Consumer Portal

The Consumer Portal is a critical element to enable the vision of IntelliGrid - the power system of the future - by enabling consumers to participate in the competitive energy markets, and providing action and feedback from the consumers, which represent millions of connecting points to the network. It not only provides an interface for energy related services (e.g. meter reading, outage detection, demand response, bill disaggregation, and real-time pricing), but also numerous additional potential functions to industrial, commercial, and residential electric energy users.

This project, the first stage in the multi-year Portal Infrastructure Development Program, will help provide direction through active participation in standards and protocol development as well as creation of a common applications language for building open systems-based architectures.

Materials

Integration of Metering Objects for Customer Communications

2005

Consumer Portal Fact Sheet, May 2005

Consumer Portal Telecommunications Assessment and Specification, December 2005. The purpose of this report is to summarize and evaluate the communications technologies most likely to be specified in the Consumer Portal Reference Design. Section 1 and 2 describes the main concepts of the project and how it relates to the IntelliGrid Architecture recommendations. Section 3 summarizes the approach, the objectives and the rankings of the technologies according to the criteria defined earlier. Each technology is then detailed and ranked according to the defined criteria in a specific paragraph.

Consumer Portal FAQ and Survey, March 2005. Description of what a Consumer Portal is, what are the applications, the drivers and the barriers. The document contains a survey section for you to let us know what you think. You can also take the survey online.

Consumer Portal business case, March 2004. Detailed business case for the costs and benefits of a Consumer Portal in California

Consumer Portal project plan, November 2004. Project plan for 2005-2006

Energy Service Portal Development

A - Draft Assessment and Recommendations, December 2003. Specifies the features that should be incorporated and presents recommendations and next steps. (pdf)

B - Appendices, December 2003. Provides extensive reference information about communications standards, related developments, and market interest data. (pdf)

• Assessment of available telecommunications protocols and data formats (May 2005)
• Utility workshop on distribution applications of the Consumer Portal (May 17, 2005)
• Description and analysis of Consumer Portal main functionalities (June 2005)
• Development of a reference design (end of 2005)
• Preparation of pilots (end of 2005)
  

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