 FREE WHITEPAPER: Designing Energy Services for Commercial and Industrial Customers 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. |
