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Automated Metering (AMI - MDM)
Our AMI solutions leverage AMI Meters, Communications and Meter Data Management to transform and radically improve:- Customer Management
- Asset Management
- Energy Management
Customer Management
- Read all meters automatically and remotely at designated intervals (e.g., hourly)
- Support TOU rates, CPP and RTP
- Eliminate estimated bills and adjustments
- Increase billing accuracy
- Synchronize Summary Billing (no meter cycle constraints)
- Provide two-way communications (i.e., listen and talk)
- Automatic outage detection
- Optimize dispatching of Troubleman / line crews
- Restoration notification
- Tampering and theft detection capabilities
- Implement Pre-Pay with ePayment and AMI automatic disconnect / connect capabilities
- Gateway to Home Area Network (HAN)
Key Benefits
- Eliminates manual meter reading expense
- Reduces cost per read
- Improves customer service
- Increases customer satisfaction
- Reduces billing exceptions and cost
- Reduces unbilled Revenue
- Reduces Call Center labor and telephone expense
- Reduces Field Service labor and equipment expense
- Reduces theft detection expense
- Significantly reduces cost to serve with Pre-Pay capabilities
- Significantly reduces bad debt loss
Asset Management
- Use actual versus estimated loads for distribution asset analysis and design
- Use automated tools to improve design quality and to enforce engineering standards
- Specify optimal sizing of transformers and distribution components by balancing cost, reliability and safety considerations
- Distribute circuit monitoring and exception reporting
- Ability to share infrastructure for distribution control and automation
- Monitoring power quality
Key Benefits
- Improves design quality
- Improves design cycle time
- Improves load management
- Improves asset utilization
- Improves reliability
- Improves SAIDI, SAIFI and CAIDI
- Reduces unnecessary capital equipment costs and field expense
- Reduces frequency and duration of forced outages
- Increases customer satisfaction
- Increases ROI
Energy Management
- Provide actual hourly load to increase forecasting accuracy
- Establish energy usage baseline
- Monitor actual energy usage
- Identify opportunities for energy savings
- Measure energy usage reduction
- Calculate energy savings
- Optimize operations and energy usage tradeoffs
- Measure effectiveness of energy saving programs
- Facilitate voluntary/ involuntary (load control) response to high energy prices
- Facilitate shift in energy usage to reduce system peak
- Verify energy supplier invoices
- Identify billing discrepancies / overcharges
- Recover billing overcharges
Key Benefits
- Reduces variance between day-ahead energy forecasts and actual energy requirements
- Reduces variance between day-ahead energy purchases and actual next day energy purchase requirements
- Reduces costly, hour-ahead energy purchases
- Peak capacity reduction (peak-shaving)
- Reduces energy supply and T&D capital investment requirements
- Reduces energy generation and procurement expense
- Reduces overall purchased power expense
- Improves reliability
- Increases generation and T&D ROI
- Increases customer satisfaction
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