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Project to install 600,000 meters by end of 2012.

Total cost of $190m, with $92m from federal funding.

CMP are part of the Iberdrola group

Provided direct by Horizon.

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Utility serving 231,000 customers in Hamilton and St. Catharines.

AMI: Elster EnergyAxis System

As of January 2009, 99% of all residental and the majority of small business customers have had a smart meter installed. 100% deployment planned by end of 2010.

Time of Use tariffs were implemented to a pilot community of 10,000 customers in December 2009, with full implementation to TOU rates to be completed by Q1 2011.

Update provided by Horizon

Press Release

The municipal water board in San Francisco has selected Aclara to provide an AMI solution for its’ 170,000 retail water customers.

The STAR Network system will send hourly consumption data to the SFPUC four times daily. Currently, most residential water meters in San Francisco are read once every two months and commercial meters are read monthly, with meter readers required to individually visit and read each meter manually. This labor intensive and infrequent process makes it difficult to detect silent leaks, which can result in significant water loss and high water/sewer bills for customers.

From google alert

Electricity distributor SP AusNet yesterday announced its partners in the rollout of more than 680,000 ‘smart meters’ to homes and small businesses across eastern and north eastern Victoria.

SP AusNet’s smart meter rollout is expected to commence over the coming months, which will see over 680,000 meters installed in Victorian homes by December 2013; with roughly 40,000 meters to be installed by the end of June next year.

Independent analysis performed for the Victorian Department of Primary Industries has shown that the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program will deliver net benefits to Victoria of up to $700 million over the next 20 years.

Partnering with SP AusNet in the AMI program are: Landis+Gyr, GE and GridNet, UXC Limited, Electrix, Motorola, Unwired, eMeter, Logica, Accenture, Enterprise Business Services, and Geomatic Technologies.

WiMAX technology will be used to communicate electricity consumption from the smart meters back to SP Ausnet. WiMAX, (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data at speeds of up to 10 Mbit/s without the need for cables.

From newswires

Press Release

Impementation of Aclara TWACS PLC system for 90,000 residential and commercial customers by national electricity utility. Order includes option to purchase 90,000 more units if required. Main driver for implementation is to prevent non-technical losses.

From googlemap

SRP serves over 925,000 customers with electricity and water in metropolitan Pheonix.

Originally were deploying a low power radio (900 MHz) to concentrator solution based upon Elster’s Electricity AMR infrastructure. 300,000 smart electricity meters installed as at July 2008. Running at 10k per month.
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In early 2009, Landis+Gyr won a $52m contract to supply 300,000 meters to SRP as part of a three year contract.

Landis+Gyr said the deal expands Salt River’s M-Power prepay program with the delivery of 300,000 AMPY Pay-Smart meters and related communications solutions.

Landis+Gyr said the AMPY Pay-Smart system can be configured to operate in one of four different modes — credit, credit with in-home display, wireless prepayment or critical peak pricing-demand response.

“The flexibility we build into our solutions enables this one-to-one approach when utilities define and manage the delivery of energy,” said Jonathan Elmer, CEO of Landis+Gyr Ampy Solutions.

“Together, Landis+Gyr and SRP share a vision of easily managed and adaptable business models which support consumer choice and empowerment, and we are proud that SRP has chosen to expand their relationship with us as their solutions partner.”

Landis+Gyr said Salt River’s M-Power customers, on average, experience an annual reduction in household energy consumption of about 12 percent, or 1,750 kilowatt-hours. More than 59,000 Salt River customers currently use M-Power, and another 10,000 customers per year are expected to be added during each of the next five years, according to Landis+Gyr.
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From notes

VKG Elektrivõrgud OÜ is the 2nd largest distributor in Estonia, serving 10% of the 1.34m population of the country.

Following pilots in 2000, and the introduction of retail competition in 2002, VKG Elektrivõrgud OÜ have undertaken an AMI solution for 35,000 customers in and around Narva.

The solution has been provided by the ADD group of Moldova. Its’ ADDAX IMS solution uses PLC to backhaul equipment in MV/HV substations, supports in home displays and prepayment.

From various sources

Vattenfall completed the installation of 850,000 electricity meters in 2009.

600,000 of these were Echelon NES PLC meters installed by Telvent, who have also provided the enterprise software.

From Metering Europe Conference

The Italian Authority for Electriciy and Gas (AEEG) decreed in October 2008 (AEEG 155/08) that 100% of Commercial and Industrial and 80% of  residential gas meters should be capable of remote management. This follows an earlier statement of intent in July 2006.

AEEG defined the high level requirements, meter replacement schedule and penalties for non-compliance. For the largest gas meters, >G40, if 100% of sites are not upgraded to smart by the end of 2010, each site will attract an annual penalty of 54 Euros.

At a residential level there are phased targets for roll out:

- 2012 – 5% – 4 Euro penalty per meter per year

- 2013 – 20% – 4 Euro

- 2014 – 40% – 4 Euro

- 2015 – 60% – 4 Euro

- 2016 – 80% – 4 Euro

The high level requirements include use of open standards, inteoperability for the meter and concentrator and the following detailed requirements:

• Measurement of 3 configurable tariff bands
• Remote upgrade of software
• End to end encryption and authentication
• Time synchronisation
• For domestic meters:
• consumption will be measured on a daily basis
• all will feature a valve capable of local and remote control
• meters will support the use of a local display unit, or alternatively, the customer can access their data via the internet
• all will feature temperature compensation
• pressure compensation is not mandatory

The Italian gas metering industry looked at the opportunity to link their meters to the existing ENEL Telegestore solution, but as this uses proprietary protocols, it was not seen as a valid solution, and the industry is seeking a gas-only solution. AEEG has guaranteed cost neutrality.

Are anticipating a need to swap the batteries in gas meters once in the 15 year asset life.

Have found issues with pilot exercise in locating the concentrators – very expensive to make use of cellular masts.

Detailed techinical specification work is being undertaken by the national standards body UNI and Comitano Italiano Gas. Two working groups, looking at system and meter, have been established. The specification (UNI/TS 11291) has been split into 9 parts, with gas meters classified into three groups:

- above G40

- G10 to G40

- below G10

DLMS is being proposed across the gas metering market.

The residentail radio standard (meter to concentrator) is being considered, likely to be subject to a significant field test, after a desktop exercise using a 22 point checklist failed to determine the most appropriate solution. All of the technologies work, but Wireless M-Bus and Wavenis scored highest during the evaluation.