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Metering International Edition 4
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PRI: Solving AMI interoperability
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Next May EU member states will have to determine how to satisfy the requirements of the End Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive 2006. Before then, the UK government should have concluded its consultation exercise to examine the options for improved meter reading and billing as well as understanding the costs and benefits of smart metering. In Australia, following a societal benefit study and stakeholder consultation, the Victorian State Government has mandated the rollout of smart meters over a four-year period commencing January 2009 to a mandated Minimum Functional Specification. The Australian Federal Government has commissioned its own study to determine a minimum national specification for smart meters (phase 1) followed by a cost benefit analysis for national rollout (phase 2).
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Leaders with vision - CIOs of the year honoured
By Warren Causey CIOs have become increasingly pivotal in helping utilities address unprecedented financial and regulatory challenges. They also are responsible with keeping technology aligned with strategic vision within their companies, and for expenditures averaging more than $...
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Horizontal Europian services standardization strategy
By Brian Such Having the remit to review the legislative, commercial, social and cultural influences on service delivery, the CEN Horizontal European Services Standardization Strategy (CHESSS) initiative was conceived as a means of researching the feasibility of taking a generic a...
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Recipe for success in customer switching
By Paul Grey But new research suggests the situation may have changed. According to the latest World Energy Retail Market Ranking report, which ranks world energy retail markets by the level of customer switching activity, Victoria in Australia is now the hottest energy retail mar...
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Pacific Gas & Electric Company creates model voluntary carbon offset programme
By Robert Parkhurst Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) ...
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Sensus delivers groundbreaking metering technology
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Keeping in the Sensus tradition for technological advances in the water metering market, the leading edge metrology for the OMNI meter is the “Floating Ball Technology” (FBT). The theory behind the FBT is a water measuring device that is virtually weightless in water and has no friction while it operates as the ball impeller floats. Because of this, the FBT is able to operate and measure at both very low and extremely high flow rates.
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Smart metering and other regulatory issues in Europe
By Sir John Mogg In 2006 ERGEG undertook a “Status Review Report on Smart Metering in European Countries” in order to identify the “state of the art” in automated meter reading and automated meter management systems in ERGEG member countries. In the report,...
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Mastering the knowledge mantra - knowledge solutions that benefit all stakeholders
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KLG Systel’s business model is a blend of industry domain knowledge and core IT/IS technology from industry leading partners. This model addresses the needs of a very wide spectrum of customers across diverse industries. Numbering over 2,000, KLG Systel’s customers include Top 500 Indian companies (government and private sector) and Indian Arms of Fortune 500 companies. Some of KLG Systel’s customers are Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd, Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd, Larsen & Toubro, Oil & Natural Gas Commission, Tata Steel, NTPC, BHEL, Punj Llyod, Reliance Petroleum, Unilever, British Gas, Reliance Industries and Nestle.
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Dynamic customer systems integration - the promises and challenges
By Joe Hughes To get there will require cooperative work with utilities, regulators, researchers, vendors and service providers alike. The open systems and standards necessary to achieve this vision is a critical enabling system. THE PROMISES
In additi...
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Prepayment in utility meters - easier than ever before
By Jean-Christophe Doucet New generations of prepayment utility meters still have a slot, but it is a smart card slot, suitable to accept a generic chip-based payment card such as many people now have in their wallet. Europay, Mastercard and Visa have paved the way for chip-based ...
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Prepayment in Rwanda: The next phase
By Muyange Yves Electrogaz has had a policy to introduce prepayment electricity metering since 1995. The first prepayment system, which was introduced in July 1995, comprised 500 single phase prepayment meters with magnetic cards. In the second phase of the project between Februar...
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Medium voltage communications - Reality or myth?
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By Andrei Panchuk and Alexei Rusanov The MV system as well as the LV is a part of the utility’s infrastructure. Thus, the use of this medium offers a range of advantages to the utility: the costs for maintenance are already included in the budget, there are no additional fees for its use, and finally, the infrastructure already exists – it just waits to be exploited. Within the framework of an AMI solution, there are several basic requirements for communications channels, including reliability, ability to support high data rates, ability to transmit information over long distances and, not least, cost efficiency. If a particular medium satisfies these requirements, then it can be adapted for the use in the AMI communication network.
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Automatic meter reading in EPS-Elektrosrbija - Present state and future plans
By Bojan Lazarevic Previously on 23 July 2004, the parliament of Serbia had adopted the Energy Law and immediately after the Energy Agency was established. The Energy Law is fundamental for restructuring Serbia’s energy sector and integrating it into the European community. ...
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Manage energy better
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By Antti Aumo Landis+Gyr now covers the entire utility metering value chain from in-house customer applications and the world’s best energy meters to data management and seamless IT integration. To celebrate the global Landis+Gyr Group, its brand has been renewed both in terms of what is offered – and how it looks. WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
About a year ago Enermet, Landis+Gyr and meter2cash were brought together to create one pan-European advanced metering and load management company. Globally, the Landis+Gyr Group is further strengthened by the expertise of Cellnet+Hunt and Ampy.
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