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Analyze utility tariffs and how they drive revenue metering features and design.
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
review time of use and demand tariffs
review reactive metering and power factor tariffs
review net energy tariffs and hybrid distributed generation tariffs
identify other tariffs that utilities use
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Analyze demand and time-of-use metering
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
examine how meters determine demand
examine meter programs for time-of-use functionality
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Measure reactive component in the power triangle
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
define reactive energy
determine measuring techniques for reactive energy
identify how phase shifting transformers can measure reactive energy
identify how reactive-enabled digital meters measure reactive energy
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Outline capabilities for pulse outputs on revenue meters
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
define reactive energy
identify pulse outputs
determine measuring techniques for reactive energy
identify how phase shifting transformers can measure reactive energy
identify how reactive-enabled digital meters measure reactive energy
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Analyze various communication protocols used to retrieve meter data
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
list various protocols
identify various usage of meter data
identify capabilities of communication protocols
examine processes to retrieve meter data
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Examine meters for how they handle reverse power flow for net metering
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
define reverse power flow
outline processes to measure for reverse power flow
describe methods of reverse power flow protection
identify safety techniques to protect from reverse power flow
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Dissect the use of four quadrant metering for wholesale interconnect metering and distributed generation systems.
Assessment Strategies
Oral, Written and/or Skill Assessment
Criteria
define "four quadrant"
identify interconnect metering
identify distributed generation systems
define interconnection tariffs that require measurement of kW and kVAr bi-directionally.
detail customer service protocols in relation to four quadrant metering