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Stephen Nees Technology Development Manager Anaheim Public Utilities forges ahead with its AMI
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Population > 340,000 10 th largest city in California Mediterranean climate 70 degrees F average 9.8 inches annual rainfall – but not this year! 50 square miles City of Anaheim
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24 th largest US public power utility 2700 GWh annual energy sales 593 MW summer peak (07/06) 110,000 customers Lowest power costs in Orange County Anaheim Public Utilities
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Commercial advanced metering 700 largest customers Account for over 50% of usage and revenue Advanced metering pilot Multiple vendors Demand response pilot What have we done?
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Completed Jan, 2007 4 options evaluated Long payback periods Recommendation Strategic deployment MDMS key component Multiple AMI vendors Business Case Analysis
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Build the core infrastructure Why? Prepare for the future Legislative Regulatory Customer Information Improved operations and service More Business Case
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Consultant retained RFP development RFP scoring Key factors Future enterprise service bus Multi-vendor AMI support System integration CIS – Sungard H.T.E. OMS – Advanced Control Systems Work and asset management – Oracle/SPL MDMS Request for Proposals
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Review board established All divisions represented Reviewed and scored the proposals Vendor demonstrations/presentations Evaluated risk factors Financial stability Management stability Architecture/technology MDMS Selection
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Review board consensus Recommendation to Anaheim PUB Anaheim City Council Approval 8/21/07 – Last night!! More MDMS Selection
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Two vendor ‘head-end’ systems already in place Large commercial/industrial Residential – capable of supporting commercial Currently two vendor systems - bidirectional Public data network(s) for large commercial/industrial Hybrid mesh RF network (licensed/unlicensed) Planning on adding a third tested system Mesh network Master agreements for equipment What about AMI?
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Increased options for AMI New vendors New/different communications technologies Wi-Fi BPL Increased competition Upside – reduced costs Downside – confusion at all levels Education Internal Customer Local regulators in our case Observations
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