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Consultant outlines "metering as a service" option for city water meter replacement; 13,000 meters cited
Summary
Sustainability Partners presented an infrastructure‑as‑a‑service model to replace Alamogordo’s aging water meters with zero upfront cost and a monthly usage fee tied to performance; company estimates a roughly 12‑month deployment is feasible for about 13,000 meters.
Sustainability Partners representatives on Aug. 28 described an "infrastructure as a service" model that would fund, install and maintain new water meters for the city with no upfront cost to the municipality.
Ryan Mass, state lead for Sustainability Partners in New Mexico, said the firm converts capital costs into a monthly usage fee aligned to the service the asset provides. “It’s really 0 upfront cost,” Mass said. Under the firm’s proposal, the company would finance design, procurement, installation, ongoing maintenance and eventual end‑of‑life replacement for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system and integrate leak‑detection features.
Mass described metering as the “brain and your cash register for your entire…
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