Integral Analytics Receives Industry Recognition for Innovation in Big Data/Analytics

    CINCINNATI, OH, November 21, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- - Integral Analytics (IA) announced today that it has been recognized by this year's Fierce Innovation Awards, the energy industry program powered by the publisher of Smart Grid News. Integral Analytics received top honors in the Big Data/Analytics category, which included OPower and Space-Time Insight, among others. A panel of industry expert judges selected Integral Analytics based on technology innovation, financial impact, market validation, ability to integrate into existing network environments, and end-user customer experience. IA's LoadSEER platform was highlighted for most accurate forecasting, DER integration, hosting capacity and least-cost DER resource optimization used by forward-thinking utilities and DER stakeholders.

"Integral Analytics is honored by this recognition from the Fierce Innovation Awards' esteemed expert panel," said Tom Osterhus, Integral Analytics founder and CEO. "As the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) continues, utilities need more granular and dynamic decision tools to balance load, capacity and reliability at the grid edge, all within a least-cost mandate. We now see this foundational requirement in practice via regulatory changes in California and New York. LoadSEER uniquely provides the intelligence platform needed for Distributed Integrated Resource Planning. The automation of load forecasting, power flows and optimized least cost analysis is best achieved through LoadSEER's geographic, economic, distributed resource, and weather impact analysis across the utility's service territory. Most risks lie within the last mile, and hence most of the value and cost savings to all grid edge stakeholders. LoadSEER fundamentally changes the way that energy will be managed and delivered by pricing and optimally-locating DERs where the balanced value is highest, the proverbial "level playing field."

About Integral Analytics
Since 2005, dozens domestic and international electric utilities rely on Integral Analytics (IA) software to plan, value, monitor, operate and capitalize distribution systems and smart grid programs. IA' products are the industry's most advanced, interoperable and statistically-robust for scalable integration of nodal assets at the grid edge. IA is the leader in evaluating and optimizing least-cost DER, analyzing loads and generation on locational and time basis. IA is well known for software that calculates future costs and avoidable costs for utilities. DSMore, the company's first offering, remains popular with utilities and regulators, its latest LoadSEER, IDROP and LoadScrubber software helps utilities optimize distribution plans and designs, is rapidly growing in popularity as the industry improves understanding and appreciation of the complex world of DER integration and distributed least-cost planning. Integral Analytics optimizes DER based on a least-cost Distributed Marginal Price (DMP) framework, mathematically insuring least cost outcomes. More information at: Integralanalytics.com.

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