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The purpose of this course is to present a utility’s AMI system implementation not as a singular event but as a series of four stages with their own goals, tasks, and success metrics. These four stages include design, deployment, operations, and using the AMI system to support T&D operations.
Attendees will learn that each stage has its own technical and staffing challenges, goals and success criteria in terms of KPIs. Each stage also has its own collection of issues and constraints, which are not readily apparent, but have been experienced by other utilities in their implementation. This course will show those managing an AMI implementation, regardless of the stage they are currently in, how issues can be avoided and present the best practices for meeting their KPIs. This course will help those in the earlier stages of deployment to identify and then aggregate the goals and success criteria of all stages.
Attendees will learn:
- Recommended KPIs for each stage
- Constraint identification and avoidance methods
- Ensuring initial design meets the needs of all stages
- Optimizing deployment and operations including tool descriptions not supplied by AMI vendors
- Specific applications that can support T&D operations using AMI data to include advanced Volt-VAR management, high impedance fault detection, advanced OMS support, and residential solar issue identification and management
Who Should Attend This Course:
- The AMI technical and management team associated with the design, deployment, and operations of the system as well as IT, metering, revenue services, and security staff assigned to the AMI implementation team. Also, those in support of the AMI rate case and those associated with the developing use cases for using AMI data for T&D operations.
Prerequisite skills, knowledge, certifications: None