The total value of purchase orders anticipated to be issued under this contract are approximately $25 million and the system is expected to be deployed over a three-year period beginning in early 2009.
Idaho Power (IPC) is involved in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in a 24,000 square mile area in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon serving approximately 500,000 metered endpoints.
IPC initially deployed the TWACS power-line solution several years ago with a 25,000 unit deployment intended to substantiate the business case for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and to test customer response to time-of-use billing and demand response, load control programs.
The successful performance of this technology over the past few years was reportedly a significant factor in IPC’s decision to expand to a system-wide TWACS deployment.
IPC plans to purchase the most advanced TWACS meter modules to collect interval data for current billing needs and to support planned time-of-use billing and demand response programs that are designed to allow the utility and its customers to better manage energy consumption and related energy costs.
