Protocols for energy meters

India CPRI test lab for DLMS

http://www.cpri.in/testing/it/protocol_it.html

DLMS standards body

http://www.dlms.com/index2.php

Blog for DLMS India

http://dlmscosem.blogspot.com/

A Paper on DLMS by Kalkitech

http://knol.google.com/k/prasanth-gopalakrishnan/need-for-open-communications-standard/3bk0x32fl4sfh/11#

An Indian company developing products based on DLMS

http://www.kalkitech.com/

Prepaid meters in India

Banglore offers prepaid meters

http://www.bescom.org/en/news/SinglePhaseThreePhase.asp

Android Home Energy Meter

Interface energy Meter with GSM phone based on android.

http://labs.moto.com/

Power Cost Home Energy Use Monitor

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/powercost_home.php

Multiple Products

10 monitoring tools bring smart energy home

http://earth2tech.com/2009/04/14/10-energy-dashboards-for-your-home/

Multiple products available from Green Depot

http://www.greendepot.com/greendepot/dept.asp?dept_id=2030&s_id=0

Open Source Modification to Kill A Watt

How to make a energy monitoring unit at home and convey information to tweeter

http://www.picobay.com/projects/2009/01/real-time-web-based-power-charting.html

Kill A Watt

Save Money by using Kill A Watt from P3. Just connected appliance to this unit and find out how much efficient they are.

A real boon for urban homes

http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html

Reducing energy consumption by instant feedback

A paper from UK university is here

http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/electric-metering.php

It talks about importance of direct and immediate feedback to users of electrical energy.

A US based company offers open source billing, reporting and analysis

http://www.fatspaniel.com/products/insight-platform/

Another program offers how to get energy usage feedback for users of wattson energy meter

http://www.myenergyusage.org/

Google launchd power monitoring via internet

Way to save energy is to monitor energy consumption as we do it in case of prepaid mobile phones. Even post paid mobile phones offer users a choice to check current balance.

In case of electricity we do not get to know total dues till we get the bill. A check on daily consumption can reduce power wastage.

In a country like India which has a sever shortage of power, this will be a good idea.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/power-to-people.html

Best time for energy efficieny products in India

A US Govt Website says that it is best time to enter India for energy efficiency. A trade delagation will visit India in November 2009.

See the brocher here

http://www.buyusa.gov/india/en/eetm.pdf

Also a report on India's cleantech energy needs is here

http://www.buyusa.gov/india/en/400.pdf

Indian websites (Govt/Others) efforts on energy efficiency

Energy Efficiency Information for Industries

http://eeii.org.in/

Bureasu of Energy Efficiency

http://www.bee-india.nic.in/

India Green Building Congress

http://www.igbc.in:9080/site/igbc/index.jsp

CII - Green House Building Center

http://www.greenbusinesscentre.com/

Website of Indian Utility Companies

Reliance (Delhi and Mumbai)

http://www.rel.co.in/Rel/default.jsp

http://www.bsesdelhi.com/ (Delhi - 22.6 Lac customers)

North Delhi Power Limited

http://www.ndplonline.com (Delhi - 10Lac customers -1180 MW)

Greater Noida

http://www.noidapower.com

Uttar Pradesh

http://www.uppcl.org/

http://puvvnl.up.nic.in/ (eastern UP - 24 Lac customers)

http://www.mvvnl.org/

http://www.pvvnl.org/ (western UP - 25 Lac customer - 3000 crore)

http://www.dvvnl.org/

http://www.kesco.co.in/ (kanpur 4.2 Lac customers)

Smart Energy Meters

As per a recent report from Research Firm Parks Associates, 8.3 million homes now have smart energy meters (a little more than 6% of total residential buildings). Complete report is at http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/8.3m-smart-meters-and-counting-in-united-states/

Real growth is expected in next 5 years, It is expected to grow to 13.6 million next year and 33 millions by 2011.

These meters can measure electricity as well as control electricity and is expected to save cost for home ownere and utility companies.

Google and Microsoft have web based software that can integrate with these smart energy meters. Google lanuched their home manangment software on May 19th,2009

In India, Reliance Energy Plans for 5 million smart meters that will interface with google home management software.

website for buidling automation information

Magazine

http://www.greenintelligentbuildings.com/

http://www.greentechmedia.com/

Indian Product Companies

Market size for building automation products

A US Govts website has this report. Report is dated 2005 and is based on data till 2001. The website is current indicating that there has been no recent data.

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/advanced_rd.html

It says that in 2001 US has spent USD 3,100 million on automation products. Making report is a pretty complex job, We do not have such information for Indian Buildings

US Govts Deptt of Energy Recommends Automatic Light Management

US Govt's Deptt of Energy encourages use of automatic light controls for saving electricity

http://www.energysavers.gov/your_home/lighting_daylighting/index.cfm/mytopic=12180

Rebates/Free equiments for Energy Efficient Homes/Offices

CPS Energy is largest municpally owned electric company. In San Antanio, Texas it delivers electricity to over 7 Lakh homes.

It encourages users to use dimmers and electronic timers to control lighting when away from home. It offers free programmable controller from Honeywell to reduce cooling (and heating) cost by 10%. It also offer rebate of upto 20% for smart energy homes users.

http://www.cpsenergy.com/Residential/Residential_Rebates_2009/Peak_Saver/index.asp

For commercial users it recommends use on computer based energy management system. It also offers rebate is users has better energy efficiency.

Intelligent Power Electronics for Energy Efficiency

European Center for Power Electronics website (http:://ecpe.org) has been formed in 2003. Vision statement says that

The aim is to boost Europe´s innovative strength and its leading role in future key areas such as energy production, energy distribution, the use of energy and - covering all of these - energy conservation, thereby extending Europe´s competitiveness with respect to North America and Asia.

has a document which says that share of electrical energy controlled by power electronics is 40% in 2000 and will reach to 80% by 2015. Power electronics is the key technonlogy which controls the flow of electricity from source to load.

Advanced power electronics can save over 50% of lossed in converting from mains/battery to that used in equipments.

For example lighting consumes 21% of electrical energy and a better electronic control can save over 25% of energy used in lighting using a small uController.

Complete article is here -

http://www.ecpe.org/download/power_electronic/ECPE_SRA_EnergyEfficieny.pdf