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"By investing in the smart grid today, we are making a commitment to improving grid reliability, enhancing energy efficiency and providing consumers with an opportunity to better manage their energy use. Through the deployment of this system, IPL plans to build an enhanced energy system that will benefit our customers and community."

Ann Murtlow, President and CEO of IPL

Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of AES, provides retail electric service to more than 470,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Indianapolis, as well as portions of other Central Indiana communities surrounding Marion County. During its long history, IPL has supplied its customers with some of the lowest-cost, most reliable power in the country.

Silver Spring’s unified infrastructure delivers the ability to run multiple applications over a secure IP-based network. Silver Spring will support IPL through a large-scale Distribution Automation system enabling much faster outage detection and notification, improving fault location and isolation and increasing energy efficiency. Silver Spring will also deploy Advanced Metering for IPL’s large commercial and industrial customers and a portion of its residential customers.

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