Dialight BLP Receives Major New Order for Utili...

FARMINGDALE, New Jersey, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --

    Dialight BLP reports that Elster Electricity, Raleigh, N.C., has placed a
new order for 200,000 of its PowerPulse(TM) 200-amp disconnect/reconnect load
switch for use in their REX2(R) smart electric meters.



    Elster selected the PowerPulse 200-amp switch because of its robust
design and proven field experience. The PowerPulse switch design allows for
over 50,000 mechanical operations and places the switch fully in an open or
closed state. Elster has shipped over 150,000 AMI meters with full service
control switches to customers who are actively operating the function. The
service control feature gives utilities the ability to remotely disconnect
and reconnect electric service to consumers, also enabling tokenless
prepayment and demand-limiting capability.



    "Elster is dedicated to providing solutions that exceed our customer
expectations," remarked David G. Hart, Elster's senior vice president of
products and quality. "Customer demand for our smart meters with an
integrated service control switch is just one of the reasons Elster has the
largest deployment of two-way mesh AMI applications in the world. We
currently have 150,000 smart disconnect meters working at various utilities,
and based on current demand have just ordered 200,000 more control switches
from our supplier, Dialight BLP."



    For more information, www.blpcomp.com or contact Rizwan Ahmad, Dialight
BLP, Farmingdale, N.J.; phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; 
e-mail: [e-mail].



About Dialight BLP

    A subsidiary of Dialight plc (FTSE: DIA.L), Dialight BLP specializes in
the design and manufacture of switching solutions for residential gas and
electricity service applications. Its extensive experience in Europe, North
America and Africa has made the company the market leader in providing both
standard and custom connect/disconnect devices. Designed for maximum safety
and with over five million disconnect devices in services, Dialight BLP
switching solutions are used extensively in a range of residential metering
and control application sin the utility industry. www.blpcomp.com.



Web site: http://www.blpcomp.com