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In April 2021, NTCS Energy started supporting NV Energiebedrijven Suriname (EBS) in developing strategies and roadmaps for AMI deployment in Suriname. EBS requested us to review their long-term energy strategy and to develop a sustainable smart grid strategy to move to a more distributed, resilient, and flexible grid.
As moving from defining an AMI strategy to a full implementation demands a lot of organizations, we supported EBS’s leadership team and operational managers from defining the strategies up to selecting a suitable solution, technologies, and vendor. We executed a thorough analysis of Suriname’s current electricity infrastructure and BEL’s systems and processes. We collaboratively defined the strategy and developed a high-level solution model and business case. The business case included an overview of quantifiable and non-quantifiable benefits on one side and cost components on the other. Eventually, we guided EBS throughout the entire procurement process by conducting stakeholder interviews, guiding the Request for Information (RFI/RFQ) and Request for Proposals (RFP) processes, executing high-level assessments of the RFP responses, and supporting the decision process to select a preferred vendor. Now, all arrangements are made to start the AMI deployment in Suriname in the very near future.