Silicon Valley Power (SVP) is a municipal utility with 51,000 electric and 27,000 water meters. Silicon Valley Power is the trademark adopted for use by the century-old Electric Department of the City of Santa Clara, California. SVP provides power to more than 50,000 customers, including Applied Materials, Intel, National Semiconductor and Yahoo!, at rates 25 to 45 percent below neighboring communities. SVP is undertaking an AMI project entitled SVP’s Meter Connect program that will serve all 51,000 residential and commercial electric customers and migrate all water meters into the system over time.
SVP chose Siemens as a strategic partner to provide the foundational solution to manage the increased amount of data collected by advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) under its Meter Connect program. As SVP rolls out its AMI solution over the coming years, EnergyIP will serve as the foundation for its Smart Grid vision and support the maturing needs of the growing project. The meter data management system (MDMS) will support SVP’s goals to deliver greater operational efficiency, revenue protection, customer service and environmental and societal benefits, as well as improve customer satisfaction with City SVP utility-related services. The system also will enhance utility power system engineering and operations by providing greater access to system data.
In order to achieve these goals, SVP is developing the essential architecture today to support the real-time processing of meter reads, coupled with the future ability to track and manage new technology devices in the home, such as home area networks (HAN), smart thermostats and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). EnergyIP integrates these Smart Grid options to allow SVP to provide maximum consumer choice now and in the future.
The Siemens implementation team will implement EnergyIP to support its complete meter-to-bill process, AMI deployment, and other business processes.