GE’s Grid IQ™ Advanced Metering Infrastructure(AMI) Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Solution combined with GE’s Smart Meters provides significant cost savings and productivity improvements to electric utilities primarily through automated meter reading and faster and more reliable identification of outages, reducing utility fleets’ truck rolls and associated CO2 emissions, and will lower the overall power consumed in network operation. In addition, Smart Meters are critical enablers of GE’s broader Smart Grid solutions including integration with programmable communicating thermostats and appliances, Distribution Optimization, and Demand Response that can reduce electricity consumption and associated CO2 emissions.
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Environmental Benefits
GE's Grid IQ™ AMI P2MP Solution combined with GE's Smart Meters operates at a nominal transmit power of 100mW versus competing systems that can operate at up to 2W. A 1 million meter utility using the Grid IQ™ AMI P2MP Solution and reporting on regular intervals 6 times per day can save 0.7 to 3.2 MWh annually, avoiding approximately 30 to 130 metric tons of CO2 emission on the US grid per year depending on the competing system's meter energy consumption.
Operating Benefits
GE's Grid IQ™ AMI P2MP Solution combined with GE's Smart Meters enables faster and more reliable identification of outages and power restoration. The Grid IQ™ AMI P2MP Solution can manage 1,000 concurrent connections every 4 seconds, improving outage notification rates to 75% compared with 15% with current systems. Notification of a widespread outage allows the utility to pinpoint crews to solve problems rather than deploying multiple truck rolls to investigate. Combined with GE's Fault Detection Isolation Restoration, which is designed to reduce interruption time by 50% for automated circuits and 33% for circuits with remote dispatcher control, the solution can deliver a 14% overall reduction in interruption time for a 1 million customer utility that implements AMI and fully automates 20% and remotely controls 10% of its feeders.
