Multi Utility Meter Report Ed 6 2007

Table of Contents

Table of Figures

Table of Tables

1. Executive Summary

• Evolution in the meter market
• The installed base of all utility meters and demand
• Electricity meters installed base and demand
• Gas meters installed base and demand
• Water meters installed base and demand
• Trends in the electricity meter sector, electromechanical and solid state meters
• Trends in the gas meter sector
• Trends in the water meter sector, positive displacement and velocimetric meters
• AMR - AMI
• Manufacturers and the metering value chain
• Electricity meter companies
• Gas meter companies
• Water meter companies
• Metrology regulations and type approval

2. Meter Population and Demand

• Electricity
• Gas
• Water

3. Demand Drivers

• New household connections
• New commercial and industrial connections
• Replacement of aging meters
• Other gas market trends
• Conversion from electromechanical to basic solid state meters
• Up-grading to advanced meters
• Prepayment meters
• The metrics of the meter market

4. Market shares by company

• 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
• Electricity meter companies
• Electricity meter market shares in Europe
  • Iskraemeco (Iskra)
  • Other electricity meter companies
  • Chinese electricity meter manufacturers
• Electricity meter market shares in the USA and Canada
• Electricity meter market shares in China
• Electricity meter market shares in Japan
• Electricity meter market shares in Brazil
• Electricity meter market shares in Indonesia
• Electricity meter market shares in Mexico
• Electricity meter market shares in Iran
• Gas meter companies
  • Europe
  • United States
  • China
  • India
  • Japan
• Water meter companies
• Meter trends and installed base of meters
• Electricity meters, 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
• Gas meter trends
• Water meter trends
• Mechanical metering
  • Domestic Metering
  • Non-mechanical metering

5. Sub-metering

• Trends in water metering incidence in single family households and apartments
  • Water scarcity and conservation
  • Sector reform and market liberalisation
  • Price structures
  • Full cost recovery
  • Market liberalisation
  • Multiple objectives
  • Demand side management
  • Metering and sub-metering trends
  • CIS countries
• Country Profiles

6. Bulgaria - Meter Market Profile

• 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

7. Czech Republic - Meter Market Profile

• 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
  • Other meter suppliers include:
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

8. France - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Billing
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

9. Germany - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • Market trend
  • Prices
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Households
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Prices
  • Utility background

10. Hungary - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR - AMI
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility Background

11. Italy - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

12. Netherlands - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

13. Poland - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water Meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR - AMM
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background
  • Utilities
  • Water prices and regulation
  • Foreign investment in the water and waste sector in Poland
  • Private Polish participation

14. Romania - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

15. Russia - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Market development
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and certification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background
  • The current water sector in Russia and the CIS
  • Foreign water companies involved in Russia
  • Russian private water companies

16. Spain - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

17. Sweden - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

18. Turkey - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Inspection and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR - AMI
  • Type approval
  • Inspection and verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

19. United Kingdom - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Re-verification and inspection
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

20. Argentina - Meter Market Profile

• Electricity meters
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Meter types - electromechanical, solid state
  • AMR - AMI
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual Demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and certification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

21. Brazil - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

22. Canada - Meter Market Profile

• 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
  • Implications for manufacturers
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Inspections and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual Meter Demand
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Water payment practices
  • Meter market participants
  • Conforming meters
  • Utility background

23. Mexico - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Downstream: transportation, distribution and storage
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual Meter Demand
  • Meter Types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

24. United States - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards, type approval and certification
  • The natural gas measurement jurisdictions
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual Demand
  • Meter Types
  • AMR
  • National Standards
  • Type approval and certification
  • Type approval
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

25. Australia - Meter Market Profile

• Electricity meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types - electromechanical, solid state, and market trend
  • Meter regulations
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Major participants
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • Meter regulations
  • Initial verification
  • Re-verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

26. China - Meter Market Profile

• Electricity meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • Market trend
  • Prices
  • Tariffs
  • Prepayment meters
  • AMR - AMI
  • Standards
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Market trend - development of the natural gas market in
  • Exploration and transmission
  • Internal market development and distribution
  • Market factors for natural gas
  • Natural gas prices and effect on development
  • Relations with customers
  • Metering, pricing and billing
  • Connection fee
  • Utility background
  • Standards
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Demand growth
  • Factors affecting water meter demand
  • Macro economic statistics
  • Water crisis
  • Parallel forecasts
  • Meter types and trends
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Price
  • Meter market participants
  • Water sector background
  • Municipal water supply infrastructure
  • Industrial water supply infrastructure
  • New Water Resource Law
  • Water supply
  • Water sector reform
  • Municipal water price
  • Foreign investment
  • Imported products

27. India - Meter Market Profile

• 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
  • Imported meters
  • Utility background
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Gas distribution companies
• Water meters
  • Residential access to piped water
  • Water connections and meter penetration
  • Connections in all urban India
  • Annual Demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background
  • The current state of urban water provision
  • Pricing of water

28. Indonesia - Meter Market Profile

• 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

29. Japan - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand for both city gas and LPG
  • The gas market in Japan
  • Piped city gas
  • LPG
  • Safety problems
  • Meter types
  • New ultrasonic meter for residential use
  • Commercial and industrial
  • Market trend
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
• Water meters
  • Water meter penetration of dwellings
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Market factors
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Meter market participants
  • Utility background

30. Malaysia - Meter Market Profile

• 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

31. Taiwan - Meter Market Profile

• 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

32. Thailand - Meter Market Profile

• 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. Vietnam - Meter Market Profile

• 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

34. Iran - Meter Market Profile

• 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
• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards and type approval
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification, inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

35. Advanced Metering

• Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) / Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
• 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
  • Customer Service
  • Economic value
  • Electric and gas 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

36. Metrology, standards, type approval and verification

• Legislation for measuring instruments
  • 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
• African Infrastructure
  • SADC
  • SADCMET, SADC Cooperation in Measurement Traceability
  • Accreditation - SADCA
  • Legal Metrology - SADCMEL

37. Standards

• International Standards
  • Electricity meter standards
  • Terminology
  • IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
  • ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  • Gas meter standards
  • Water meter standards
• National Standards
  • ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  • BSI - British Standards Institution
  • DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V.

38. 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 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
      • 3.1.3 Regional associations
      • 3.1.4 Miscellaneous reports
      • 3.1.5 Household statistics multiplied by electrification, gasification and water access
    • 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

39. Meter Types

• Electricity meter type
  • 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
• Gas meter type
  • Diaphragm / bellows meters
  • Rotary meters
  • Turbine meters
  • Orifice meters
  • Ultrasonic flow meters
  • Coriolis meters
  • Turndown ratio and rangeability
  • Typical turndown ratio of various meter types
  • ‘Smart' / advanced meters
  • Heating value
• Water meter type
  • Positive displacement meters
  • Velocity or velocimetric water meters
  • Multi jet meters
  • Turbine meters
  • Woltman meters
  • Compound meters
  • Electromagnetic meters

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41. Tables