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Pennsylvania Working Group Proposes Solution Framework for Portal to Access Smart Meter Information

March 1, 2015

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Copyright 2010-15 EnergyChoiceMatters.com
Reporting by Karen Abbott • kabbott@energychoicematters.com

The Pennsylvania Electronic Data Exchange Working Group's Web Portal Working Group has filed a proposed solution framework to provide electric generation suppliers with access, when authorized, to customers' smart meter data.

Regarding entities authorized to access the port, the working group recommends that conservation service provider and curtailment service providers either be provided access as agents of an existing electric generation supplier, or be licensed as EGSs themselves as a prerequisite to receiving access.

Unlicensed subcontractors or agents of licensed EGSs, such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and billing providers, are eligible to receive access to the web portal on behalf of licensees that they represent, but their use must be directly associated with those licensees under the assumption that users are only accessing the portal in support of service to a specific licensed entity. For example, a provider obtaining usage for an account on behalf of fictitious supplier "ABC Energy" must be logged in such that the "ABC Energy" licensee is associated with and held accountable for associated use of the portal by that provider on ABC Energy's behalf.

The capability for other third parties (entities not licensed by the PaPUC as EGSs) to access this information was outside the scope of the working group effort. Such entities are not eligible for access to the web portal and must obtain customer data via other means.

Alternative means of obtaining customer data include contacting the customer directly or -- at the discretion of the EDC -- submitting requests to the EDC accompanied by proper Letters Of Authorization

The proposal also addresses information to be available to EGSs.

For each account number requested at the account level where the EDC has data available, the EDC must render the following information online for each account:

a. EDC account number

b. Start and end dates for each billing period listed.

c. A minimum of the 12 most recent billed periods of account-level monthly summary usage, aka consumption or kWh. (NOTE: 12 months may not be available, in which case the portal will return data for the available number of months.)

d. A minimum of the 12 most recent billed periods of account-level monthly demand, aka kW (both measured/registered and calculated/billed; Also, see note above regarding 12 months not necessarily being available - also applies here)

e. Quantity Qualifiers for both summary usage and registered demand (designates actual vs. estimate and load vs. generation)

f. All account-level or rate-level (varies by EDC) data elements provided in the Scheduling Determinant (FG) loop of the EDC's EDI historical usage transactions. This includes but may not be limited to Peak Load Contribution (current and future if known), Network Service Peak Load (current and future if known), bill group/cycle, rate class, rate subclass, and load profile.

Additional details of the information available can be found in the working group's proposal (click here)

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