NREL and San Diego Gas & Electric Company Evaluate Advanced Metering Infrastructure-Based Controls for Grid Operation

San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E) is working with NREL to understand how advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)-based controls can be used to benefit the utility's more than 3,000,000 customers. With millions of new smart meters being deployed around the country, pervasive and continuous data from the grid edge could benefit real-time operations.

To understand the potential insights from AMI data and AMI-based controls, NREL will perform software and controller-based evaluations of the grid edge controller, devices, and sensors at the Energy Systems Integration Facility. The AMI-based controls will be rigorously tested on NREL-developed models that are representative of SDG&E feeders. The collaboration will ultimately provide SDG&E with an accurate simulation of AMI controls as well as capabilities to leverage secondary AMI data to validate models.

Read more about collaborations with San Diego Gas & Electric Company.