FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC) Application for a Certificate of Public ...

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FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC or the Company)
Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project
Response to British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC or the Commission)
Information Request (IR) No. 1
65.0 Reference: Project Costs and Benefits
Response:
Exhibit B-1, Tab 5.0, Section 5.1.2, p. 75
New Staffing - Revenue Protection Analysis Team
Submission Date:
October 5, 2012
Page 151
For staffing, FortisBC has anticipated adding an additional 9.5 FTEs to support the AMI
system and new processes. The breakdown of these resources is as follows:
• Revenue Protection Analysis Team – two resources required to analyze data
coming from the AMI system, investigate specific alerts and alarms and strategically
deploy energy balancing meters in high risk areas.
65.1 Please detail the number of existing FortisBC revenue protection resources,
including staff, contractors and consultants, that investigate energy theft.
FortisBC existing revenue protection resources consist of:
Response:
• One staff manager utilized half-time;
• One full-time contracted theft investigator;
• One contracted power line technician on an as-needed basis to perform service
disconnections and install check meters on primary voltage facilities; and
• One contracted private investigator on an as-needed basis to accompany the
theft investigator in high risk situations and scheduled out of town investigations.
65.2 Please explain the role to be performed by these two proposed resources in
deploying energy balancing meters in high risk areas, and how that integrates
with the distribution metering to be installed as part of the AMI project.
The two proposed resources consist of one data analyst and one power line technician.
The installation of feeder meters in 2015 will require ongoing analysis of feeder data to identify
which feeders and feeder sections require investigation. The data analyst will research system
alerts, consumption anomalies and custom reports provided by the advanced metering system
in conjunction with feeder data. This resource will deliver to the theft investigator a selection of
potential theft sites for follow-up as well as feeder sections that present risk. The power line
technician will provide ongoing field support to the theft investigator in the deployment of feeder,
transformer and temporary meters in the areas suggested by the data analyst.