Austin Energy staff review advanced metering history, network scale and capabilities
Austin Energy staff told the commission that the utility completed full two-way AMI deployment by 2019 and now operates roughly 591,000 AMI meters; staff emphasized network redundancy, remote service-switch capability and high billing-read performance under a performance-based vendor contract.
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Bill Kelly, process manager in Austin Energy's Advanced Grid Technologies group, told the Electric Utility Commission that Austin Energy has steadily expanded its advanced metering program since early pilots in 2001 and achieved full AMI network coverage by 2019. "Austin Energy was a really, early adopter in advanced metering, going all the way back to 2001," Kelly said, describing the transition from one-way reads to a full two-way AMI system capable of interval data and remote service-switch requests.
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