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• AMI Deployments: Lessons Learned

  

  Gary Lutz, Principal Technical Architect/DBA, Ecologic Analytics

  07.11.08 - The move to advanced metering capabilities is upon us. More and more cities and utilities desire the ability to not only streamline the collection of meter data, but use the information for advanced applications and business intelligence.
  

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• Involving Customers in the Resource Mix

  

  Hugh Baker, Jr., President, MeterSmart

  06.27.08 - The U.S. utility industry faces a challenging period of major transformation. The exact nature of these changes and their long-term effect upon the economic well-being and security of the country are difficult to predict.
  

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• Pursuing the Intelligent Grid: Are Smart Grid Technologies Co-opting the Core Benefits of Smart Metering Systems?

  

  Ed Finamore, President, ValuTech Solutions Inc.

  06.12.08 - A funny thing happened on the way to smart metering -- utilities began thinking smart grid.
  

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• Utilities with Limited Resources Get Boost from Hosted Systems

  Dave Bonnett, Vice President of Product Management, Aclara Software

  05.23.08 - Investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are rapidly adopting meter data management systems (MDMS) to manage, process, and distribute usage information collected by advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Most IOUs are large operations, serving millions of customers, and have the staffing resources necessary to deploy as well as support the complex hardware and software requirements required by MDMS.
  

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• Trends in Meter Data Management System Acquisitions

  

  Mark Hatfield, Principal Consultant, Enspiria Solutions

  05.09.08 - All of the major MDMS vendors can calculate billing determinants and do validation, estimation and editing (VEE). Yet, as utilities are expanding AMI business cases beyond just reading meters and TOU rates, they expect more functionality out of the MDMS they will select.
  

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• Building Models for the Smart Grid Business Case

  

  Jagoron Mukherjee, Senior Consultant, KEMA

  04.25.08 - Part I of this two-part article considered the role of financial models in developing the business case for the Smart Grid. Part II continues with a discussion of regulatory requirements.
  

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• Building Models for the Smart Grid Business Case

  

  Jagoron Mukherjee, Senior Consultant, KEMA

  04.11.08 - Part I of this two-part article will consider the role of financial models in developing the business case for the Smart Grid. The Federal Energy Policy Act 2005, Section 1252 (EPAct) states that energy policy supports all utilities to "provide customers with time-based rates and the ability to receive and respond to electricity price signals."
  

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• Utility Standards Board: Exploring the Opportunities for Standardization in Customer Service

  

  Thomas Brunetto, Managing Partner, DEFG, LLC
  Peter Shaw, Director of Customer Strategy, Navigant Consulting

  03.28.08 - The opportunities for standardizing business policies, processes, and system interfaces are vast, and the business benefits of standardization have been clearly demonstrated for years. Well-designed standards enable interoperability among different systems and devices, increase process efficiencies, and foster innovation by solution developers.
  

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• A Fresh Approach to Managing Peak Demand

  

  Gary Paul, Vice President, Energy & Utilities Practice, Capgemini

  03.14.08 - In the near future, all North American utilities will adopt smart metering and the supporting advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) at some level. Some utilities will inevitably take a bare bones approach, doing just enough to meet the minimum requirements set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and other regulatory mandates.
  

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• Advanced Metering Growth to Expand Significantly, but Industry Penetration Still Low

  Mark Hall, Research Analyst, Chartwell Inc.

  02.29.08 - With constant buzz surrounding the status of advanced metering and the crucial role it will play in the smart grid, sometimes forgotten in conversation is that advanced metering installations are still a small fraction of the installed automated meter reading (AMR) base in North American.
  

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