The project will include: supply and train City staff on an advanced metering infrastructure system for all electric metering points, with an option to provide water metering points. The City desires a proven and secure two-way, multi-purpose management communications network solution, which offers remote monitoring and control functions to various devices on the proposed City of Aspen system.
The City of Aspen is accepting proposals to supply an advanced metering infrastructure system for all electric metering points, with an option to provide water metering points. City of Aspen Utilities plans to deploy the electric system over one to two years starting in 2019. This timing is subject to change based on proposal, financial conditions and City Council direction. Deployment of the water system will depend on the technical solutions available, availability, integration, and costs. Objectives of the AMI system includes:
- Reduce electric and water meter reading costs
- Increase meter reading performance and accuracy
- Provide two-way monitoring and control functions through the AMI system
- In electric utility, provide outage and restoration notification to increase outage management efficiency
- Ability to provide direct load control of select city and customer load devices—i.e. water heaters, space heaters, air conditioners, electric vehicles, etc.
- Reduce energy and water theft
- Provide time-of-use and dynamic rate structuring capability
- Perform remote disconnect/reconnect of electric service
- Supply comprehensive data from endpoints
- Provide endpoint information to other applications
- Protect and secure consumer data
- Provide customer data portal/availability of information for customers
- Reduce electric and water losses
- Allow incremental deployment and expansion for both electric and water utility
- Position the City of Aspen for future technological advances
- Integrate real time information from AMI system to distribution automation strategies and SCADA system to improve system reliability and efficiency
- Enable “Pay as You Go” prepayment capability
- Allow the capability to provide customers with their real-time energy and water use data
Provide demand response capability
