There will be an APPA webinar on Advanced Metering Infrastructure on November 18_th, 2021, from 1PM-2PM CST. This webinar will feature John Bilsten from Algona Municipal Utilities and will cover Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Insights.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) can get you a lot of great data, but what's the best way for small utilities to use it to make conclusions about their customers' behavior and rate classes? 

Since 2016, Algona Municipal Utilities and Iowa State University’s Electric Power Research Center have collaborated to create a tool which summarizes very large AMI data sets into smaller, organized files with summary results, exporting analyses as tables and graphs. The latest version of the tool, which incorporates machine-learning and clustering techniques into its design, doesn’t just help define customer rate classes. The tool can set minimum demand definitions and identify customers whose usage may differ from their assigned rate class, offering utilities the opportunity to reassign or even redesign rate classes as needed. It puts power back in the hands of public power utilities by allowing them to check the accuracy of AMI analysis provided by billing and meter data management contractors. 

During this webinar, researchers from ISU will share their work making in-house AMI analysis easier than ever through their ongoing partnership with Algona Municipal Utilities and the DEED Program. DEED members can check out this project's DEED Project Library page for more information on the tool.

Recommended For

Any public power system which gathers AMI or SCADA data.

Rates

• DEED members: Free
• APPA members: $109
• Non-members: $209

Speakers include John Bilsten, Anne Kimber, Shahnawaz Siddiqui, and Nichelle’Le Carrington

Join this webinar November 18, 2021, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. CST.  

Click here to register

IAMU was awarded a research grant by the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program. 

IAMU received $72,790 to create a plug-in electric vehicle (EV) planning and implementation toolkit for municipal utilities.

The American Public Power Association is the national organization serving the interests of the nation’s more than 2,000 community- and state-owned electric utilities. The association established the DEED program in 1980 to sponsor and conduct activities related to energy innovation that improve efficiency or lower costs in providing energy services to consumers of publicly owned electric utilities. DEED funds are used to support innovative utility programs. IAMU is a member of the Association and DEED.

A few weeks, we introduced you to Jeb Kopera, the energy services intern at IAMU.  The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities received a grant from the American Public Power Association Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program to sponsor the internship for Jeb, an Industrial Engineering student at Iowa State University.  Jeb has been instrumental in assisting members with the filing of their biennial IUB energy efficiency reports, and has brought fresh ideas to energy services to better assist our members.

APPA is the national organization serving the interests of the nation’s more than 2,000 community- and state-owned electric utilities.  The association established the DEED program in 1980 to sponsor and conduct activities related to energy innovation that improve efficiency or lower costs in providing energy services to consumers of publicly owned electric utilities.  DEED funds are used to support innovative utility programs.  IAMU is a member of APPA and DEED.

For more information on APPA and DEED programs please visit their website.  To learn more about how your utility can successfully apply for DEED grants and other funding opportunities, register for IAMU’s grant workshop on August 3 at our facility in Ankeny.