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Goals and Benefits of AMI implementation in Iran

-       Economical benefits

· Reducing non-technical losses

· Demand management (tariff management)

· Improving consumption patterns through the information shared with the customer

· Improving the payment system

· Reducing total costs of meter’s reading, operation and maintenance, and customer’s disconnection and reconnection

· Preparation for electricity retail markets

-       Social benefits

· No need for periodic trips to each physical location to read the meters

· Establishment of appropriate services for developing the electronic government

· Increasing electricity sale options with different prices

· Power delivery with higher quality and reliability

· Reducing cost of electricity due to reduced operating costs

· Increasing billing accuracy and speed by eliminating the human error factor

· Providing better customer service

· Creating customer’s participation in consumption management and costs reduction

-       Environmental benefits

· Reducing polluted gas and CO2 emissions

· Reducing consumption through network energy management and reducing network losses

· Demand management through sharing the information with customers

Business Needs of FAHAM project

· Correcting customer’s consumption pattern

· Preparing for complete elimination

· Applying energy management by the network operator in normal and critical conditions

· Improving meter readings and billing processes

· Reducing non-technical losses as well as monitoring technical losses in distribution network

· Improving the quality of service, reducing duration of power cuts and supervision on electric power quality

· Developing distributed generation and clean energy usage

· Possibility of electricity pre-sale and establishing electricity retail markets

· Optimizing operation and maintenance costs

· Providing appropriate management of water and gas meters