Monday, March 15, 2010

GE veteran takes over as new CEO of smart grid company

Smart grid company Trilliant has landed a new CEO – Andrew White, a 30-year veteran of General Electric who most recently headed GE's New Energy Ventures.

Trilliant recently announced that White was taking over the top job from former CEO Bill Vogel, who founded the company and will remain as a senior vice president of strategic development.

As a provider of communications gear for about 200 utilities including Ontario, Canada's Hydro One, Trilliant is among a number of companies helping utilities network millions of smart meters being deployed across the continent.

Trilliant also makes hardware and software for managing in-home energy usage, a business that could see a lot of competition from startups including Tendril Networks, Energate and Onzo, as well as potential competition from major appliance and building automation control giants.

Trilliant makes communications gear that goes inside smart meters made by other companies – which means that it has a business relationship with GE, as well as other smart meter makers like Itron, Landis+Gyr and Sensus.

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