1. A Short Overview

2. A Cooperatively Owned Technology Company… With a National Reach.

3. In the Technology Business for 47 Years…

4. Our Original Three Are Still With Us Today

5. NISC Delivers… Billing Accounting Engineering Technical Services E-Commerce Printing & Distribution Utility Bill Pay

6. Our Customers Today More than 600 utility and telephone systems in 47 states, one U.S. territory and Canada

7. The NISC Membership Canada American Samoa

8. NISC Offices Lake Saint Louis, MO Cedar Rapids, IA Shawano, WI Mandan, ND

9. NISC Employees

10. NISC – Best Place to Work! NISC ranked in Computerworld’s Best Places Survey in nine of the last ten years

12. UBP Customers Today

13. Utility Bill Pay Funds Managed

20. Current Stats 170 Active Clients and Growing! Steady Growth Trend

21. Making the Grid Smarter

23. Smarter Grid Discussion AMI Connectivity Data management & perfecting Demand response Forecasting

24. The Key to a Smarter Grid is theDATA

25. So how much dataare we really talking about?

26. “While the smarter grid rollout will usher in an era of more efficient grid management, it also spells a 900% INCREASEin the quantity of the data that utilities will need to COMMUNICATE, MANAGE AND ANALYZE over the next decade” -Lux Research, Inc.

27. Tweets vs. AMI Meter Read 600bytes 250bytes

28. Data Storage 15mb 3.5mb 2.0mb 0.5mb

29. The Evolution of Meter Reading In the past… 1 READING/METER/MONTH

30. The Evolution of Meter Reading Today… 30 DAYS X 24 HOURS = 720 READINGS/MONTH/METER (based on hourly intervals)

31. MONTHLYmeter readings and calculations per month 18,000,000

32. HOURLYmeter readings and calculations per month 12,960,000,000

33. 15 MINUTE meter readings and calculations per month 51,840,000,000

34. 1 AMI device delivering 15 minute reads 1.9 MB produces per smart meter per month

35. Data Units of Measure Megabyte = 1,000,000 Bytes Gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 Bytes Terabytes = 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes

36. 15 minute meter readings and calculations per month for one year… 408 Terabytes

37. The requirements to store one year of 15 minute reads would be 582,583 CDs

38. Outsourcing Data Management NISC’s Cloud Approach A privacy concern stewards of our Members data A private Cooperative Cloud

39. Smarter Grid Data Management System Robust & redundant connectivity to the Internet Cloud environment Centralizing storage

40. We have the demonstrated capability of accumulating the data… Can we turn the data into useful information?

41. Data Educating Members and Customers Consumption patterns More detail beyond total every 30 days

42. Educating the Consumer Smart Grid technology makes it possible to give economic incentives to shift load and reduce peak usage.

43. Billing Options Arrears Time of Use (TOU) Prepaid

44. A smarter grid changes everything In the utility industry…

46. Thank You