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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.

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As a result of attaching conditions to the federal stimulus grants, the US Department of Energy has effectively created functional standards for smart metering:

• Record Usage at least hourly (enabling dynamic pricing)
• Send Usage to the utility at least daily (enabling Web Portals)
• Include a HAN interface for displays, thermostats etc.
• Have a disconnect switch
• Sensors for power outages and voltage levels

Obviously, these are all electricity standards.

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Echelon Corporation has entered into a technology licensing agreement with ELO Sistemas Eletronicos (ELO) under which ELO will develop and market smart electricity meters based on Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) smart grid infrastructure solution.

The parties intend to initially focus on the Brazilian and select Latin American smart meter markets, representing over 100 million electricity meters. ELO is the leading supplier of digital electricity meters in the Brazilian market, with an estimated 40% market share.

In October of 2009 Brazil’s energy regulator, Aneel, announced tentative plans for a nationwide rollout of smart metering, expecting to replace approximately 63 million electricity meters in the country with smart meters by 2021.

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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.

The latest utility to commit to using smart grid technology from Silver Spring Networks is American Electric Power (AEP). Silver Spring will be part of the company’s gridSMART initiative, which is being engineered by Indiana Michigan Power and AEP Ohio across regions in Indiana and northeast central Ohio. AEP hopes to network 5 million homes and businesses in its operating territories over the next six years.

From newswires

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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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