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Title: Nordic AMR Forum


1
Nordic AMR Forum
  • Andrei Z. Morch
  • SINTEF Energy Research
  • Norway

2
The Nordic Electricity Market
  • The oldest form of Nordic electricity cooperation
    dates back to 1960s
  • The Nordic electricity market is a
    well-functioning integrated regional electricity
    market
  • The integration did not directly involve retail
    markets, which remained national

3
Common Nordic Institutions in the Power industry
  • NORDEL - a body for co-operation between the
    transmission system operators (TSOs) in the
    Nordic countries
  • NordPool Nordic electricity exchange
  • NordReg Nordic Energy Regulators
  • NER - Nordic Energy Research
  • EDIEL Nordic Forum

4
Establishment of Integrated Nordic End-user
Electricity Market
  • The Akureyri Declaration of the Nordic energy
    Ministers (2004) - a further development and
    deeper integration of the national electricity
    markets
  • truly common Nordic retail market with free
    choice of supplier (from the strategic
    objectives to the Forum of Nordic Regulators
    (NordReg) in 2005)

5
Background for the presentation
  • Research task for NordReg (Nordic Regulators)
  • Mapping of technical obstacles for establishment
    of a Nordic Retail Market (VTT Technical Research
    Centre of Finland and SINTEF Energy Research)
  • National research project
  • Market-based end-user adaptation (Norway)

6
Data Exchange and Protocols between the main
market actors in Nordic countries
CIS Customer Information System EDI
Electronic Data Interchange MVDB Metered
Values Database TSO Transmission System
Operator
7
AMR Status in Nordic Countries in brief
  • Norway
  • Mandatory hourly metering for final customers
    with consumption over 100.000 kWh pr year from
    01.01.2005
  • Voluntarily installations at app. 10 DSOs
  • Denmark
  • Mandatory hourly metering for final customers
    with consumption over 100.000 kWh pr year from
    01.01.2005
  • Voluntarily installations

8
AMR Status in Nordic Countries in brief
  • Finland
  • Consumption places that are equipped with main
    fuses of over 3 x 63 A must have hourly metering
  • Voluntarily installations
  • Sweden
  • Mandatory hourly metering for final customers
    with a fuse subscription of 63 A from 01.07.06.
  • From 01.07.09 all metering points should be read
    monthly and the Final customers should be
    invoiced based on their real consumption.

9
AMR and economic risks (Results from a survey
and interviews with 8 DSOs in Norway)
  • Problems with communication services
  • Dependence from 3rd party suppliers
  • Technical changes or/and raising costs
  • Risks associated with soft- and hardware vendors
    Economic problems and closing down
  • Use of proprietor-solutions complicates
    replacement of a single part of the system
  • Necessary to purchase a new system

10
AMR and economic risks (Results from a survey
and interviews with 8 DSOs in Norway)
  • Vendors develop new versions, which are not
    compatible with the previous ones or/and mergers
    with other DSOs
  • Choice of AMRs functionality is critical for the
    future operation and costs
  • Strong interest to standardised and open protocols

11
Data protocols for transfer of metered data
MVDB Metered Value Data Base
12
How DSOs try to reduce these risks?
  • DSO chooses one reliable vendor and builds a
    single-vendor system
  • Suites best for medium and small companies
  • Does not guarantee that the given vendor is
    reliable
  • Back-compatibility issue is still present /
    technologic development

13
How DSOs try to reduce these risks?
  • Deliberate choice of several vendors 3-5 in order
    to diversify the risk
  • Suites best for medium and big DSOs
  • The risk is diversified, but still is present
  • Partial or full purchase of an AMR-vendor (own
    AMR)
  • Impossible for small companies
  • Excludes other vendors and reduces competition
  • May result in development of specific local
    solutions

14
ESMA European Smart Metering Alliance
  • EUs Energy Intelligent Europe project
  • Project led by BEAMA Ltd (UK), with 14
    participants
  • 690k Euro Commission contribution
  • 3 year project duration

15
Initiation of Nordic AMR Forum
  • Common initiative from four Nordic institutions
  • SINTEF Energy Research (Norway) (project
    coordinator)
  • VTT (Finland) (project partner)
  • Elforsk (Sweden) (project partner)
  • DEFU (Denmark) (project partner)
  • Ekodoma Ltd (Latvia)(observer)
  • The initiative is supported (50 ) by Nodic
    Energy Research in 2006 2007

16
Objectives of Nordic AMR Forum
  • Contribution to harmonization of the technical
    rules and regulations related to implementation
    and operation of AMR systems
  • Development of a common strategy, related to use
    of data formats (protocols) for transfer of
    metered data

17
Objectives of Nordic AMR Forum
  • Sharing experience among Distribution System
    Operators, related to implementation and
    operation of AMR systems
  • Work on functional requirements for AMR systems
    (as well as minimum requirements) in order to
    fulfil the future needs of metering and Demand
    Response

18
Nordic AMR Forum holds a workshop
  • The main topic AMR best national practices and
    challenges in Nordic countries
  • Time and venue Stockholm 16.08.07
  • Information www.sintef.no/amrforum
  • Registration azm_at_sintef.no

19
Reserve slides
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From the research task for NordReg
  • Technical and regulatory differences, related to
    operation and implementation of AMR
  • Lack of common strategy and standpoints related
    to implementation of AMR leads to risk exposure
  • Necessity to improve the technical expertise

21
Interpretation of different protocols
Source Powel ASA
22
Industrial cooperation as a solution
  • Several examples (SAMS in Sweden, eHZ in Germany)
  • Development of common technical hard- and
    software requirements
  • Common negotiations with software vendors
  • Meeting place, exchange of experience in
    projecting, building (logistics) and operation of
    AMR systems
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