WELLESLEY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATCO Electric, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Utilities Limited and part of the ATCO Group of Companies, announced this week that it is implementing an MDM solution to house its interval meter customer data. The technology will enable ATCO Electric to manage the data for approximately 1,500 interval meters for its large industrial customers.

Nexus Energy Software was chosen to provide its Meter Vision® meter data repository along with some additional functionality to support ATCO Electric’s load profiling needs. This application will provide ATCO Electric with a broad set of functionality that leverages meter and customer data to address key issues in energy service planning and delivery. The application will perform ATCO Electric’s critical functions of data integration, validation, estimation and editing (VEE) and data storage and management. Meter Vision has an open, accessible, and versatile architecture, maintaining a complete audit trail. ATCO Electric has already committed to an Advance Metering Infrastructure and has fully deployed a TWACS® AMI system from Nexus’ sister company, DCSI, a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE).

"We conducted a thorough search of the market and determined that Nexus was the company with the product functionality that best suited our needs and vision,” said Sid Mathur, Manager, Metering, ATCO Electric. “Working in partnership with Nexus, we will have an industry-proven state-of-the-art foundation for the future. Our MDMS will eliminate manual processes, give us a centralized intelligent data repository, retire disparate legacy systems, and position us well for the future needs of the Alberta market."

Nexus Energy Software is a leading provider of MDMS systems, including applications that leverage the data to support areas such as revenue protection, distribution planning, load research, forecasting, settlement, complex billing and customer service. Its MDMS solution is currently being used to manage the largest AMI system in North America in terms of data volume, the 1.4M meter system deployed by PPL in Pennsylvania that collects hourly data.

“We are extremely pleased to be part of ATCO Electric’s long-term vision to maximize the benefits of AMI,” remarked Harvey Michaels, CEO of Nexus Energy Software. “ATCO Electric now has a powerful analytic tool to mine large quantities of meter information stored in the MDM Repository, giving ATCO Electric the power to store, analyze and aggregate information across its immense and diverse distribution territory.”

About Nexus Energy Software
Nexus Energy Software, a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), provides energy companies with software solutions that add value to the existing billing and metering infrastructure to allow both the company and its customers to better manage energy-driven transactions and decision-making. Nexus’ solutions support a vision of the 21st century utility, addressing: Meter & Energy Data Management; Distribution Planning & Operations; Customer Service & Revenue Management; and Energy and Resource Management.

Nexus’ ENERGYprism®, Energy Vision® and Nexus MDMS™ product lines are in use at more than 95 energy companies worldwide, supporting millions of annual interactions and transactions while reducing capital and operating costs and resource requirements, as well as increasing customer satisfaction.

About ATCO Electric
Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ATCO Electric serves almost two-thirds of Alberta, delivering electric energy to petroleum and forestry companies, farms, towns and cities, First Nations and Métis Settlements in 245 communities.

ATCO Electric builds, operates and maintains more than 67,800 kilometers of power lines and operates an additional 12,000 kilometers of distribution power line on behalf of Rural Electrification Associations.

ATCO Electric is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Utilities Limited, part of the ATCO Group of Companies. ATCO Ltd., an Alberta based worldwide organization of companies with assets of approximately $7.9 billion and more than 7,000 employees, is comprised of three main business divisions: Power Generation, Utilities (natural gas and electricity transmission and distribution) and Global Enterprises, with companies active in industrial manufacturing, technology, logistics and energy services. More information about ATCO Ltd. can be found on its website www.atco.com.

About ESCO Technologies
ESCO, headquartered in St. Louis, is a proven supplier of special purpose communications systems for electric, gas and water utilities, including hardware and software to support advanced metering applications. In addition, the Company provides engineered filtration products to the transportation, health care and process markets worldwide and is the industry leader in RF shielding and EMC test products. Further information regarding ESCO and its subsidiaries is available on the Company's website at www.escotechnologies.com.

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