Continuon starts
first commercial AMM rollout
in the Netherlands
April the 4th 2008; Arnhem - The Netherlands.
Today Nuon’s grid operator Continuon has started with the distribution of the first tender in a series of 5 for the rollout of AMM in its 2.7 million households distribution area. The first aim of the tender is to meet the statutory requirements arising from liberalization of the energy market.
Continuon is a regional grid operator responsible for the management of gas and electricity networks in the provinces of Noord-Holland, Gelderland and large areas of Friesland, Zuid-Holland and Flevoland. Continuon provides connections to the electricity and gas networks and the transportation of electricity and gas for around 2.7 million electricity customers and 2.1 million gas customers.
Continuon, as a leading supplier of gas and electricity connection and transportation services with an optimal price/quality ratio uses the possibilities presented by the Electricity Act 1998 and the Gas Act to enlarge its operation on the free electricity market by, facilitating intelligent grid management through the implementation of an AMR system.
The first tender consists of a turnkey completion for 500.000 E-meters with CPL and almost the same amount of G-meters with a wired M-bus communication, together with an operational head-end AMR application. This AMR application should support all domestic users in Continuon’s distribution area.
The tender procedure is divided into 3 steps: selection of interested parties, evaluation of the proposed system-solutions and awarding the final system. In December 2008 it is planned that Continuon will sign the contract for the smart-meter roll-out, The 2 year period for the roll-out in the South and East part of the Dutch province Gelderland, will start in the first quarter of 2009.
Harry Crijns, secretariat ESNA