Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently introduced a new suite of software management tools it is offering to utilities, system operators and defense customers to give them more insight into their enterprise operations and to provide command and control of their smart grid assets.
The Smart Energy Enterprise Suite (SEEsuite) consists of three products, SEEView, SEELoad and SEEGrid. The solution set aims to enhance the integration of energy and information systems that make up the promise of the smart grid and provide enterprise-wide situational awareness, dynamic demand response management, grid and micro-grid resource management, and multi-layered cyber security.
Enterprise-wide situational awareness allows a utility to look across its enterprise, transmission and distribution systems, the markets it buys energy from, and all the way down to the meters at a home, and then integrate that information in “real-time” and provide “actionable information” to improve decision making, Paul Wyman, senior manager, for Smart Grid Solutions at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Services division, said at a media briefing.
The demand response capability allows consumers to take advantage of the smart meters installed at their homes and will eventually give them “the ability to say, ‘I’m going to buy power at this time, I’m going to buy it for this price and I’m going to use as much as I deem I need,'” he said.
For grid and micro-grid resource management, SEEsuite will allow the management of new distributed energy systems as they come on line and “make sure the sustainability and reliability of the grid stay intact,” Wyman said.
Wyman said that Lockheed Martin has demonstrated SEEsuite to various utilities, transmission companies and consultants and is finalizing sales to several utilities.
The introduction of the new smart grid software management tools is an expansion of Lockheed Martin’s push into the energy and alternative energy space (Defense Daily, Dec. 3, 2009).