Imtech ICT wins Cisco Partner Award for Smart Grid

Capelle aan den IJssel, 12 April 2012

During the Cisco annual partner dinner, Imtech ICT received the Partner Award for Smart Grid. In giving this Partner Award, Cisco expressed its appreciation of the commitment that Imtech ICT demonstrated in the field of Smart Grid in the Cisco financial year of 2011.

Fred Gerritse, Director of Partner Organisation at Cisco Netherlands: “As a European technical services provider and ICT partner, Imtech occupies a special position for Cisco. Thanks to its powerful market position, Imtech is able to respond well to the increasingly important role that technology plays in solving economic and social issues. Imtech has a practically unique technological services portfolio in which the technical core competencies of electrical engineering, ICT and mechanical engineering are combined into distinctive total solutions, including in the field of Smart Grids. This makes Imtech a strategic partner for Cisco, and thus the rightful winner of the Cisco Smart Grid Partner Award.”

René van der Bruggen, CEO Imtech: 'Over time decentralised and local generation of energy in Europe is giving rise to multi-energy distribution, where power is being generated and purchased at a multitude of locations simultaneously. It is also expected that electric transport will be introduced on a large scale in Europe. All electric vehicles will need to be recharged, for which a wide diversity of recharging technology is available. These developments increase the complexity of the energy infrastructure and networks significantly. If energy distribution is to function without problems in the future, then substantial changes are needed to this infrastructure. Smart grids are the solution for this. Their market is reaching maturity slowly but surely. From a strategic position, Imtech wants to assume a leading position in this area.'