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Introduction of Your products
Start of inviting proposals for the specification of smart meters
Notice regarding Smart Meter Bidding
Tokyo-Chubu Interconnection Project related
Result of the Request for Comments on the Specification of Smart Meters and Our "Basic Concept"
Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund (hereinafter, "the Fund") and Tokyo Electric Power Company (hereinafter, "TEPCO"), for the first time as a Japanese electric power company, made an extensive RFC (Request for Comments) aiming at a zero-based review of the specification of smart meters TEPCO plans to introduce, refining it when the need arises. The RFC was twofold, one on the specification of the metering part (from March 13 to April 13), and the other on the basic specification of the communication feature (from March 21 to April 20). As a result, a total of 88 companies, groups, and individuals came back with 482 comments about communication methods, data formats, system expansions, the significance of introducing smart meters, and so forth.
Advisors for the specification of smart meters in Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund thoroughly reviewed all the comments received from the RFC. With the help of the feedback, the Fund and TEPCO have come up with a new "basic concept" on the specification of TEPCO smart meters, and would like to share the information with you below.
Potential use cases will be studied for smart meters in the context of future electric power systems in Japan, such as the increased use of demand response and reuse of meter reading data, as well as remote meter reading and remote disconnect-reconnect features that will be conducive to operational efficiency improvement. With the functional expandability of smart meters more organized, an RFP (Request for Proposal) on the communication feature will be made to finalize a detailed specification.
Revision as of July 19th, 2012
•Basic Concept for Smart Meter Specification based on RFC has been revised and replaced due to a minor alteration in expression.
Your sincere understanding will be appreciated.
[Revised Point]
-P10 : software --> firmware
-P25 : communication software --> firmware
1.Comments received from the RFC and our responses
- For details of received comments on the communication feature and TEPCO's responses to them, please refer to Attachment 1.
*Please note that comments received in English are only presented in this English attachment file. For the whole received comments and TEPCO's responses, please refer to the Japanese page or click here for the Japanese Attachment 1.
2.Basic Concept for Smart Meter Specification
- Based on the comments received from the RFC, a new "basic concept" on the specification of smart meter has been prepared as shown in Attachment 2.
3.Future plans
- In accordance with the "basic concept," the Fund and TEPCO will make a detailed RFP on the communication feature as soon as it can be arranged.
- In the meantime, it will take a certain period of time for suppliers, including new entrants, to correspond to the new specification that derives from the outcome of the RFC. This situation requires us to cancel the bidding originally scheduled for October 2012 (for the smart meter supply starting in FY2013). The bidding will be rescheduled to be ready for the smart meter supply starting in FY2014.
<Reference>
<Contact for information related to RFC>
- Primarily please contact us by E-mail.
E-mail address : tepcosmartcom@tepco.co.jp
- Voice contact
Phone: 03-6373-7741 (This service is available from 09:00 to 17:00 on weekdays)
*Please understand that e-mail inquiries made on Saturdays, Sundays or national holidays will be taken care of on the next or subsequent business days.
<Media Contacts>
- Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund:
Ito - Deputy Secretary General, or Yui - Project General Manager
Phone: 03-5575-3810
- Tokyo Electric Power Company: Public Relations Department
Phone: 03-6373-1111(main)
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<Attachment 1>
Received comments on the communication feature and TEPCO's responses
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