Stephen Nees Technology Development Manager Anaheim Public Utilities forges ahead with its AMI.

Stephen NeesTechnology Development Manager

Anaheim Public Utilities forges ahead with its AMI

• Population > 340,000• 10th largest city in California• Mediterranean climate

• 70 degrees F average• 9.8 inches annual rainfall – but not

this year!• 50 square miles

City of Anaheim

• 24th largest US public power utility• 2700 GWh annual energy sales• 593 MW summer peak (07/06)• 110,000 customers• Lowest power costs in Orange County

Anaheim Public Utilities

• Commercial advanced metering• 700 largest customers• Account for over 50% of usage and

revenue• Advanced metering pilot

• Multiple vendors• Demand response pilot

What have we done?

• Completed Jan, 2007• 4 options evaluated• Long payback periods

• Recommendation• Strategic deployment• MDMS key component• Multiple AMI vendors

Business Case Analysis

• Build the core infrastructure• Why?

• Prepare for the future• Legislative• Regulatory

• Customer Information• Improved operations and service

More Business Case

• Consultant retained• RFP development• RFP scoring

• Key factors• Future enterprise service bus• Multi-vendor AMI support• System integration

• CIS – Sungard H.T.E.• OMS – Advanced Control Systems• Work and asset management – Oracle/SPL

MDMS Request for Proposals

• Review board established• All divisions represented

• Reviewed and scored the proposals• Vendor demonstrations/presentations• Evaluated risk factors

• Financial stability• Management stability• Architecture/technology

MDMS Selection

• Review board consensus• Recommendation to Anaheim

PUB• Anaheim City Council Approval

• 8/21/07 – Last night!!

More MDMS Selection

• Two vendor ‘head-end’ systems already in place

• Large commercial/industrial• Residential – capable of supporting commercial

• Currently two vendor systems - bidirectional• Public data network(s) for large

commercial/industrial• Hybrid mesh RF network (licensed/unlicensed)

• Planning on adding a third tested system• Mesh network

• Master agreements for equipment

What about AMI?

• Increased options for AMI• New vendors• New/different communications technologies

• Wi-Fi• BPL

• Increased competition• Upside – reduced costs• Downside – confusion at all levels

• Education• Internal• Customer• Local regulators in our case

Observations

Questions?