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A Short Overview
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A Short Overview
A Cooperatively Owned Technology Company…
With a National Reach.
In the Technology Business for 47 Years…
Our Original Three Are Still With Us Today
NISC Delivers…
• Billing• Accounting• Engineering• Technical Services• E-Commerce• Printing &
Distribution• Utility Bill Pay
Our Customers Today
More than 600 utility and telephone
systems in 47 states, one U.S.
territory and Canada
American Samoa
Canada
The NISC Membership
Mandan, NDLake Saint Louis, MO
NISC Offices
Shawano, WI Cedar Rapids, IA
NISC Employees
942MO372
ND430
WI32 IA
70
Virtual38
NISC – Best Place to Work!
NISC ranked in Computerworld’s
Best Places Survey in nine of the last
ten years
UBP Customers Today
Utility Bill Pay Funds Managed
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 $-
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$2,500,000,000
$3,000,000,000
$3,500,000,000
$4,000,000,000
Current Stats
Transactions
170,000 (Monthly)
Customer Spend
$335 Million (Monthly)
Customer Spend
$4.0 Billion (Annually)
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
180,000
Chart Title
Steady Growth Trend
170 Active Clients and Growing!
Making the Grid Smarter
Smarter Grid Discussion
• AMI• Connectivity• Data management & perfecting• Demand response• Forecasting
The Key to a Smarter Grid is the
DATA
SO HOW MUCH DATA ARE WE REALLY
TALKING ABOUT?
“While the smarter grid rollout will usher in an era of more efficient grid management, it also spells a 900% INCREASE in the quantity
of the data that utilities will need to COMMUNICATE, MANAGE AND ANALYZE
over the next decade”
-Lux Research, Inc.
Tweets vs. AMI Meter Read
Tweet AMI Meter Read0
100
200
300
400
500
600
250 BYTES
600 BYTES
Data Storage
1 YouTube video 1 digital song 1 digital print 30 days of smart meter data
0
3
6
9
12
15
3.5 MB
2.0 MB0.5 MB
15 MB
In the past… 1 READING/METER/MONTH
The Evolution of Meter Reading
Today… 30 DAYS X 24 HOURS = 720 READINGS/MONTH/METER (based on hourly intervals)
The Evolution of Meter Reading
MONTHLY meter readings and calculations per month
18,000,000
HOURLY meter readings and calculations per month
12,960,000,000
15 MINUTE meter readings and calculations per month
51,840,000,000
per smart meter
1 AMI device delivering
15 minute reads
1.9 MBproduces
per month
Data Units of Measure
• Megabyte = 1,000,000 Bytes• Gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 Bytes• Terabytes = 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes
15 minute meter readings and calculations per month for one
year…
408 Terabytes
The requirements to store one year of 15 minute reads would be
582,583 CDs
Outsourcing Data Management
• NISC’s Cloud Approach– A privacy concern
• stewards of our Members data
– A private Cooperative Cloud
Smarter Grid Data Management System
• Robust & redundant connectivity to the Internet
• Cloud environment• Centralizing storage
Can we turn the data into useful information?
We have the demonstrated capability of accumulating the data…
Data
• Educating Members and Customers – Consumption patterns – More detail beyond
total every 30 days
Smart Grid technology makes it possible to give economic incentives to shift load and reduce peak usage.
Educating the Consumer
Billing Options
• Arrears
• Time of Use (TOU)
• Prepaid
A smarter grid changes everything
In the utility industry…
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Thank You
