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Alcatel-Lucent
Energy utilities are operating in
an environment where significant
market and operational challenges
exist. The deployment and
implementation of appropriate
Information Communication
Technology (ICT) solutions plays an
intrinsic role in meeting these
challenges.
The key take-away points of this
whitepaper are:
- Market dynamics are shifting
and a result of merger and
acquisition activity, government
policy and changing consumer behavior.
- Considerable ongoing debate
regarding climate change and the
role that technology can play to
positively adjust this.
- Substantial future investments
in new technologies are necessary,
as utilities undertake
transformation programs to remain
competitive.
- Smart grids and smart metering
have significant implications on
ICT infrastructure.
- Communications network
transformation will homogenize
operational communications,
allowing existing applications to
be supported through multi-service
optical networks while enabling the
evolution to IP-MPLS.
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Alcatel-Lucent
Market forces are driving today’s
utilities to provide better
planning, administration, and
management of electric service
delivery. In order to meet this
demand, diverse communications
infrastructures must evolve to
support improved collection,
analysis, security and management
of information, from generation,
through transmission and
distribution, all the way out to
the end customer.
This paper describes an
evolutionary approach to an
intelligent communications network
(“SmartGridNet”), maximizing
leverage of the existing asset base
and minimizing capital and
operations expenses.
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Alliance Data
How business process outsourcing provides an “insurance policy” for
CIS implementation cost overruns and system failures.
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Alliance Data
The energy industry may be one of the most complex business
environments, as it is capital intensive, regulatory-constrained,
ROI-managed, environmentally challenged, often unionized,
and accountable for near-perfect reliability.
Utilities that achieve next-level performance in such a challenging
environment are skilled at balancing asset portfolios with regulatory
constraints. They understand that all assets must contribute to
business performance, and actively seek partners and strategies
that provide 21st century solutions.
Today, most utilities recognize the ability of business process
outsourcing (BPO) to decrease customer service costs. However,
some are beginning to consider BPO to unlock the value of
underperforming assets, assist in M&A integration, enhance
revenue, achieve cost certainty in rate recovery, and act as a
safety net for skills lost to retirement.
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Energy Central
Perhaps no industry has undergone as much change over the past ten
years as the utility industry. The cumulative effect of these changes on
the traditional utility workforce is staggering. A recent study conducted by
Energy Central involving utility workforce issues revealed that the
problem might be worse than was previously expected.
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Itron Inc.
The purpose of this paper is to
discuss the impact of advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) on
the business processes involved in
load research and forecasting. It
starts with a short overview of
current load research and
forecasting processes. Definitions
and an overview of AMI technologies
are provided next. Then, the
discussion proceeds to summarize
the things that do and do not
change because of AMI. Finally,
these changes are translated into
impacts on forecasting and load
research business processes. Also,
some conclusions are provided about
the impact of these process changes
for and meter data management (MDM)
and data analysis systems.
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Itron Inc.
Utilities rely on a complex array of sophisticated technologies to meter
and bill energy and water customers. Changing regulations, aging utility
systems, and widespread adoption of automated meter reading
technologies are driving transformation in how today's utilities manage
large amounts of meter data. It's critical utilities understand the key
features that distinguish the meter data management solutions that can
deliver results utilities need today and tomorrow.
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Itron Inc.
This document is meant to address the general public that is not
familiar with Itron radio technology. More specifically, this documents is
designed for personnel involved in meter reading and endpoint
programming of Itron radio frequency (RF) enabled electric, gas and
water meters. This document goes through a general overview of how
Itron radio technology functions and its uses. This document does not
address how the data from the Itron systems and handhelds is
processed after it is collected from the Itron RF-enabled device.
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Itron Inc.
The purpose of this paper is to
discuss the impact of advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) on
the business processes involved in
load research and forecasting. It
starts with a short overview of
current load research and
forecasting processes. Definitions
and an overview of AMI technologies
are provided next. Then, the
discussion proceeds to summarize
the things that do and do not
change because of AMI. Finally,
these changes are translated into
impacts on forecasting and load
research business processes. Also,
some conclusions are provided about
the impact of these process changes
for and meter data management (MDM)
and data analysis systems.
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Itron Inc.
Utilities rely on a complex array of sophisticated technologies to meter
and bill energy and water customers. Changing regulations, aging utility
systems, and widespread adoption of automated meter reading
technologies are driving transformation in how today's utilities manage
large amounts of meter data. It's critical utilities understand the key
features that distinguish the meter data management solutions that can
deliver results utilities need today and tomorrow.
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Itron Inc.
This document is meant to address the general public that is not
familiar with Itron radio technology. More specifically, this documents is
designed for personnel involved in meter reading and endpoint
programming of Itron radio frequency (RF) enabled electric, gas and
water meters. This document goes through a general overview of how
Itron radio technology functions and its uses. This document does not
address how the data from the Itron systems and handhelds is
processed after it is collected from the Itron RF-enabled device.
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MasterCard Worldwide
The MasterCard Utility Industry Program is a
unique initiative that makes it more beneficial
than ever for your company to accept MasterCard
cards as a payment option for your customers.
This program features a very favorable
interchange rate*—introduced specifically for
the Utility industry for qualifying one-time and
recurring U.S. consumer credit MasterCard card,
World MasterCard® card, and Debit MasterCard®
card transactions.
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Maysteel LLC
This guide has been written to provide the maintenance
engineer or plant engineer with a basic understanding
of power factor. The guide also demonstrates that by
correcting poor power factor loads with power capacitor
banks, the capacity of the electrical system can be increased
while simultaneously reducing the electric utility bills. The
pitfalls of installing power capacitor banks on electrical
systems that have non-linear loads are also presented.
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Meridium, Inc.
Deregulation, restructuring and
merger and acquisition activities
have created profitability and
performance issues with in the
power industry. These changes
require that companies take a fresh
look at some of their most
established work processes. To
remain competitive, new and
innovative approaches are needed.
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Oracle
What is most clear to utilities
from experience is that
half-hearted “education” programs
have little if any permanent effect
on consumption. To make a
difference, utilities must weave
the conservation mission into
fundamental business processes. And
utilities’ most fundamental
customer-related process is billing.
The utility billing system or
customer information system (CIS)
can, in fact, play a key role in
providing customers with a clear
picture of the relationship between
consumption and environment. It can
offer options. It can help
customers turn behavioral
alternatives into habits.
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Oracle
Over the past year, technology advances and high energy prices have
stimulated interest in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).
Discussions are wide-ranging. Some focus globally: Australian and
Canadian “smart metering”, new European Union requirements, the
results of time-of-use pilots that arose in the wake of California’s
deregulation debacle. Some discussions emphasize AMI benefits—new
products, “instant” outage detection, better load management. Others
plunge immediately into interval billing’s fine points: contracting,
hedging, and settlements.
Focusing utilities’ attention is the federal mandate that each state
examine the possible expansion of advanced metering within its
borders.
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Oracle
Utilities that permit metering or billing departments to control AMI design
almost invariably discover that initial investments fail to provide optimal
return on investment. In fact, without strategic executive leadership and
involvement of all departments, utilities embarking on AMI risk near-term
revenue loss, less-than-optimal service delivery, and long-term
excessive IT costs that customers and communities may not tolerate.
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Oracle
Should water utilities replace current consumption meters with “Smart
Metering”
systems that provide more information to both utilities and customers?
This question is being hotly debated in today’s electric utility industry. It
appears
currently of less interest in the water industry. But as drought and
population
growth sharpen the focus on water issues, experts are increasing
looking at Smart
Metering as a possible contribution to long-term supply.
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