Dive Summary:

• Silver Springs Networks is fully integrating Dominion’s Edge platform, primarily used for conservation voltage reduction, into its own UtilityIQ Voltage Optimizer, which comes with all of the components—advanced metering manager software, power monitor and Dominion’s Edge—pre-integrated.
• Unlike other voltage optimization products, Dominion’s Edge doesn’t require much beyond smart meters and some control equipment on the grid itself to make voltage adjustments.
• Dominion says it has barely been able to keep up with the interest in Edge, and a partnership with Silver Spring, which has more than 60 partners and has raised just under $300 million to date, should help bring the product to more utilities.

From the article:

"Integration" and "interoperability" are popular terms to sling around in smart grid circles. But the reality is not always as advertised. Dominion’s Edge platform, which is used primarily for conservation voltage reduction, can work with various smart metering platforms, but Silver Spring Networks has gone the next step to fully integrate the Edge software into its offering, which is called UtilityIQ Voltage Optimizer. ...