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)
Please see response to BCUC IR1 Q34.1.
Response:
Information Request (IR) No. 1
Submission Date:
October 5, 2012
Page 61
34.4 Are the costs of any of the additional resources required to support the “Main
Applications” included in the CPCN Application estimate? Please explain.
Yes. Starting in 2014, forecast resources required to support the main applications are covered
as part of the New Operating Costs identified on Line 46 of the Gross AMI worksheet submitted
as part of Exhibit B-3.
35.0 Reference: Project Description
Response:
Exhibit No. B-1, Tab 4.0, Section 4.1.5, pp. 50-51
Data Historian
35.1 As the MDMS is a software application that maintains storage of the high
volumes of data being sent from the meters in the AMI system, please explain
the storage capability of the MDMS system including the duration of archiving
capabilities.
The MDMS is designed to store data from 150,000 AMI metering endpoints. Three years of
data will be available for immediate retrieval and four additional years will be archived. For the
solution, FortisBC has estimated and accounted for 1.5TB per year of storage.
Response:
35.2 What additional resources: hardware, software, building space, equipment and
staff, will be required to implement the MDMS application?
Please refer to the response to BCUC IR1 Q34.1.