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Radio and conventional ripple control systems forum

The Commission hosted a half day forum on radio and conventional ripple control systems on Monday 8 June 2009. This was a follow on from the home area networks (HAN) forum that was held recently.

The guest speakers included EFR and Landis + Gyr:

EFR from Germany discussed its system that utilises radio ripple control systems
Landis + Gyr discussed its system that utilises conventional ripple control systems

Presentations

Home Area Networks Forum

The Commission hosted a forum on Home Area Networks (HAN) on 20 April 2009 at the Electricity Commission offices.

The guest speaker was Bob Heile, Chairman of ZigBee Alliance and the topics of discussion included the following:

Introduction to the Zigbee Alliance
Zigbee certified platforms and compliant platform
Overseas experience with HAN
Application and users of HAN
Products available now and proposed
Proposed standards and protocols related to HAN
Regulatory issues overseas associated with HAN

Presentations

Metering Participants Forum

The Commission held a metering participants forum on 26 August 2008. This forum discussed the upcoming fundamental review of Part D and other relevant metering issues. The Commission considered the forum to be an important part of the feedback process.

Advanced Metering Solutions conference

The Commission has organised a Load Management and Metering conference in Wellington each year since 2005. This year the conference was an Advanced Metering Solutions Conference, which was held on 25 November 2008 at The Intercontinental Hotel in Wellington. The emphasis was on the recent developments in Advanced Metering Infrastructure in New Zealand and overseas.

The main topics related to progress with advanced metering as seen by retailer, distributors, meter owners, and service providers. The conference dealt with the Commission’s progress on the reform of the metering rules (part D of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003) and the development of the Commission's policy on metering. There was also a presentation on recent work on smart metering commissioned by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and an update on developments in Australia.

The conference was audio recorded transcribed. This is available below as one full document or in its seperate parts.

Details of previous conferences are available on the load management page.