Area Descriptions:
Page Description - this page contains information related to metering (AMI,
AMR) and Meter Data Management (MDM).
Metering:
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure: What Regulators Need to Know About
Its Value to Residential Customers - National Regulatory Research
Institute. February 13, 2008 - This report began as an effort to understand
who has the better argument: those opposed to “advanced metering
infrastructure” (AMI) as a demand response tool, and those supporting AMI
for the same reason…We provide regulators with a general framework for
evaluating an electric utility’s request for recovery of the costs of
implementing an advanced metering infrastructure. We do return to, and
examine in depth, the disputes between consumer advocates who oppose AMI and
environmentalists, and utilities who support AMI. We place these
disagreements in the context of a model for analyzing the overall costs and
benefits of AMI…We introduce a recurring theme: AMI is one way, but only one
way, for a utility to offer time-varying utility prices and induce demand
response. Proponents and opponents of AMI agree on this point -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Metering/Advanced-Metering-Infrastructure.pdf
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Advanced Metering Initiatives and
Residential Feedback Programs: A Meta-Review for Household
Electricity-Saving Opportunities - A variety of new feedback
initiatives – including real-time Web-based or in-home feedback devices and
enhanced billing approaches – are making energy resources visible to
residential consumers throughout the
United States (and many other developed countries). These initiatives are
opening the door to potential energy savings that, on average, have reduced
individual household electricity consumption 4 to 12% across our
multi-continent sample. In so doing, feedback is proving a critical first
step in engaging and empowering consumers to thoughtfully manage their
energy resources. On a national scale, our estimates indicate that feedback
programs for the residential sector might generate electricity savings that
range from as little as 0.4% to more than 6% of total residential
electricity consumption. If broadly implemented throughout the United States
using well-designed programs, residential sector feedback programs could
provide the equivalent of 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity savings
annually by 2030. At this scale, such tools will enable aggregate
residential sector energy savings that, in turn, provide a substantial
contribution to U.S. energy security and climate goals as well as consumer
pocketbook savings. 2010-06.
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Metering/Advanced-Metering-Initiatives.pdf
- The Costs and Benefits of Smart
Meters for Residential Customers - 38 pages - 2011-07-01 - Despite
this rapid growth in the home energy management space (almost 100 percent
growth is expected over the next 3-4 years according to Greentech Media),
and the significant energy management opportunity that is unleashed by the
combination of smart meters and smart home energy management devices,
concerns about the adverse effects of smart meters continue to dominate
conversations among regulators, consumer advocates, and electric utilities.
With an eye toward resolving some of these controversies, this paper
presents a framework for quantifying the costs and benefits of smart meters
from a wide variety of perspectives across a range of electric utility and
customer types. It shows how the magnitude of both costs and benefits might
vary across different types of electric utilities and different types of
customers. In the paper, we allow utility types to vary in terms of their
load shapes; supply mix, including renewable energy and other energy
sources; cost structures; current metering technology; and customer base.
Furthermore, customers vary in terms of the level of their engagement in
energy management.
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Metering/Costs-Benefits-Smart.pdf
- The Costs and Benefits of Smart
Meters for Residential Customers - 38 pages - 2011-07-01 - Despite
this rapid growth in the home energy management space (almost 100 percent
growth is expected over the next 3-4 years according to Greentech Media),
and the significant energy management opportunity that is unleashed by the
combination of smart meters and smart home energy management devices,
concerns about the adverse effects of smart meters continue to dominate
conversations among regulators, consumer advocates, and electric utilities.
With an eye toward resolving some of these controversies, this paper
presents a framework for quantifying the costs and benefits of smart meters
from a wide variety of perspectives across a range of electric utility and
customer types. It shows how the magnitude of both costs and benefits might
vary across different types of electric utilities and different types of
customers. In the paper, we allow utility types to vary in terms of their
load shapes; supply mix, including renewable energy and other energy
sources; cost structures; current metering technology; and customer base.
Furthermore, customers vary in terms of the level of their engagement in
energy management.
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Metering/Costs-Benefits-Smart.pdf
- Exploring Aggregated Net Metering in Arizona - 2011-01 -
This report is intended to provide the Arizona Corporation Commission
(Commission) with Commission Staff’s (Staff) recommendations regarding the Commission’s potential implementation of aggregated net metering (ANM). Keyes & Fox
LLP assisted Staff in preparing this report. In order to do so, Keyes & Fox reviewed activity
related to ANM in several states.
Appendix B provides a table summarizing that state
research. Keyes & Fox also reviewed parties’ oral comments made during the
Commission’s September 1, 2010 ANM workshop, as well as parties’ related written
comments -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/States/Arizona/Exploring-Net-Metering.pdf
Net Metering:
- The 21st Century Electric Utility -
Positioning for a
Low-Carbon Future - This report identifies five key elements of a 21st century
electric utility business model and makes specific recommendations to utilities
as they transition to a low-carbon future. It is by no means the final word on
this complex and constantly evolving subject. Rather it is
a starting point for utilities, policymakers, regulators, investors, analysts,
and advocates to consider the utility decisions and behaviors best suited to
helping us realize the energy
future we all want – a future that, as the report says, “minimizes cost, risk
and environmental impact, and maximizes opportunity, options and societal
benefit - 2010-07 -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Carbon/Ceres-21st-Century-Utility.pdf
See discussion at page 49.