{"id":474303,"date":"2010-03-26T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgeproblem.com\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:27:23","slug":"more-on-smart-meter-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474303","title":{"rendered":"More on Smart Meter Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Giberson<\/em><\/p>\n

From the Houston Chronicle<\/em>, “Smart meter power usage data isn’t so current<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

A Web site touted this week as providing near real-time power use information to electricity customers with new smart meters actually delays the information by up to two days, CenterPoint Energy has acknowledged.<\/p>\n

… The company said Monday the site would give consumers with smart meters information about their power usage in 15-minute intervals so they could make better choices about how much power they use.<\/p>\n

Not mentioned in the news releases from the company and state regulators was that the 15-minute incremental information can take as long as 48 hours to hit the Web site.<\/p>\n

Apparently the timeliness issue was discussed in the regulatory process that preceded roll-out of the system.\u00a0 Retail electric providers favored real-time data, but “transmission companies like CenterPoint argued that consumers wouldn’t really need the data any sooner than the following day.”<\/p>\n

I’m of about three opinions about this issue.\u00a0 The article quotes the CEO of an energy management company as saying “2- to 3-day-old data … is all but useless.”\u00a0 I agree, more or less.\u00a0 The data isn’t useless – an interested homeowner or business manager could still learn quite a bit from examining 15-minute interval data from a few days earlier – but the delay does sap the immediacy from the system and makes it harder to put the information to use.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, being able to access 2-day old data on power consumption at the 15-minute interval level is light-years ahead of the situation that most consumers find themselves in.\u00a0 Currently I get an electric bill that reports a “previous [meter] read” and a “current [meter] read.”\u00a0 No explicit dates are attached to the two bits of information, but I’m guessing the first number is from about 5 weeks before the billing date and the second one from about 1 week prior to the billing date.\u00a0 This<\/em> kind of meter data is “all but useless;” interval data from a few days ago would be super fantastic.<\/p>\n

Almost no smart grid benefits will emerge directly from Smart Meter Texas, but that is okay.\u00a0 It is only a taste of the possibilities, not the full smart grid smorgasbord.\u00a0 This system is not “the end,” it is one beginning.<\/p>\n

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