Carina Technology is an information technology firm that provides Energy Intelligence (EI™) Solutions primarily to the U.S. utility and energy industries. Carina enables energy providers to manage operations more efficiently and create new revenue streams through real-time hardware and software applications such as interactive GIS, Energy Data Management, prepaid energy, remote meter reading, demand response, and power quality management. EI™ is centralized and designed to fully collect, store, and interpret energy data to provide interactive visibility for grid management. To maximize interoperability, EI™ utilizes open standards, integration into multiple utility operating systems over a variety of communications infrastructures, and database-driven architecture. Carina also specializes in building and integrating custom software interfaces to existing CIS, GIS, and OMS systems. Learn more about Carina at www.carinatek.com . Today, Carina Technology differentiates itself by providing its customers with energy management solutions that operate in real time. Demand response capabilities, analytics, monitoring, and measurement and verification services are available on demand to meet utility needs whenever they arise. Carina's modular hardware design allows utilities at all stages of technological development to benefit from rapidly changing communication technologies while staying inherently protected from becoming obsolete or incurring stranded costs. Carina's firmware and software ensure that utilities have real time two-way communication to adjust to changing grid conditions with Carina's professional support team helping at any level needed by the utilities. Carina, with its demand flexibility and CarinaPoint™ control software, can help utilities navigate through the new Future Grid. Carina is the first company to offer the Carina intelligence in a new Vaughn grid enabled water heater as well as retrofitting almost any water heater.