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Australian Smart Meters to use WiMAX

Amplify’d from www.govtech.com

Australian Smart Meters to use WiMAX

The Victoria, Australia’s Government Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program took another step today with the announcement of an agreement to roll out 680,000 smart meters by 2013. The agreement — between SP AusNet and a dozen companies — will utilize WiMAX technology to communicate electrical consumption from the meters back to the distribution system.Read more at www.govtech.com
 

Will Smart Meters Save Much Power?

Sounds like we need a new design - or perhaps focussing on other initiatives (like standardised efficient technologies)

http://energyict.amplify.com/2009/09/23/smart-grid-trial-saves-15-power-on-average/

Amplify’d from spectrum.ieee.org

The Smart Meter Avalanche

The Edison Electric Institute, hosting a press briefing today on the smart grid, distributed an enumeration of smart grid rollouts
EEI’s media briefing was devoted mainly to the implications of smart metering for customers and distributors, in terms of energy conservation, monetary savings, improved reliability, and more efficient, less expensive maintenance. The representative of one energy company said it stands to make or save, over 15 years, $2.5 billion on a smart meter investment of $500 million.
According to one calculation circulating this week, installation of 100 million smart meters in the United States might generate 100 petabytes per year of data that need to be transmitted, archived, and manipulated.
By comparison, Google handles 20 PB of data daily, observes Katie Fehrenbacher of Earth2Tech.com, who publicized Dahany’s calculation.   Read more at spectrum.ieee.org