Overview of EDC DSR Programs by General Category & Customer Class: 2007
Electric Distribution Company / Generation Buyback / Load Reduction / Load Control / Distributed Generation / Hourly Pricing / Time of Use / Consumer Brochures / Audit Customer Facilities / Rebate- High Efficiency Heat Pumps / Web-Based EnergyCalculator
Allegheny Power / -- Large C&I (On-Site Generation) / -- Industrial- Demand Billing
(Closed)
Duquesne / -- Large C&I (On-Site Emergency Generator) / -- Residential
-- Small C&I (Direct Load Control Device) / -- C&I
First Energy / -- C&I
(Interval Meter;
Internet) / -- Residential
-- Small C&I
(Ongoing Development) / -- C&I
(On-Site Generation) / --Residential
--C&I / -- Residential
PennPower / -- C&I
(Interval Meter;
Internet) / -- C&I (Off-Peak Demand) Closed
PECO / -- Large C&I
(Interval Meter) / -- Residential
-- Small C&I
(Billing Demand)
PPL / -- C&I
(Interval Meter) Closed / --C&I:“Price Response Service”
(Interval Meter) Closed / --Residential (Closed)
DSRRider (Open)
-- C&I (Closed)
UGI / -- Large C&I
(Interval Meter) / -- Residential / -- Residential
-- Small C&I / -- Large C&I / -- Residential
Overview of EDC Advanced Metering Network Infrastructure Responses: 2007
Allegheny Power / --1,500 customers have Interval-recording/advanced metering; This represents @ one-half of total load / -- Metering & telecommunications;
-- IT (Billing; Meter Data Mgt;
-- Load Mgt- Data validation, analysis; / -- Capital expenditures: $141 million;
-- Annual O&M costs: $1.8 million
Duquesne / --99% of meters read through AMR
--Residential meters not conducive to hourly pricing;
-- Most C&I have capability to provide hourly data; interval reads not provided to all C&I customers; / -- Replace meters;
-- Establish two-way communications network;
-- Changes to Data Translation System to expand hourly pricing to residential customers. / -- $327.2 million- Capital
-- $6.3 million- O&M
-- 3-5 years
First energy / -- At present interval metering is installed on most C&I customers;
-- Met-Ed- 1,045 interval meters;
--Penelec- 1,100 interval meters;
-- PennPower- 233 interval meters. / -- Billing System; Marketing; Hardware/Software; Installation; Communications; Maintenance & Attrition; Reporting; Customer Contribution
-- Currently focusing capital dollars on high priority reliability projects. / -- $300 million;
PECO / -- AMR System Deployed;
-- Interval reads for up to 60,000 residential customers; Above 60,000 customers requires system upgrades / -- IT Changes: internal meter data storage systems; Billing System Changes; EDI Changes. / -- Price Unknown;
-- 1-3 years
PPL / -- AMR System Deployed; Can be queried on demand. / -- In the process of installing a meter data management system which includes data storage, validating, editing & estimating, billing system, settlement system customer interface to view hourly data;
-- Plans to have infrastructure in place by January 1, 2010 to permit any customer to be provided generation service at hourly prices (or prices that require hourly consumption information);
-- POLR supply option for 2010 includes hourly option for large C&I & availability of Demand Side Response Rider for eligible residential customers;
-- No Plans to offer hourly (or hourly based ) POLR Service to small C&I / -- $116 million AMR Deployment;
-- $ 44 million Communications/IT
-- $10 million Meter Data Management;
-- $170 million Total
UGI / -- Two-Way Communications System; New Billing System; Consumer Education; Metering Equip;
-- No current plans for deployment of hourly pricing;
-- Experience with other EDCs that require hourly pricing: vast majority of customers opt for flat generation pricing;
-- most customers secure fixed price service- no benefits to capital expenditure;
--Sees no benefit to this expenditure only to see customers move to suppliers that offer fixed price / -- Approximately $20 million;