Posts Tagged ‘Smart Metering’

Gothenburg, Sweden – June 14, 2010: According to a new research
report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of
smart electricity meters in Asia-Pacific will grow at a compound
annual growth rate of 91.0 percent between 2009 and 2015 to reach
116.5 million at the end of the period. Penetration for smart
metering technology is projected to soar from very low levels to 25.0
percent by the end of the period. By the mid-2010s, the majority of
all electricity meters shipped in the region is expected to have
advanced functionalities and networking capabilities. Berg Insight
anticipates that the leading economies in the region will have close
to 100 percent penetration by 2020.

“Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing market for smart metering
solutions in the world”, said Tobias Ryberg, Senior Analyst, Berg
Insight. “South Korea has begun the construction of a nationwide
smart grid where intelligent energy meters constitute the basic
building-block. Japan’s two largest power utilities have announced
plans for full-scale smart meter deployments in this decade and China
is preparing a nationwide rollout within three to five years.”
Altogether the three countries have an installed base of more than
360 million electricity meters today, with an annual growth rate of
3–5 percent.

Australia and New Zealand commenced with massive installations of
smart meters at the end of the last decade. Victoria will become the
first Australian state to achieve full penetration by 2013. Mandatory
rollouts are also being considered in other territories such as New
South Wales. In New Zealand, the adoption of smart metering is driven
by the energy industry. While many other countries have introduced
regulations for the new technology, New Zealand’s government has
decided not to interfere with the process.

Read more at www.berginsight.com/

Enerway met Audhild Kvam who is leading the International Business Development at Powel at the Smart Metering Scandinavia conference in Copenhagen.
Since 1996, Powel has been working together with their customers and with Sintef, the research institute in Norway, to develop innovative products and solutions that are driving the energy sector in Scandinavia.

Powel has identified that network companies that have completed their rollout projects are looking for opportunities to get more out of their infrastructure investments. They want to improve the reliability and reduce costs by utilizing the data they have collected from multiple systems and apply it to the smart grid functionality.
There has been a lot of development and work completed within the Transmission Grid and Residential Metering, therefore a lot of improvements can be realized in the Distributions Grid.

Powel are now working with customers to use their Smart Metering Data together with Scada and Network information to offer customer service representatives and operational staff measurable improvements in energy disturbance analysis and asset utilization.

Powel is a leading supplier of software to the utility sector in the Nordics and they support the Smart Metering Scandinavia conferences from Synergy. Powel wants to share their experiences and support their customers. At the conference they have the chance to demonstrate new smart grid solutions like the Distribution Management System, Business Management tools and new portals that can improve the way power are delivered and it improves the customer experience as well.

For more information about Powel, please visit www.powel.com

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Enerway met Knut Gustavsen, Director of Energy Tieto in Norway at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia in Copenhagen.

This interview covers a short presentation of Tieto and what they are planning for the future within the Smart Metering area. In opposite to many utilities and companies working with Smart Metering, Tieto believes that the end customers won’t be very active on saving energy themselves by using In-home displays et cetera. According to research made by Tieto experts, the future consumers needs services, third party vendors or suppliers and IT systems that can guide and help the energy consumers to save energy and to use the energy in a smart and effective way.

Tieto thinks that households and offices in the future will become Prosumers which means that they will produce energy as well as they will consume energy. The Prosumers will need systems that can help them to produce and consume as smart as possible as well as they need systems that can monitor and control their buildings.

For more information about Tieto, visit www.tieto.com

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This is a short version of the interview with Rachel Bennett, the International Sales director. The interview was made at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia in Copenhagen.
The interview covers a short presentation of the company geo – Green Energy Options and presents some of their products that help consumers to make energy visible. For example the Minim, the Solo, the Duet, the Trio and the Energy hub for homes and businesses that can monitor the consumption and display it on your PC.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6qCUKmRuU

Follow this link for the longer version

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Andreas Berthold-van der Molen is responsible for Utilities at Microsoft EMEA which operates in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Microsoft helps their customers in the utilities to optimize their environments.

Andreas was invited as a speaker to the Smart Metering Conference in Copenhagen and Microsoft’s approach was to highlight how we can change consumer behavior by helping them to adapt to new technology. The feedback from the project with Yello Strom was that it’s nice for consumers to have a dashboard that shows the consumption in real-time but after a week or two the interest decreases.

The research made by Microsoft shows that if we can help consumers to increase their living comfort, e.g. by controlling their heating or cooling, we can change the consumer behavior as well.

Together with partners Microsoft offers end-to-end solutions based on technological possibilities that will increase the living comfort and also gives the consumers the ability to control the consumption from a distance.

In the smart grid, Microsoft’s focus is to connect and build bridges between existing applications so that they can talk to each other. If the utilities integrate existing assets, they will be able to solve a lot of ongoing challenges.

Microsoft also supports partners to create solutions for the whole utility value chain from generation, transmission and distribution to the retailers.

Andreas explains that by attending to conferences like the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia he has the possibility to talk to a lot of vendors and utilities from different countries during the breaks between the sessions. It is very time efficient to have dialogs in a very short timeframe.

For more information about Microsoft EMEA Utility activities, please visit
www.microsoft.com/utilities

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Enerway met Saul Nurtman, Managing Director at Junifer Systems at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia in Copenhagen.

The interview covers a short presentation of the company Junifer Systems. Junifer Systems has a strong background in the complex Telecoms billing sector to provide highly efficient, flexible and cost effective back-office solutions for the utilities and telco markets.

Junifer Systems utility products consists of Junifer AMR, Junifer Utility Rating, Junifer Utility CCB, Junifer Analytics and Junifer Web Portal.

Watch the interview right here and visit www.junifersystems.com for more information about the company and their products.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGnsfjbSKw

Enerway met Rachel Bennett, the International Sales Director, at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia in Copenhagen.
The interview covers a short presentation of the company geo – Green Energy Options and presents some of their products that help consumers to make energy visible. For example the Minim, the Solo, the Duet, the Trio and the Energy hub for homes and businesses that can monitor the consumption and display it on your PC.

Watch the video right here and right now!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXyZpYDATIw

Visit Green Energy Options website

Enerway met Colin McKerracher at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia conference in Copenhagen.

Colin McKerracher
Director of Sales and Marketing
Energy Aware Technology Inc.

Energy Aware is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The company develops In-Home energy monitoring displays that provides real-time feedback and information on consumption.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQIws9K7_3s

For more information visit the Energy-aware website
www.energy-aware.com

This interview covers a short presentation of the European Technology company Aidon and explains briefly about the benefits for utilities and customers after implementation of Smart Metering in the distribution grid.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MDZ_O-WTno

The interview is made by Enerway in association with Synergy and is the first to be published from a long list of interviews from the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia Conference. More interviews will be published as soon as they have been approved by the company involved.

Follow this link if you want to read the list of interviews coming up soon!

Enerway has accomplished its first mission at the Smart Metering 2010 Scandinavia in Copenhagen. A lot of video interviews have been made and they will be published as soon as they have been edited and approved by the companies involved. The regulatory round table will also be published when it has been edited and split up into shorter clips.

Many thanks to the organizer of the Smart Metering Conference, Synergy.

These interviews were made in Copenhagen:
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