Overview of EDC DSR Programs by General Category & Customer Class: 2007
Electric Distribution Company Allegheny Power Generation Buyback Load Reduction Load Control Distributed Generation Hourly Pricing Time of Use Consumer Brochures Audit Customer Facilities RebateHigh Efficiency Heat Pumps Web-Based Energy Calculator
-- Large C&I (On-Site Generation) -- Large C&I (On-Site Emergency Generator) -- C&I (Interval Meter; Internet) -- Residential -- Small C&I (Direct Load Control Device) -- Residential -- Small C&I (Ongoing Development)
-- IndustrialDemand Billing (Closed) -- C&I
Duquesne
First Energy
-- C&I (On-Site Generation) -- C&I (Interval Meter; Internet)
--Residential --C&I
-- Residential
PennPower
-- C&I (Off-Peak Demand) Closed -- Residential -- Small C&I (Billing Demand)
PECO
-- Large C&I (Interval Meter)
PPL
-- C&I (Interval Meter) Closed
--C&I:“Price Response Service” (Interval Meter) Closed
--Residential (Closed) DSRRider (Open) -- C&I (Closed) -- Residential -- Residential -- Small C&I -- Large C&I -- Residential
UGI
-- Large C&I (Interval Meter)
EDC
Overview of EDC Advanced Metering Network Infrastructure Responses: 2007 Current Status Summary of Infrastructure Requirements/Plans
--1,500 customers have Intervalrecording/advanced metering; This represents @ one-half of total load --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; -- 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. -- AMR System Deployed; -- Interval reads for up to 60,000 residential customers; Above 60,000 customers requires system upgrades -- AMR System Deployed; Can be queried on demand. -- Metering & telecommunications; -- IT (Billing; Meter Data Mgt; -- Load Mgt- Data validation, analysis; -- Replace meters; -- Establish two-way communications network; -- Changes to Data Translation System to expand hourly pricing to residential customers.
Costs/Time Frame
-- Capital expenditures: $141 million; -- Annual O&M costs: $1.8 million
Allegheny Power
Duquesne
-- $327.2 million- Capital -- $6.3 million- O&M -- 3-5 years
First energy
-- Billing System; Marketing; Hardware/Software; Installation; Communications; Maintenance & Attrition; Reporting; Customer Contribution -- Currently focusing capital dollars on high priority reliability projects.
-- $300 million;
PECO
-- IT Changes: internal meter data storage systems; Billing System Changes; EDI Changes.
-- Price Unknown; -- 1-3 years
PPL
UGI
-- 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 -- 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
-- $116 million AMR Deployment; -- $ 44 million Communications/IT -- $10 million Meter Data Management; -- $170 million Total
-- Approximately $20 million;