Energy efficiency

Network management
Landis+Gyr’s advanced metering solution enhances how a utility can monitor its distribution networks and help related decision making. Power quality information can be used to increase energy efficiency by optimising electricity network capacity. Access to voltage information also enables better awareness of network status. Together, these functionalities assist computer optimised load shifting that manages distributed generation capacity, alleviates overload conditions, reduces outage occurrence and duration, and creates more efficient electricity distribution systems.

Demand response and personal energy management
Landis+Gyr personal energy management solutions enable utilities to provide accurate and informative consumption and billing data online and via in-home displays. Greater energy consumption awareness and variable tariff pricing creates incentives for consumers to reduce peak load demand, and provides utilities with the confidence to reduce excess capacity margins via demand response programs. The Landis+Gyr advanced metering solution can take this further with the addition of load control that allows utilities to actively shed load when necessary. Trials have indicated that Landis+Gyr demand response technology can reduce peak loads by up to 30%.

Load control
Landis+Gyr smart meters can also enable utilities to execute load control programs that quickly and reliably allow command and control of load shedding across a range of consumer appliances (e.g., air conditioning, heating, pool pumps, and domestic hot water).