Meter Data
Management
What’s the Big Picture
for Co-ops?
Mark Day, Vice President
Utility Integration Solutions, Inc.
January 22, 2010
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Not Long Ago
Total Consumption
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Today
Interval Data
(Multiple Channels)
Total Consumption
On Request Readings
Voltage
(Logging)
Demand
Tamper Detection
Forward Energy
Power Quality
Reverse Energy
Blink Counts
Net Energy
Momentary Outages
Sustained Outages
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AMI System Capability
C&I
(MV90)
MDMS
Main
Territory
Spot
Solution
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Meter Data Management Systems
Metering Systems
Customer
Information
System
SCADA
AMI System
Business
Intelligence
AMR System
Meter Data
Management
System
GIS
MV90
Outage
Management
System
Other
Demand
Response
Management
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Who Uses an MDM?
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Investigations & Billing Services?
Call Center?
Field Operations?
Credit and Collection?
Revenue Protection?
Meter Shop (inventory/testing)?
Customer Communications?
Special & Major Accounts Management?
Demand Response Team?
Rate Design?
Electric Reliability?
Electric and Gas System Planning?
Load Research?
Electric and Gas Distribution Operations?
Distribution Engineering?
Transmission System Operations?
Gas and Electric New Business?
Outage Coordination Group?
Telecom?
Or, are they just users of the data?
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MDM Functionality
Data Analytics
Validation, Editing,
& Estimation
Data
Aggregation
Web
Presentment
DR M&V
Reporting
MDM
DRM
Complex
Billing
Power Quality
Revenue
Protection
Provisioning
Single Point Integration
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Validation, Editing, & Estimation
• VEE engine must be flexible and configurable
• How are missing intervals repaired
• Can the system look at other events (outages)
to validate data
• Is there full data versioning?
• Can custom rulesets be applied to individual
or groups of meter?
• Estimation rules must be compliant with
regulatory mandates
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Complex Billing
• Applying TOU schedules to
individual meters and across
aggregated data
• Ability to support other complex
billing determinants
• System should have Rate
management for complex billing
(TOU/Demand/CPP/RTP)
Off-Peak
Shoulder
Peak
Shoulder
Off-Peak
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AMI Configuration/Provisioning
• Ability to perform:
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Interval Data Configuration
Demand Configuration
Demand Resets
Tamper/Diagnostic Flag Resets
Time Synchronization
• Provisioning:
• Meter Adds
• Meter Exchanges
• Meter Removals
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Load Forecasting and Planning
• Ability to analyze load data
in order to:
• Understand overall system
load
• Identify load problems
• Initiate proactive
maintenance
• Identify line loss (tamper)
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Operational Efficiencies
• Ability to support:
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Analytics/
Business
Intelligence
Customer
Self Service
Direct load control
Load following
Load reduction verification
Virtual disconnect
Remote disconnect
Pre-paid metering
Out-of-route reads
Move-in/Move-out reads
Meter Data Management System
(MDM/R)
System Management & Admin. Tools
Application Interface Adapters
Data Collection Adapters
Reports
Calculation Engine
Validation, Estimation, and Editing
Storage
(Configuration
& Usage)
MDM/R Applications
Aggregation, Revenue Protection,
Advanced Billing, Connect/Disconnect,
AMI Asset Mgt, CSR Tools
AMI Deployment Support
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Reporting Capabilities
• Reporting capabilities should be
part of vendor demonstrations
• Are there standard reports
available?
• Ability to build reports from reports
• Ability to create public/user private
reports
• Any additional report tool licensing
should be clearly specified
• Are reports generated from live
database or “datamart”
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Systems Integration
• MDM integration is crucial:
CIS
SCADA
• CIS
• Outage Management
• Energy Management Tools
• Integration and interoperability
standards are being defined
• No standards + New interface =
Higher integration costs
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MDMS
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System Administration
• System Maintenance tools
• Database Backups
• Cleanup
• Configurable Alerts (email)
• Service Notifications
• Problem Alarming
• User Management
• Individual rights and
privileges
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MDM and Demand Response
25
CALCULATED REDUCTION
Demand [kW]
• MDM is an integral
part of DR
Measurement and
Verification
• Will enable energy
market
participation
EVENT DAY DEMAND
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Hour Ending
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System Considerations
• Not just what the
system does
• Understand level of
user expertise
required
• How much user
training is required
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Partial List of Vendors
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Aclara
Ecologic Analytics
ElectSolve
EnergyICT
Hansen
Itron
NISC
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Northstar
Oracle
Primestone
SAS
SEDC
SiemenseMeter
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Early Adopters
• Umatilla Electric Cooperative, Oregon
• Delta Montrose Electric Association,
Colorado
• Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Texas
• Wabash Valley Power Association,
Indiana
• North Carolina Electric Membership
Corporation
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