Oracle - Cobb Electric Membership Corporation Selects Oracle Utilities
Solutions to Improve Customer Service and Support Smart Grid Initiativ
Cobb Electric Membership Corporation (Cobb EMC), a
not-for-profit electric membership cooperative serving approximately 196,000
residential and commercial customers, has selected Oracle Utilities Meter Data
Management and Oracle Smart Grid Gateway to support its smart grid initiatives.
Cobb EMC will be working with Red Clay, a Gold level member of Oracle
PartnerNetwork (OPN), on the implementation.
As a recipient of Federal funding under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Cobb EMC chose Oracle solutions to help
manage the vast quantity of customer energy consumption data that it will
gather from a deployment of 196,000 smart electric meters. The Oracle solutions
will help the utility comply with various integration standards including
Multispeak, which regulates interfaces of software applications and the
exchange of data among software applications, as well as International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Common Information Model (CIM), which enables
application software to exchange information about the configuration and status
of an electrical network.