Seattle-based Calico Energy Services said today it has formed a partnership with Minnetonka, MN-based Digi International (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DGII]]) to market a new smart grid technology for utilities. The Calico system, which is being integrated into the Digi X-Grid platform, is supposed to help utilities get more detailed visibility into how residential and commercial customers are consuming energy. “Calico’s platform has the ability to automate residential and commercial device control, ensuring reductions in energy use and costs are permanent and dependable,” said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing for Digi, in a statement. Xconomy last wrote about Calico in August.
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Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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