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Deployed AMI Value – Real World Examples. Scott Durham Vice President, Strategic Accounts Elster Integrated Solutions. Elster: The global leader in metering solutions. 170 years of experience providing solutions for Electric, Water, and Gas utilities Over $1.8Billion in annual revenue - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Deployed AMI Value –
Real World Examples
Scott DurhamVice President, Strategic Accounts
Elster Integrated Solutions
Elster: The global leader in metering solutions
170 years of experience providing solutions for Electric, Water, and Gas utilities
Over $1.8Billion in annual revenue 200 Million meters installed The largest provider of metering systems in the world –
Names you know American Meter – Gas – Now Elster American Meter ABB Electric Meters – Now Elster Electricity AMCO Water Meters – Now Elster AMCO Water
A leader in 115 markets and 38 countries $35Billion in assets 9,000 Worldwide employees Energy Axis – Complete electric, gas, water AMI system - Over
1 Million Smart Meters Deployed Raleigh, North Carolina, Headquarters of Elster Integrated
Solutions and Center of Excellence for AMI/AMR Technologies
Functionality % responses
Theft Detection 52%
Outage Monitoring 32%
Customer Energy Management 26%
Remote Disconnect 23%
Revenue Assurance 23%
Load Forecasting 19%
Time of Use (Residential) 16%
Time of Use (Commercial) 16%
Load Control 13%
Demand Response 10%
Asset Monitoring/Distribution Automation
6%
Distribution Generation 3%
Leak Detection 3%
AMI top functional choices, market comments…
Chartwell 2006 Industry Report
2007 Planning, development, test…
2008 $$$
2009+ $$$$
Energy Axis Network Showing Repeater Levels
Active Collecto
r
All 227 REX meters registered using 7 hops
(6 Repeater levels)
Alternate Collectors
All 227 REX meters registered using 5 hops
(4 Repeater levels)
Active Collecto
r
4000
ft.
2000
ft.
Demonstrated Demand Response…
Applications: In-Home displays Thermostat control Load Control Integrated Prepay
Open and Interoperable with multiple 3rd party vendors:
Riga Thermostat
Riga Appliance Control Module
Riga
4C Energy Solutions
2.4 GHz
EnergyAxis 900 Mhz Radio
Blueline433 MHz
Payback - EnergyAxis Remote Disconnect…
Fully integrated 200A disconnect switch No visual equipment signifying disconnect capability…
meets regulatory non-discrimination requirement Available demand limiting threshold Monitors load side voltage for safety and tampering
Alerts via MAS if there is load side voltage when switch is open
Integration with Prepayment metering Designed for safety
Switch will not be closed if load side voltage is detected
Leading the market in integrated disconnect deployment
AMI Business Case All values based on customer test deployment
Planned 175,000 Electric Meter Deployment, 40,000 with Disconnect Feature
IRR 53.49%
Payback 1.65 Years
Total Capital Investment $ 23,984,975
Average Yearly Savings/Cash Flow $ 14,560,322
7-Year Calculated Savings $101,922,253
AMI will reduce meter reading cost, charge offs, past due accts, theft, field service orders and increase responsiveness, cash flow and revenue while reading 99+% of meters every day.
AMI Business Case
Savings Not Included in the Analysis
TOU and/or load profiling
Reduction in estimated billing
Reduction in retraining meter readers
Reductions from inflation & population growth
Reduction in injuries to meter readers
A new one…the benefit of redirecting meter readers to collection
The benefit of DR capability…
The benefit of outage management/analysis…
Customer Experience
SRP – Phoenix, AZ
AMI in areas that have a high volume of service calls.
10k/mo., nearly 200k smart meters installed
90,000 remote disconnect meters
Over 150,000 remote service calls since system installed.
Completing over 1,000 remote disconnect/connects per week
Reduce meter reading costs.
Identifying outages and leaks.
Monitoring conservation.
Improve customer service.
Hourly water usage profile, water usage billed at tiered rate.
Pole mounted repeaters for water only areas
F’burg is a GREAT town…
Fredericksburg, TX – AMI
rollout for electric and water
Customer Experience
AVEC - AK
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative uses AMI to read meters in remote villages.
Villages are several hundreds of miles away and are not accessible in the winter.
It is impossible to manually read meters in the winter.
Meters are read remotely from office in Anchorage, Alaska.
AVEC is able to localize and react to power outages.
Customer Experience
CFE Fully integrated CIS generates
disconnect/connect actions
Greatly enhanced safety for employees
Significant revenue assurance improvement, theft losses down
Many meters not accessible
Reading meters in mountainous area via satellite phone
Customer Experience
High Rise Applications
Controlled Access
High Transient Rates
300 Electric Meters
300 Water Meters
300 Chilled Water Meters
Mesh communicates between floors
All read every day…
Solaire Tower in Orlando
Customer Experience
Coalition of Large Distributors (CLD) went through a lengthy procurement process in 2006
Toronto Hydro, Hydro Ottawa, Enersource, Horizon Utilities, PowerStream, Veridian
Selected 5 Vendors of Record
Each utility then selected a supplier and negotiated a contract
Elster signed contracts with 5 of the CLD utilities
2 ASP’s have Energy Axis systems installed offering reading services
230k Energy Axis smart meters delivered in 2006
Delivery at a rate of 40-50k per month in 2007
Expect to deliver 500 – 800k in 2008
Elster in Ontario
Thank You…
Contact Information:
Scott DurhamVP, Strategic Accounts
Elster Integrated Solutionsscott.durham@us.elster.com
241-912-0671
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