Deployed AMI Value –
Real World Examples
Scott Durham
Vice President, Strategic Accounts
Elster Integrated Solutions
Elster: The global leader in metering solutions
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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
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American Meter – Gas – Now Elster American
Meter
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ABB Electric Meters – Now Elster Electricity
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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
AMI top functional choices, market comments…
Chartwell 2006 Industry Report
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%
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2007 Planning,
development, test…
2008 $$$
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2009+
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Energy Axis Network Showing Repeater Levels
All 227 REX meters
registered
using
5 hops
All 227 REX
meters
(4
Repeater
levels)
registered using 7 hops
(6 Repeater levels)
2000 ft.
Active
Collecto
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Alternate Collectors
Active
Collecto
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Demonstrated Demand Response…
Applications:
 In-Home displays
 Thermostat control
 Load Control
 Integrated Prepay
Open and Interoperable with multiple 3rd party
vendors:
EnergyAxis
900 Mhz Radio
Riga
2.4 GHz
Riga Appliance
Control Module
4C Energy Solutions
Blueline
433 MHz
Riga Thermostat
Payback - EnergyAxis Remote Disconnect…
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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
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All values based on customer test deployment
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Planned 175,000 Electric Meter Deployment, 40,000 with Disconnect
Feature
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IRR
53.49%
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Payback
1.65 Years
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Total Capital Investment
$ 23,984,975
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Average Yearly Savings/Cash Flow
$ 14,560,322
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7-Year Calculated Savings
$101,922,253
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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
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TOU and/or load profiling
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Reduction in estimated billing
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Reduction in retraining meter readers
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Reductions from inflation & population growth
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Reduction in injuries to meter readers
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A new one…the benefit of redirecting meter readers to collection
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The benefit of DR capability…
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The benefit of outage management/analysis…
Customer Experience
SRP – Phoenix, AZ
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AMI in areas that have a high volume
of service calls.
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10k/mo., nearly 200k smart meters
installed
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90,000 remote disconnect meters
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Over 150,000 remote service calls
since system installed.
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Completing over 1,000 remote
disconnect/connects per week
Customer Experience
Fredericksburg, TX – AMI
rollout for electric and water
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Reduce meter reading costs.
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Identifying outages and leaks.
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Monitoring conservation.
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Improve customer service.
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Hourly water usage profile, water usage
billed at tiered rate.
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Pole mounted repeaters for water only
areas
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F’burg is a GREAT town…
Customer Experience
AVEC - AK
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Alaska Village Electric Cooperative uses
AMI to read meters in remote villages.
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Villages are several hundreds of miles
away and are not accessible in the winter.
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It is impossible to manually read meters in
the winter.
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Meters are read remotely from office in
Anchorage, Alaska.
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AVEC is able to localize and react to power
outages.
Customer Experience
CFE
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Fully integrated CIS generates
disconnect/connect actions
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Greatly enhanced safety for employees
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Significant revenue assurance improvement,
theft losses down
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Many meters not accessible
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Reading meters in mountainous area via
satellite phone
Customer Experience
High Rise Applications
Solaire Tower in Orlando
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Controlled Access
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High Transient Rates
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300 Electric Meters
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300 Water Meters
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300 Chilled Water Meters
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Mesh communicates between floors
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All read every day…
Elster in Ontario
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Coalition of Large Distributors (CLD) went through a lengthy
procurement process in 2006
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Toronto Hydro, Hydro Ottawa, Enersource, Horizon Utilities,
PowerStream, Veridian
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Selected 5 Vendors of Record
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Each utility then selected a supplier and negotiated a contract
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Elster signed contracts with 5 of the CLD utilities
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2 ASP’s have Energy Axis systems installed offering reading
services
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230k Energy Axis smart meters delivered in 2006
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Delivery at a rate of 40-50k per month in 2007
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Expect to deliver 500 – 800k in 2008
Thank You…
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Contact Information:
Scott Durham
VP, Strategic Accounts
Elster Integrated Solutions
scott.durham@us.elster.com
241-912-0671