September 24th, 2009
Simon
From meterpedia submission
Information provided regarding second phase of an AMI/AMR project in provincial Thailand by the Provincial Electricity Authority.
In 2007 30,000 AMR meters were installed, with a further 5,000 AMI meters being installed in 2009.
All the meters are electricity EDMI meters and feature 2 way GPRS communications, Time of Use tariffing and Load Control/Load Management.
Samart Telecoms are the software provider.
More information:
http://www.pea.or.th
http://www.pea.co.th/th/eng/ – english version
Date provided by Samart Telecoms – pitipongj@samtel.samartcorp.com
September 7th, 2009
Simon
The Manila Electric Co (Meralco), which serves 4.3m customers in the Philippines, has started AMR pilot exercises as the first step towards a full smart grid.
Details on volumes or technologies are not available.
Coverage
Previously, Meralco has tested Itrons MV-90 xi software system with the assistance of KEPCO (Korean Electric Company).
September 5th, 2009
Simon
From googlemap
Malaysian electricity utility serving peninsular Malaysia. Programme to install 90,000 AMR Itron Enterprise Edition meters for Commercial and Industrial Customers.
From googlemap
20 month programme to install 400,000 Itron Centron meters for all residential and non-domestic electricity customers in the republic.
$250m project, starting mid November 2007 and running through to Nov 2009
Jan 08 Update – 5,000 meters installed, plan to complete all remaining installations by year end
From original googlemap entry
PECO, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation has deployed a Landis+Gyr/Cellnet AMR system.
Exercise to install 2.2 million meters (1.7m electricity & 500,000 gas). The contract was awarded in 1999. Deployement started immediately and was completed in 2003.
This system is a managed fee-for-service implementation. Landis+Gyr/Cellnet Owns the AMR Network, communication modules and ~60% of the electric meters
Beyond traditional meter reading benefits, the system is fully integrated to the OMS System to identify and manage outages. It is also used for Revenue Protection and Distribution System Asset Management purposes.
The system is a fixed RF network. The meter communication modules are 1-way, transmitting in regular periods.
The project was implemented by PECO, Cellnet and VSI.
Information provided by:
Glenn Pritchard, PECO AMI Strategy
glen.pritchard@exeloncorp.com
From google alert
The City of Savannah in Missouri (pop. 5000) has awarded a contract to Neptune Co. to replace the existing water metering system. The cost of the project is expected to be $410,000
From googlemap submission.
GEPCO has undertaken a 100 meter AMR trial using GPRS for Industrial Consumers.
It is being used for billing automation for high-end industry consumers (Electric Furnaces). The major drivers include operational cost saving, revenue protection and overall better customer service.
Infrastructure Cost (Meters & Servers): $ 35k
Recurring (Communication) Cost: $500
From the googlemap submissions.
ODS Croatia have over 22,000 Industrial customers with an AMR system from Iskraemeco, managed using an Oracle database.
