50-413-543Specialty Metering for Meter Technicians-Module Eight
Course Information
Description
This course will focus on specialty metering.  The apprentice will explore how/why a rate type applies to a specific customer and examine how to meet customer requirements using pulses and modem. 
 
Total Credits
1
Course Competencies
  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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