[Report] World Electricity Meter Report Ed 6

1. Executive Summary
- Evolution in the meter market
- The installed base of meters and demand in 2007
- Electromechanical and solid state meters
- AMR - AMI
- Manufacturers and company consolidations
- Metrology regulations and type approval
2. Meter population and demand
3. Demand Drivers
- New household connections
- New commercial and industrial connections
- Replacement of aging meters
- Up-grading to advanced meters
- Prepayment meters
- The metrics of the meter market
4. Terminology of meters
- Electromechanical induction meters, also called mechanical or Ferraris meters
- Solid state, also called static, or electronic
- Digital meters
- Time of use meters (TOU)
- Demand meters
- Demand Response
- AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
- Advanced meters
- AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Smart meters
- MDM, Meter Data Management
- Communication modules
5. Market Shares by Company for Selected Countries
- The origins of the metering industry - electricity, gas and water
- Landis & Gyr
- Actaris
- Elster Group
- The metering industry in mid-2007
- Elster Group - No 1 with revenue of $1,784 million
- Itron - Actaris - No 2 with revenue of $1,659 million
- Bayard Group No 3 with revenue of $1.2 billion
- Market shares in Europe
- Iskraemeco (Iskra)
- Other meter companies
- Chinese meter manufacturers
- Market shares in the USA and Canada
- Market shares in China
- Market shares in Japan
- Market shares in Brazil
- Market shares in Indonesia
- Market shares in Mexico
- Market shares in Iran
6. Meter Trends, Electromechanical and Solid state
- Installed base of electromechanical and solid state meters
- Future shipments of solid state meters
- Accounting treatment of in-service meters
- The global installed base of electromechanical meters
7. Country Profiles
- Europe
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Americas
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
- Asia Pacific
- Australia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Middle East
- Iran
8. Bulgaria
- Electricity Meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR- AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility Background
9. Czech Republic
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
- 10. France
- Electricity Meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- Tariff system
- AMR - AMI
- Standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
11. Germany
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Market trend
- Prices
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants and manufacturers
- Utility background and market characteristics
12. Hungary
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
13. Italy
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend - AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants and manufacturers
- Utility background
14. Netherlands
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
15. Poland
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
16. Romania
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
17. Russia
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval and verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
- Generation companies
- Transmission and distribution
- Retail companies
18. Spain
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Market Trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
19. Sweden
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- AMR market shares
- Camera meter reader
- Scandinavian developments
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
20. Turkey
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- Prepayment
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Inspection and verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
21. United Kingdom
- Electricity Meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Credit and prepayment meters
- AMR - AMI
- Historical barriers
- Standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Prices
- Market participants
- Market shares, prepayment meters
- Utility background
22.Argentina
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval and verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
23.Brazil
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Market trend
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Tariff system
- AMR - AMI
- Energy theft
- Type approval
- Market access
- Market participants
- Utility background
24.Canada
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Meter life
- Market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Electricity standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
25.Mexico
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, market trends
- Electromechanical meters
- Solid state meters
- AMR - AMI
- Electricity standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
26. United States
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Leading AMR suppliers, market shares
- Electricity standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- Developing metrological standards
- Regulating the devices used for meter testing
- Market participants
- Utility background
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- Meter regulations
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
27. China
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- Installed base domestic
- Market trend
- Prices
- Tariffs
- Prepayment meters
- AMR - AMI
- Standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
- Generation
- Transmission networks
28. India
- Electricity meters
- Households, electricity customer, and metered customers in India
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- Market trend
- Demographic trend
- Metering trend
- Prices
- AMR - AMI
- Metering regulations
- Type approval
- Standards
- Calibration and periodic testing
- Inter-face meters
- Consumer meters
- Energy accounting and audit meters
- New technologies
- Accredited laboratories and testing facilities
- Market participants
- Solid state meters
- Electromechanical meters
- Utility background
29. Indonesia
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- Prepayment meters
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
30. Japan
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
- AMR - AMI
- Tokyo Electric Power Company
- Shikoku Electric Power Company in Japan
- Kyushu Electric Power Co
- Standards
- Type approval
- Initial verification and re-verification
- Market participants
- Utility background
31. Malayasia
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI - MDM (Meter data management)
- Prepayment meters
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
32. Taiwan
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
33.Thailand
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter Types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
34. Vietnam
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Defective meters
- Major participants
- Utility background
35. Iran
- Electricity meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
- AMR - AMI
- Standards and type approval
- Type approval
- Initial verification, inspection and re-verification
- Major participants
- Utility background
36. Advanced Metering
- AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
- AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- The origins and history of advanced metering
- AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
- MDMS, Meter Data Management System
- Evolution of metering technology
- Reasons for deploying advanced metering
- Regulatory direction
- Customer benefits
- Economic value
- Electric supply operations
- Costs for AMI
- Meter Reading Technologies
- Handheld meter reading, with or without AMR
- Mobile AMR
- Fixed network AMR
- Means of fixed network communication
- RF, Radio Frequency
- Cellular
- PLC, Power Line Carrier
- Telephone/Internet
- Other means of AMR communication
- Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
- Demand response
- Deployment of AMR
- Electricity, Water or Gas
- Effect of Size
- Leading US AMR Suppliers
- Itron
- Cellnet Data Systems, Inc
- Hunt Technologies Inc.
- DCSI, Distribution Control Systems Inc.
- Leach Industries
- Echelon Corporation
- Other major AMR vendors
- Major US AMR manufacturers' market shares
- Some Non-US AMR Companies
37. Metrology, standards, type approval and verification
- Legislation for measuring instruments
- Enforcement of measuring instrument legislation - legal control
- Type approval
- Verification and testing
- National metrology institutes
- Designated national laboratories
- Accredited laboratories
- Global metrology infrastructure
- ILAC
- OIML
- Regional metrology infrastructures
- Europe
- Accreditation - EA
- Legal metrology - WELMEC
- EU legislation for measuring instruments
- EU controlled measuring instruments
- EU - MID - Measuring Instruments Directive
- The producer' s responsibility
- The government' s responsibility
- Market surveillance
- Americas Infrastructure
- SIM, Inter American Metrology System
- Legal Metrology
- Accreditation - IAAC
- Asia Pacific Infrastructure
- APMP, Asia Pacific Metrology Programme
- Accreditation - APLAC
- CIS, Central Asia Infrastructure
- COOMET, Cooperation Metrologique for Euro Asia
38. Standards
- International Standards
- Terminology
- IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- National Standards
- ANSI, American National Standards Institute
- BSI, British Standards Institution
- DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V.
39. Methodology and Technical Notes
- 1. Creation and maintenance of the ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
- 2. Compilation and analysis of official statistics for creation of the installed base and to define the metrics of annual demand and projections
- 3. Market estimation and projections using official statistics and the metrics of annual demand and projections in four stages
- 4. Validation with known demand data and industry interviews
- 1. ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
  - Literature search
  - Regulators
  - National energy projections and demand forecasts
  - Government enquiries
  - Competition authorities
  - Parliamentary questions and enquiries
  - SEC Filings
  - Metrological Bureaux
  - Trade Associations
  - Socio/economic studies
  - Submetering
  - Company reports and presentations
  - Press
  - Electricity
  - Gas
  - Water
- 2. Compilation an analysis of official statistics for creation of the installed base and to define
  - the metrics of annual demand and projections
  - Households' population of each country
  - Economic data
  - Electricity customers
  - Meter production statistics
  - Import/export statistics
- 3. Market estimation and projections using official statistics and the metrics of annual
  - demand and projections in four stages
  - 3.1 The installed base of electricity meters in 2006
    - 3.1.1 Utility reports of numbers of customers
    - 3.1.2 National government or industry associations reporting numbers of customers
    - 3.1.2 Regional associations
    - 3.1.3 Miscellaneous reports
    - 3.1.4 Household statistics multiplied by electrification
  - 3. 2 Theoretical calculation of annual demand for new meters in 2006
    - 3.2.1 New residential installations
    - 3.2.2 New C&I installations
    - 3.2.3 Residential replacements
    - 3.2.4 C&I replacements
    - 3.2.5 Up-grading from electromechanical to electronic or to advanced meters
    - 3.2.6 Imports and exports
  - 3.3 Specific reports of annual meter demand
  - 3.4 Forecasting for 2007 to 2011
    - 3.4.1 Growth in residential meter demand
    - 3.4.2 Growth in C&I meter demand
    - 3.4.3 Value estimates
- 4. Validation with known demand data and industry interviews
40. Tables

Figures

Figure 2.1: Population of electricity meters and annual demand, 2007 by Region
Figure 3.1: Population and household size, developed and developing world, 1985-2030
Figure 3.2: Numbers of households by region, 1985 to 2030
Figure 5.1: Global market shares of meter manufacturers, 2006
Figure 6.1: Installed base of electromechanical and solid state meters by region, 2007
Figure 6.2: Installed meter bases in 2006 and 2012, electromechanical and solid state
Figure 27.1: Installed base of meters by type 1997 to 2020
Figure 36.1: Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
Figure 36.2: World AMR Cumulative Installations by Region, 2000 to 2010
Figure 36.3: Annual US demand for AMR installations in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
Figure 36.4: Installed base of AMR in the USA in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
Figure 36.5: Market shares of AMR suppliers in North America, 2007
Figure 37.1: Regional metrology organisations

Tables

Table 5.1: Manufacturers shares
Table 6.1: Electromechanical and solid state electricity meters cumulative installed base in 2006 in major countries, millions
Table 8.1: Meter demand per year
Table 8.2: Bulgaria ESI Summary
Table 9.1: Meter demand per year
Table 9.2: Czech Republic ESI Summary
Table 10.1: Meter demand per year
Table 10.2: France ESI Summary
Table 11.1: Meter demand per year
Table 11.2: Germany ESI Summary
Table 12.1: Meter demand per year
Table 12.2: Hungary ESI Summary
Table 13.1: Meter demand per year
Table 13.2: Italy ESI Summary
Table 14.1: Meter demand per year
Table 14.2: Netherlands ESI Summary
Table 15.1: Meter demand per year
Table 15.2: Poland ESI Summary
Table 16.1: Meter demand per year
Table 16.2: Romania ESI Summary
Table 17.1: Meter demand per year
Table 17.2: Russia ESI Summary
Table 18.1: Meter demand per year
Table 18.2: Spain ESI Summary
Table 19.1: Meter demand per year
Table 19.2: Sweden ESI Summary
Table 20.1: Meter demand per year
Table 20.2: Turkey ESI Summary
Table 21.1: Meter demand per year
Table 21.2: UK Market shares, prepayment meters
Table 21.3: UK ESI Summary
Table 22.1: Meter demand per year
Table 22.2: Argentina ESI Summary
Table 23.1: Meter demand per year
Table 23.2: Brazil ESI Summary
Table 24.1: Meter demand per year
Table 24.2: Canada ESI Summary
Table 25.1: Meter demand per year
Table 25.2: Mexico installed base of meters, 2006
Table 25.3: Mexico ESI Summary
Table 26.1: Meter demand per year
Table 26.2: Electricity meter units shipped 2002-2005 (excluding imports and exports)
Table 26.3: Market Share of Principal Suppliers of AMR to Electrical Utilities in the USA, 2004
Table 26.4: USA ESI Summary
Table 26.5: Meter demand per year
Table 26.6: Australia ESI Summary
Table 27.1: Meter demand per year
Table 27.2: China ESI Summary
Table 28.1: Meter demand per year
Table 28.2: India annual meter demand analysis (2003-2006)
Table 28.3: India ESI Summary
Table 29.1: Meter demand per year
Table 29.2: Indonesia Republic ESI Summary
Table 30.1: Meter demand per year
Table 30.2: Japan ESI Summary
Table 31.1: Meter demand per year
Table 31.2: Malaysia ESI Summary
Table 32.1: Meter demand per year
Table 32.2: Taiwan ESI Summary
Table 33.1: Meter demand per year
Table 33.2Thailand ESI Summary'
Table 34.1: Meter demand per year
Table 34.2: Vietnam ESI Summary
Table 35.1: Meter demand per year
Table 35.2: Iran ESI Summary
Table 36.1: Approximate installed cost for AMR systems US 2006
Table 36.2: Comparison of Manual Meter Reading, AMR and AMI
Table 36.3: Meter System Applications
Table 37.1: Member countries of EURAMET e.V., 2007
Table 38.1: Four main bodies which determine standards
Table 38.2: IEC Standards for Watt-hour Meters
Table 38.3: ANSI Standards for Watt-hour Meters
Table 39.1: Sources for installed base of electricity meters
Table 39.2: New and replacement installations of meters in the United Kingdom
Table 39.3: New and replacement installations of meters in the Brazil
Table 39.4:New and replacement installations of meters in the Bangladesh
Table 40.1: Electricity Meter Market - Production, Imports, Exports, Demand 2000, US$ Value
Table 40.2: Electricity Meter Demand by Category of Meter 2005, Units
Table 40.3: Electricity Meter Demand Forecasts 2005-2010, Units
Table 40.4: Electricity Meter Demand Forecasts 2005-2010, 2005 US$ Value
Table 40.5: Exports of Major Countries 1997-2002, Units
Table 40.6: Exports of Major Countries 1997-2002, US$ Value
Table 40.7: Average Export Price per Unit
Table 40.8: Unit Trade, Exports from Major Countries, 2004 Units (in separate Excel database)

World Electricity Meter Report Ed 6 - 2007

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