7. Smart grid benefits for water utilities
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• Improve accuracy & immediacy of metering information therefore
revenue & customer service
• Reduce Non-Revenue Water (NWR – about 40% in Brazil)
- Detect unauthorized consumption
- Detect leaks
- Identify failed meters and registers
• Life extension
• Lower investment requirements
• Tracking infrastructure cost
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Pressure management
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Brazil Water Regions
21. Policy recommendations
Policymakers should have common vision of Smart Grid benefits:
• Society
• Financial savings and higher reliability via improved load factor and system efficiency
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• Faster and wider adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles
• Primary policy tool to achieve policy goals of reliable supply, energy savings, renewable
portfolio standards, and emission reductions
• Energy consumers
• Access to detailed energy information
• Voluntary time-based pricing options
• Widespread availability of automated appliances and devices
Policymakers should establish specific targets
• Installation – e.g., 80% of meters in European Union by 2020, 100% by 2022
• Meter functionality – two-way communications, interval data, daily reads, HAN
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interface, disconnect switch, voltage & outage alerts
• Promote but not mandate standards
• Note: targets need to reflect country-specific requirements
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