Energy companies to invest in Advanced Meter Infrastructure for the future Smart Grid

In the run up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, energy reducing measures are now a high priority on many Governments' agenda.

[UKPRwire, Thu Nov 12 2009] In the run up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, energy reducing measures are now a high priority on many Governments' agenda. In the next few weeks, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is set to reveal how it will replace 47 million gas and electricity meters with new smart energy meters in every British home, office and factory by 2020 - at a cost of around £10 billion.

Across the world, energy companies are looking into advanced powerline technology for its reliability, efficiency and performance to enable Smart Meter connection as part of the future Smart Grid.

DS2's advanced powerline technology is taking the lead in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to provide a real-time, fully scalable and reliable communication network with self healing features and enhance distribution network control and power quality management. The newly ratified ITU-T G.hn standard means that devices, such as smart meters, will be able to establish secure two-way communication channels with any other products.

"Smart Grids based on DS2 technology is plug-and-play, uses the Utilities own infrastructure and provide the capability to reach the most remote parts of the grid," explained Ann Whyte, Director of Corporate Communications at DS2. "This makes implementation cheap, reliable and efficient. Intelligent Smart Grids will reduce energy companies' running costs by providing real-time network planning and management, avoiding outages, anticipating demand and even eliminating customer service time spent on dealing with estimated bills. Increasingly, utility companies across Europe, the US and APAC are realising the benefits that powerline technology can bring to improve their electricity grid efficiency and build their own intelligent Smart Grids.

Please click here to download the illustration graphic showing how this works from home to workplace and from power station to windfarm.

If you would like additional information on the AMI system, or the intelligent Smart Grids, please email Caroline Addy on caddy@iba-international.com