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1 Stephen Nees Technology Development Manager Anaheim Public Utilities forges ahead with its AMI

2 Population > 340,000 10 th largest city in California Mediterranean climate 70 degrees F average 9.8 inches annual rainfall – but not this year! 50 square miles City of Anaheim

3 24 th largest US public power utility 2700 GWh annual energy sales 593 MW summer peak (07/06) 110,000 customers Lowest power costs in Orange County Anaheim Public Utilities

4 Commercial advanced metering 700 largest customers Account for over 50% of usage and revenue Advanced metering pilot Multiple vendors Demand response pilot What have we done?

5 Completed Jan, 2007 4 options evaluated Long payback periods Recommendation Strategic deployment MDMS key component Multiple AMI vendors Business Case Analysis

6 Build the core infrastructure Why? Prepare for the future Legislative Regulatory Customer Information Improved operations and service More Business Case

7 Consultant retained RFP development RFP scoring Key factors Future enterprise service bus Multi-vendor AMI support System integration CIS – Sungard H.T.E. OMS – Advanced Control Systems Work and asset management – Oracle/SPL MDMS Request for Proposals

8 Review board established All divisions represented Reviewed and scored the proposals Vendor demonstrations/presentations Evaluated risk factors Financial stability Management stability Architecture/technology MDMS Selection

9 Review board consensus Recommendation to Anaheim PUB Anaheim City Council Approval 8/21/07 – Last night!! More MDMS Selection

10 Two vendor ‘head-end’ systems already in place Large commercial/industrial Residential – capable of supporting commercial Currently two vendor systems - bidirectional Public data network(s) for large commercial/industrial Hybrid mesh RF network (licensed/unlicensed) Planning on adding a third tested system Mesh network Master agreements for equipment What about AMI?

11 Increased options for AMI New vendors New/different communications technologies Wi-Fi BPL Increased competition Upside – reduced costs Downside – confusion at all levels Education Internal Customer Local regulators in our case Observations

12 Questions?


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