Multifunction
Electricity Meter
One Meter for Revenue, Monitoring, and Power Quality
The GE kV2™ meter is designed to meet your metering needs in a rapidly changing world where
deregulation blurs the lines between Utility, Industrial, Commercial, and Substation metering. In a
world where meters now need to answer new and vital questions
for your business, the kV2 moves beyond revenue metering to
real time instrumentation, true power quality monitoring, and
real cost of service measurement.
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Revenue Accuracy (DC immune)
Installation Verification and Tamper Detection Tools
Coincident Demand Measures
Power Quality Monitor and Analyzer
AMR System Tool
20 Channel Recording
Totalizer (4 external inputs)
4 Quadrant Industrial or Substation Measures
Per Phase AC Instrumentation (amps, volts, and frequency)
Functional Upgradability
The kV2 Meter provides easy and powerful functional upgrading with a unique combination of option
boards and “softswitches”. The kV2 starts as a bi-directional, coincident demand meter with 5
demand measures, “Real-Time Pricing”, and “Real Time” Data monitoring:
Soft Switches add:
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Time Of Use
Power Factor, kvar and kVA Measures
Recording (4-Channel) and self reading
Expanded Recording (20-Channel)
Per Phase Measurement
By Quadrant Measurements
Instrument Transformer Correction
Transformer and Line Loss Compensation
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Revenue Guard Plus
Call In During Outage Reporting
Security and Power Quality Event Log
Advanced Power Quality Measures
Fast Voltage Monitor and Log (1 cycle)
Harmonic Analysis/Waveform Capture
Totalization
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Telephone Modem
RS-232 Communications
3 Phase Power Supply
Option Boards add:
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Pulse Outputs
Load Control
Real Time Pricing input
External Inputs
Power Quality Compliance Monitoring
The kV2 has the advanced power quality tools you need to measure the quality of power delivered.
The kV2 can also be used to measure compliance to Power Quality agreements or gather data to
help set Power Quality Requirements. These tools include:
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Programmable sag and swell monitor that logs: voltage sag and swell duration down to
1 cycle, minimum or maximum voltage, coincident current, and Date and Time of occurrence.
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Voltage and Current THD per phase, TDD (Total Demand Distortion), Distortion Power Factor,
Displacement Power Factor, Distortion kVA, and Distortion kVAh (all recordable)
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Harmonic analysis (MeterMate 3.0 plots odd and even harmonic magnitudes)
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Programmable diagnostics for voltage imbalance, distortion, current imbalance, reversed polarity, high
neutral current. These events may be logged, close an alert, and cause a call-in.
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Meter outage log and call-in during outage reporting.
Advanced Recording Options
The kV2’s R (4 channel) and X (20 channel) Softswitch enabled recording options add recording to
any kV2 meter without adding any additional hardware. The kV2 will record any of the quantities
that it measures including voltage, current, energy, apparent power, reactive power, distortion
power, power factor, THD, TDD, DPF, and … (Pick from over 272 measurements, many with and
without harmonics).
The kV2 also adds new recording options. In addition to traditional interval recording, the kV2
records the maximum, minimum, or last value in a recording interval. With the kV2’s 20 channel
recorder you can record the minimum, maximum, and average (using V2h and I2h) voltage and
current per phase and still have room for kWh delivered and received.
Real Time Instrumentation
Using the kV2’s optical port or one of it’s remote communications options, you can watch what is
happening at the metering site, right now. Using MeterMate 3.0, you can watch real-time changes
in voltage, current, frequency, THD, TDD and the harmonic components of current and voltage.
Revenue Guard Plus
The kV2 Revenue Guard option board powers the meter even when a phase voltage is lost, any
available L-L or L-N voltage will be used. Revenue Guard Plus adds to that capability, it is a
Softswitch enabled option that preserves billing integrity when a phase voltage is lost on a 4 wire
wye service by converting a 3 element meter to “2½ “ element metering.
Installation Verification and Tamper Detection Tools
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GE’s Site Genie Monitor provides a simple, automatic way to catch errors, tampering and wiring
changes before billing problems occur. Site Genie also gives you the phasor information and
diagnostics you need to fix the problems it finds.
Cost of Service Measurements
Knowing what it costs both Generation and Distribution Utilities to serve a site is a key piece of
competitive information. With modern loads, measuring energy and power factor isn’t enough. The
kV2 is the first meter to simultaneously measure all of the components of service cost in one meter
(real & reactive - with and without harmonics, distortion, and vector apparent power).
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Inventory reduction with 120-480 V operation, consolidated forms and Fitzall™ Application Flexibility
Revenue Guard™ Protection Option and DC Immunity
Software selectable 50 or 60 Hz operation
Standard Reading and Programming (ANSI C12.18 & C12.19)
The largest range of electronic meters in one platform with singlephase, network, and three phase
versions. Class 320, Form 56S, Switchboard and A-Base versions
To purchase or obtain more information about GE Meter products, please call GE 1-Stop at
1-800-431-7867.
Product information is also available on our web site. Visit us at http://www.GEIndustrial.com then
hit the Product Index button (upper right) and select Metering
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