Comed filed a petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission to begin work on a 141,000 AMI smart meter pilot program within its Chicagoland service area.
ComEd proposes to install approximately 100,000 meters in a demographicallyvaried, yet operationally manageable, footprint that includes nine towns in its Maywood operating area: Bellwood, Berwyn, Broadview, Forest Park, Hillside, Maywood, Melrose Park, Oak Park, and River Forest. ComEd proposes to install approximately 30,000 AMI meters within the City of Chicago and approximately 10,000 in the City of Elgin.
The pilot will be designed to demonstrate the effect smart meters have on consumers. The goal will be to determine what set circumstances will lead to the greatest energy and cost savings. The results of this year long pilot will help the utility design a possible future deployment of AMI technology to the rest of their 3.1 million consumers.
Other smart meter pilot programs have found that a key contributor to maximizing cost savings is dynamic pricing. Like Power Smart Pricing, this gives consumers a financial incentive to shift their usage. The results of this pilot will certainly be influential around the rest of the state as well as the nation.
More from Earth2Tech on the AMI pilot.
June 2, 2009
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