PCS UtiliData awarded contract with Hydro Ottawa Limited

May 27, 2005

Hydro Ottawa Limited has awarded PCS UtiliData a contract to provide an AdaptiVolt™ Infrastructure Survey for its Centrepointe Substation. This contract was awarded through the VoltR marketing and sales channel. The Infrastructure Survey comprises a detailed verification of substation equipment and its distribution components to establish the work required to deploy an AdaptiVolt™ system. The survey includes an analysis of end-of-line locations to determine optimized voltage regulation levels, an examination of potential location for capacitors to evaluate the costs and benefits of their use, and the determination of expected energy savings and economic impact that would result from the deployment of an AdaptiVolt™ system at the Centrepointe substation.

MegaComm Industries of Toronto, under a VoltR subcontract will conduct a Communications Propagation Survey in coordination with the AdaptiVolt™ Infrastructure Survey. The Communication Propagation Survey of the Centrepointe substation and the geographical region served by its distribution infrastructure is aimed at ensuring the signal integrity of the AdaptiVolt™ closed-loop feedback system. As such, it will identify all requirements that will ensure a reliable, flexible and expandable communications infrastructure to effectively support the AdaptiVolt™ system functionality.