Smart Partner of utilities
Transformation
Enabler
AN INCREASINGLY DYNAMIC AND DECENTRALIZED ENERGY SYSTEM WILL REQUIRE UTILITIES TO EVOLVE EXISTING WAYS OF DOING BUSINESS AND PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW OFFERINGS. SYSTEM OPERATORS PLANNING TO UNDERTAKE STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSETS WILL NEED TO SELECT PARTNERS WITH A CLEAR VISION OF HOW THE FAST-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE WILL DEVELOP.
LANDIS+GYR’S CAPABILITIES AND SOLUTIONS
Landis+Gyr’s comprehensive portfolio of scalable Smart Grid products and services helps utilities transform their business models and prepare for a more decentralized and connected future. Covering a wide range of hardware and software solutions, Landis+Gyr provides utilities with measurement, network communications, grid monitoring, resource management and analytics tools, as well as products to meet customers’ tailored requirements.
Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream® solution harnesses the power of data to effectively respond to current and future challenges, delivering the tools for users to leverage their investments more effectively. Thanks to its flexibility, advanced grid infrastructure, analytics, and software solutions can be gradually integrated within a utility’s existing infrastructure or hosted within the cloud and delivered as a stand-alone service.
Gridstream®’s versatile, scalable, and interoperable features offer customer-tailored solutions for Smart Grid operations. These include a modular, intuitive, web-based interface, allowing utilities to optimize grid performance and asset management, while improving customer service and integration. Landis+Gyr’s smart solutions also enable utilities to manage DER and battery storage assets more effectively, two developing trends which will be particularly important in the future.
Case
SALT RIVER PROJECT (SRP) PARTNERED WITH LANDIS+GYR TO DEPLOY A COMMUNICATION PLATFORM THAT SUPPORTS ADVANCED METERING, ADDS TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION TO ITS LEGACY PREPAYMENT SYSTEM, IMPLEMENTS PREPAYMENT FUNCTIONALITY AT EACH AMI METER OVER THE AIR, AND SUPPORTS OTHER SMART GRID APPLICATIONS. TODAY, MORE THAN 150,000 SRP CUSTOMERS IN ARIZONA USE THE METER-DRIVEN PREPAYMENT SYSTEM FROM LANDIS+GYR TO MONITOR, MANAGE, AND PAY FOR ELECTRICITY.
SALT RIVER PROJECT
SRP is the third-largest public power utility in the US, serving more than 1 million customers in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
PREPAYMENT PIONEER
In the 1990s, SRP launched a highly successful prepayment program to help its customers save both money and energy. The award-winning program quickly grew into the country’s largest prepayment program. In order to keep pace with changes in the industry, such as increasing distributed resources and the integration of renewables, and to provide customers new services and more options for energy management, SRP was seeking a solution for modernizing its prepayment infrastructure.
LANDIS+GYR SOLUTION: FOCUS ON CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Landis+Gyr’s smart prepayment solution utilizes the Advanced Metering, two-way communication platform as the backbone. Smart Meters that contain edge computing capability and applications provide the logic and communication needed to support the prepayment program. An in-home display terminal offers real-time access to usage, source and cost of power as well as account balance.
Thanks to the multi-purpose connected communication platform, SRP can provide its customers with a growing list of services, such as outage and restoration e-notifications, and flexible billing options that help retail customers save money and match household budget, lifestyle and energy use needs. In addition, SRP is offering a load control program that includes programmable communicating thermostats and load control switches. Some program participants are also using a demand manager application developed by Landis+Gyr that can automate Load Management actions for customers on demand rates. SRP continues to lead with innovative energy management options for its consumers.
