Consumer Portal

The Consumer Portal is a critical element to enable the vision of IntelliGrid - the power system of the future - by enabling consumers to participate in the competitive energy markets, and providing action and feedback from the consumers, which represent millions of connecting points to the network. It not only provides an interface for energy related services (e.g. meter reading, outage detection, demand response, bill disaggregation, and real-time pricing), but also numerous additional potential functions to industrial, commercial, and residential electric energy users.

This project, the first stage in the multi-year Portal Infrastructure Development Program, will help provide direction through active participation in standards and protocol development as well as creation of a common applications language for building open systems-based architectures.

What's next in the Consumer Portal project

  • Assessment of available telecommunications protocols and data formats (May 2005)
  • Utility workshop on distribution applications of the Consumer Portal (May 17, 2005)
  • Description and analysis of Consumer Portal main functionalities (June 2005)
  • Development of a reference design (end of 2005)
  • Preparation of pilots (end of 2005)

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Next Member Event

The Consumer Portal Applications Workshop was held on May 17, 2005 in Dallax, TX. To access the presentations, please send an email to consumerportal @epri.com.