“This is a great opportunity for both Safex and the City of Westerville to help make a better community for both our clients and our families,” says Dianne Grote Adams, president of Safex.  “As an environmental, health and safety company we believe in sustainability in the environment and participation in this program is an investment in what we believe in.”

 

As part of the Westerville SmartGrid and Solar Pilot Project, Safex will help explore and study the use of all of the potential SmartGrid features to determine how to best design, install, inspect, size, fund, use and operate the system in a municipal power utility, with grant funding from American Public Power Association and the City of Westerville, Ohio.

 

The Westerville SmartGrid project includes adding equipment to homes and businesses to allow them to benefit from solar energy, backup power and real-time information on consumption and costs, and to allow the utility to benefit from shifting peak usage to off-hours, temporary delaying operation of some loads, remote meter reading, and coordinating these actions across many buildings to maximize the value to the utility and the grid.