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Automation Insight
May 2008
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KEMA's Utility of the Future: Getting from Here to There
The United States faces unprecedented short and long-term challenges in meeting the country’s growing need for energy. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), forecasts an annual growth rate of 1.5 percent for electric power demand for the next 22 years - leading to a 40-percent increase over current levels by 2030.
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What's Happening Behind the Meter?
As many utilities examine and evaluate the benefits of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), there is a natural focus to place greater emphasis on tangible values for information and control that are primarily meter-centric. Normally, these areas include remote meter reading, interval consumption information, energy demand, power outage and restoration, tamper, theft, service reconnect/disconnect, power quality. However, as more robust communications systems are being deployed to support these “smart” meters, there are additional benefit areas that can accrue from services that are behind the meter, such as information and management of devices connected to a Home Area Network (HAN).
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Failure Analysis Is A Continuous Process: Tools That Can Be Utilized
An essential part of any AMI business case analysis is the failure rates and replacement factors assumed for the AMI meters and system components. Over the 20-year lifetime typically used for AMI systems, swings in estimated percentage rates for component replacements and failures can have dramatic effects on the estimated paybacks and net present values (NPV) that have been assumed in the analysis and accepted by program stakeholders.
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Did You Hear?
Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, has selected Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management as part of the utility’s AMI pilot.
Itron Inc. has signed an agreement with CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s electric transmission and distribution utility for deployment of OpenWay® AMItechnology in the Houston area.
The ZigBee Alliance announced the official certification of 19 products using the ZigBee® Smart Energy public application profile.
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About Automation Insight
Automation Insight is a complimentary monthly publication designed specifically for the utility industry and those serving the utility industry. For comments or suggestions on future article topics, please contact Will McNamara, Managing Editor, will.mcnamara@us.kema.com, tel. 781.534.8621.
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