Smart meters have become increasingly common as an approach to benchmark and assess building energy use. In this paper, we explore what type of metering infrastructure may be required to derive value from the application of smart meters in the commercial and industrial sectors. As an example, we find that sole reliance upon a site-level smart meter—which has been the focus of most existing deployment models—provides sufficient data to extract summary statistics about how the energy use of a given site may compare to a typical ‘average’ site, but such installations fail to provide adequate detail about where the energy use is occurring or why any discrepancies might be occurring. To resolve these issues, we install a multi-tier advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) at a mixed use (industrial and commercial) campus. We use this AMI deployment to gain insight at different levels of the consumption hierarchy—from sites to buildings, panels, sub-panels, and end loads. The paper concludes by discussing the trade-offs associated with such augmented metering at each level within the hierarchy, with a view towards providing guidelines for AMI deployment at other industrial and commercial campuses.
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ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology
July 23–26, 2012
San Diego, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Advanced Energy Systems Division
- Solar Energy Division
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978-0-7918-4481-6
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Exploring Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployments for Commercial and Industrial Sites
Allison Littman,
Allison Littman
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
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Geoff Lyon,
Geoff Lyon
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
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Amip Shah,
Amip Shah
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
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John Vogler
John Vogler
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
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Allison Littman
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
Geoff Lyon
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
Amip Shah
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
John Vogler
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
Paper No:
ES2012-91012, pp. 979-989; 11 pages
Published Online:
July 23, 2013
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Littman, A, Lyon, G, Shah, A, & Vogler, J. "Exploring Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployments for Commercial and Industrial Sites." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Parts A and B. San Diego, California, USA. July 23–26, 2012. pp. 979-989. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2012-91012
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