core_eia861__yearly_advanced_metering_infrastructure
Annual time series of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and automated meter reading (AMR) by state, sector, and balancing authority.
- Most-recent data:
2024
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
EIA Form 861 -- Annual Electric Power Industry Report
- Primary key:
balancing_authority_code_eia, customer_class, report_date, state, utility_id_eia
Additional Details
The energy served (in MWH) for AMI systems is provided. Form EIA-861 respondents also report the number of standard meters (non AMR/AMI) in their system. Historical Changes: We started collecting the number of standard meters in 2013. The monthly survey collected these data from January 2011 to January 2017.
Columns
Number of meters that measure and record usage data at a minimum, in hourly intervals and provide usage data at least daily to energy companies and may also provide data to consumers. Data are used for billing and other purposes. Advanced meters include basic hourly interval meters and extend to real-time meters with built-in two-way communication capable of recording and transmitting instantaneous data.
Number of meters that collect data for billing purposes only and transmit this data one way, usually from the customer to the distribution utility.
EIA short code identifying a balancing authority. May include Canadian and Mexican BAs.
High level categorization of customer type (e.g., commercial, residential).
Number of customers able to access daily energy usage through a webportal or other electronic means.
Number of customers with direct load control: a A demand response activity by which the program sponsor remotely shuts down or cycles a customer’s electrical equipment (e.g. air conditioner, water heater) on short notice.
Amount of energy served through AMI meters. AMI meters can transmit data in both directions, between the delivery entity and the customer.
Entity type of principal owner.
Number of AMI meters with home area network (HAN) gateway enabled.
Number of non-AMR/AMI meters. Usually electromechanical or solid state meters measuring aggregated kWh where data are manually retrieved over monthly billing cycles for billing purposes only. Standard meters may also include functions to measure time-of-use and/or demand with data manually retrieved over monthly billing cycles.
Date reported.
Whether the reported information comes from the short form. In the case of form EIA 861, a shorter version of the form was created in 2012 to reduce respondent burden on smaller utilities and increase our processing efficiency.
Two letter US state abbreviation.
The EIA Utility Identification number.
The name of the utility.
Maturity of the source data published by EIA that is reflected in this record. EIA releases data incrementally over time, including monthly updates, annual year-to-date updates, provisional early releases of annual data, and final annual release data that is not expected to change further. Records sourced from multiple upstream EIA datasets may have no well defined data maturity. Records whose values have been inferred within PUDL will also have no data maturity.