1 million in monitoring and analytics of the grid. An agreement for a strategic cooperation and investment was signed between IEC and EGM Ltd. for grid monitoring through sensors.IEC will invest $1 million as part of a $17 million raising round, to unable the development and deployment of EGM’s system to monitor […]
Failure Prediction
The electricity market is rapidly changing. Consumers are becoming producers; centralized markets are shifting towards distributed energy resources; renewable energies take on more of the load; underground grids and an almost absolute reliance by the end users – those are just a few examples. An important effect which derives from all of that is that […]
From Reliability to Resilience: Rising Severe Weather from Climate Change Threatens Grid Operations
It is a common understanding among utilities and grid operators that one of the most significant challenges they face is extreme weather events. Predictions for the coming decade talk about increase in the number as well as the volume of extreme weather events such as rise in temperatures, less water availability, rise in sea level, […]
Big Data Analytics via EGM Meta-Alert system
As the world’s leading utilities are moving towards reliance on smart grid, those utilities now face a new challenge of dealing with tremendous amounts of data generated by that smart grid. Those challenges come into play mainly in terms of data storage, data processing, data analysis, and data security. This is where big data analytics […]
Employing EGM’s Meta-AlertTM System for Condition Based Monitoring
One of the common notions in today’s electric market is that in order to make the most of the grid, a utility needs to implement condition based monitoring. The logic behind condition based monitoring is that the maintenance should be adjusted to the actual status of the grid, rather than to a fixed set of […]
The Importance of Exhaustive Grid Monitoring for Distributed Energy Resources Management
What is DERM and What are its Goals EGM is one of only four companies worldwide that has been selected to participate in the Shell GameChangerTM Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN). Under this auspice EGM collaborates with NREL to evaluate the essentiality of EGM’s Smart Monitoring and Insight Generation System (Smart M&IG System) for Distributed […]
EGM solutions being presented at Metering India 2019 conference
EGM solutions being presented at Metering India 2019 conference, hosting some 500 industry executives. EGM grid monitoring solutions were presented at the event key note speech, delivered by Mr. Elad Shaviv, CEO of the Israeli Smart Energy Association, as a case study for the evolution of grid and the migration from smart meters to a […]
Meta-Alert System: Damage Avoidance instead of Damage Control
Strengthening the Grid: Utilities’ Strategy to Cope with Extreme Weather Events Extreme weather events are no longer rare incidents that occur once in a blue moon. On the contrary, they are becoming more frequent in their occurrence and more extreme in their degree. Since the electricity grid is located in the open air on high […]
EGM Board Member James Lavin at the New England Conference Public Utility Commissioners Shark Tank Presentation
On the first week of June, 2019 Mr. James Lavin, EGM Board Member, attended the New England Conference Public Utility Commissioners Shark Tank (NECPUC). The NECPUC brought together regulators, utility companies, and various interest groups to a three-day conference in which topics such as water, telecommunications and electric utilities were discussed. On June 4th Mr. […]
Integrating Distributed Energy Resources: A Key Capability the Future of Smart Grid Should Have
Imagine a world where you drive your electric vehicle on your way to a family lunch at a nice restaurant, get to the place and notice your Electric Vehicle’s battery is running low. You open your mobile phone and with the help of a smartphone application you locate an EV charging station near you, park […]