Understanding the AMR Market in North America
Overview and IntroductionUtiliPoint® recently conducted an extensive survey of utility executives and regulators on the business case and value of AMR to utilities. The survey provided opportunity to assess trends in the industry, and to compare the AMR plans of utilities with what regulators would support.
- AMR Business Case: What do utilities include in the business case or value but do not include in the business case? What benefits do regulators include in the business case? For which benefits will regulators allow utilities to retain some or all of the earnings?
- Network benefits of AMR
- Utility and regulator interest/plans in time-of-use and/or dynamic rates for residential, small or medium commercial customers.
- Billing components provided by AMR system for residential and commercial customers.
- Importance of demand response programs based on time-of-use and dynamic rates.
- Utility interest in migrating from a mobile RF AMR solution to a fixed network AMR solution.
- Utility plans for using new solid state meters for residential.
- Utility awareness of vendors of data management for AMR data.
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Readers may also be interested in UtiliPoint's Outlook and Evaluation of Demand Repsonse, pulbished in June 2005. For informatkon on this report, please visit http://www.utilipoint.com/specialpages/Outlook_and_Evaluation_DR.asp.
For more information on this report, please contact Patti Harper-Slaboszewicz by phone 505.797.5475, or by email at pharper-s@utilipoint.com