Echelon just announced that it has joined the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, an industry trade association. The coalition’s goal is to raise awareness of the benefits that demand-response systems and smart grid technologies can offer.

Echelon’s VP of Networked Energy Services (NES) Sales, Jim Andrus, commented on the significance of the coalition in a company press release:

"At a time when the Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of the nation’s