SMART METER: BEYOND KWH

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SMART METER: BEYOND KWH

INDONESIA' S JOURNEY AND CHALLENGES ON ADAPTING SMART METER

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With technological developments moving consumer goods and manufacturing methods towards electrification, increasing quality of life in the general populace, it was expected that the demandson electricity would keep growing in the foreseeable future. For electricity tradingpurposes, a standardkWh meter could reliably measure the total power consumed over a given period of time. But such devices were not without its problems. In order to deal with problems often encountered in ordinary meterings, such as the often inaccessible multi-tariff pricing during peaking hours, lack of reliable net metering for power co- generation, no real-time measurement, lack of outage notifications, and to simplifies power factor calculations,utility companies began to slowly transition themselves from using a standard kWh meter to much more advanced Smart Meter and its AdvancedMetering Infrastructures. With further ease of data interaccessibilty, customersand utilities would find monitoring their use or trade of electricity much easier than everbefore.

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Mr. Bob Saril, Director of Commerce and Customer Management at the State Electricity Company (PT PLN (Persero) stated that the increase of customer demand in PLN’s distribution grids necessitates a rapid technological advancement in the energy trading sector. In order to adapt properly in facing the current trend of energy generation mix, PLN has to operate their grid differently in a way that it could produce power and most of its customer's demands in a cleaner and a more flexible way. Adding that the era of producer- consumer (Prosumer) multifunction is at its beginning. Hence changing PLN’s business model to one more tied to carbon-free and greener values rather than volumetric values should be the main driving force of PLN’s journey on adapting Smart Meters. Saril also adds thatcustomer re-prioritization consists

more than installing Smart Meters. Here, Smart Meters became a stepping-stone in transforming the power-utility value proposition with a renewed focus on total cost of electricity it self. Possibilities may include environmental sustainability, renewable energy integration, prosumerrenewable participation, rather than merely a generation-delivery service. Hence, PLN puts Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI) as one of the keys to PLN’s transformation. Associated with several other organizational initiatives.

Mr. Zainal Arifin,as Executive Vice President

of Engineering and Technology at the State Electricity Company implores that PLN were hoping to introduce the mass adaptation of Smart Metersand AMI as a gateway to further

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the cause of creating a smarter electric grid in Indonesia. PLN were looking forward to implementing a demand response scheme for customer engagement to increase the efficiency of Indonesian grids. Further, Arifin adds that PLN had been implementing their own timeline of AMI initiative. It involves severaltrials conducted in 2018 at Bogor, 2019 at Cengkareng, Malang, Batam, and Bali among other locations. In 2020, PLN had done several Power System Interoperability analysiswith ICON+, resultingin more promising results. With trials and digitalization completed, the initiative enters a Pre-Commercial analysis by installing a total of 110 AMI in three major cities: Bandung, Jakarta, and Surabaya. With hopes of installing a further amount of 1.2 million (commercialized) AMI at the end of 2022 and a total of 35 million AMI by 2035. Saril further implores that besidesimproving the internal business process to ease theconversion to Smart Meter, PLN also coordinates and develop partnerships.

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with BPPT (National Research Department), Universities, and Manufacturers to enhance the local industrial capability and achieve the mass production of Smart Meter in the next two years as required on the TKDN (Local Economic Content)policy. There are, however, other regulatory issues faced by the AMI initiative. BecausePLN did not own mostof the suppliers and O&M was conducted by such suppliers, there was a false assumption that PLN did not regulateor supervise the overall AMI operations. Regardless, PLN has and continuesto develop several Smart Metering Operation Center to accommodate AMI usage growth. With most Operation Center ownedand operated by ICON+.

Market-wise, Mr. Rendroyoko as Director of Whole sale and Business at Indonesia Commnets Plus (ICON+), a PLN Subsidiary, explains that forthe next three to five years, South East Asia and East Asia might well be an economichotspot for Smart Meter development and supply chain growth. With mass implementation of AMI, ICON offers PLN an automated grid management that consists of Data Warehouses which prep the datas recordedin an AMI to be used as a predictor for system dispatch, energy reconciliation, load forecasting, demand response management, outage management, further into the accountings and billings sector. Supported by a thriving data center and telecommunication industry found in East Asia, installing such data hubs and automated grid management system for a smarter grid might well be one procurement away. However, other.

concerns regarding data securitywere also present as the main obstacle facedby ICON+ if the automated grid management were to be implemented. Hence, while outsourcing many O&M processes to external actors, ICON+ builds, implements, and maintains their own Meter Data Management System (MDMS) - based on PLN’s process businesses. Their MDMS provides the single source of truth meter data to be further analyzed properlyand to support other systems.A sophisticated architecture, accordingto Mr. Rendroyoko, had been applied to fit PLN’s need and to ensure a fast, reliable, and available system.

EDF,unsurprisingly, puts AMI as both the heart

and gateway of energy transition. As stated by Mr. Chandra Satria Muda, Director of Business Development Electricite de France (EDF) in Indonesia, Smart Meters/AMI brought changes to the electricity economic system as a whole. From consumer behavior, distributed generations, sourcing optimizations, innovative tariffs, and further paved the path to overallenergy management. EDF Indonesia offers to Indonesian utilities and consumer as a whole a general co- investorship as a partnership approach. EDF’s AMI Project is the first step of EDF Smart Grid Project,andit started with the replacement of 35 millionmeters with smart meters by 2021. Followed by 8 million Smart Meters (With its subsequent AMI) yearly. This project, Linky Project, is a massive rollout AMI project in France with a value of 5 Billion Euros. It modernizes network management processes and infrastructures and assists actorsof the electric power system in energy transition. This Linky project offers a hint of standardization in accordance with architecture, interoperability,

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scalability, and best practices offered by EDF and their consortium. Mr.Chandra adds, EDF’s extensive practices, with properarrangement, may be deployed to create and re-engineer designated part of PLN’s business processes and practices. According to their needs and requirements. These business plan offered by EDF may bring PLN’s journey well into smart grid development. Since in a context of energy transition, EDF hold the same regards with PLN as networks and grids must modernize to adapt to the profoundchanges in the modes of production andconsumption. This meanttaking into account of new uses and means of electricity production locally,and supporting electric mobility and changesof consumption patterns.

Representing India’s adaptive behavioron

Smart Metering implementations, Mr. Reji Kumar Pilai states that. India founds its drive to strive on implementing smart grids nationwide in its stated goal of pan-India universal electricity access. he high amount of IPPs and highly fluctuating electricity demand per-capita in each region drive the Indian government to implement Smart Grids which can offer affordability and other benefits to consumers. The first step towards realizing such conditions is the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The Smart Meter National Programme is being implemented to deploy smartmeters across the country.

The scheme is being implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited(EESL). Mr. Pilaiadds that despite its widespread benefits, deploying AMI presentsthree majors challenges that include high upfront investments costs, integration with other grid systems, and standardization.

A full scale deployment of AMI requires expenditures on all hardware and software components, it also includes networkinfrastructure and networkmanagement software, along with cost associated with the installation and maintenance of meters and information technology systems. India, with its multiple IPP serving several different states and regions demand a clearer definitions and procedures on Interoperability. Which set uniformrequirements for AMI technology, deployment and general operations and are the keys to successfully connecting and maintaining an AMI-based grid system in India. Mr.Pilai concludes that for India, a steadily increasing AMI and Smart Meter adaptation relieson the development of proper procedural standards, complete wi recommended practices applicable to the existing IndianPower Exchange.

In conclusion, the many benefits of Smart Meters goes beyond economic or monetary face value. In the long run, smart meters supported by the proper AMI may bring a new pattern of electricity consumption, demand responses, increased reliability, up to easing the transition to renewables.On the other hand, AMIs were not merely an O&M business. It also regards on how standardizedand secure its data management behavior. It also regards how digitized is everything that sustain power economies. And lastly, it also regards how aware the general publicabout the benefits of installing one.