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Alliance focuses on remote meter telemetry

A Jekyll Electronic Technology product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 3, 2006

Western Power is working with Jekyll Electronic Technology to provide customers with more cost-effective ways of remotely collecting meter data.

Western Power has been in the electricity industry for over 20 years and is the electricity distribution company for South West England, and South and West Wales.

It delivers electricity to 2.5 million customers over a 26,000km2 service area.

A growing area in competitive metering is the half-hourly data collection market.

All sites with an electricity demand higher than 100kW require half-hourly metering.

Here, data are collected remotely, the amount used verified and then sent to the supplier to provide the billing.

Half-hourly metering gives the user an energy profile that not only shows how much is being used but how it is used, ie whether by power hungry equipment, in the case of factories.

By analysing these data, energy costs can be reduced.

In this customer-driven market, the Remote Metering Department at Western Power has been working with Jekyll Electronic Technology to provide customers with more cost-effective ways of remotely collecting these data.

Using the latest technology including SMS and GPRS, costs can be significantly reduced, and the benefits of half-hourly metering could be extended to the 250,000 customers in the UK who use between 50-100kW.

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