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Lompoc officials advance plan to replace aging electric meters with AMI system; contract to return for council vote
Summary
City staff recommended replacing the city’s aging one‑way metering system with an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network after a consultant review and competitive RFP. Staff and the consultant recommended Eaton as the preferred vendor and said a final contract and fiscal analysis will return to council on May 20.
City officials moved forward with a plan to replace Lompoc’s aging electric meters with an advanced metering infrastructure system after a consultant presentation and council questions Tuesday.
The recommendation — presented by Rick of Schmidt Utility Advisors and introduced by city staff — asks the City Council to consider a multi‑year deployment and a vendor contract that staff plans to return to the council for a final vote on May 20.
The plan would replace the city’s older, one‑way remote reading meters with two‑way AMI meters that report hourly (or more frequent) consumption to pole‑mounted collectors and a cloud database. Rick, the consultant who led the RFP work, told the council the city’s existing system is aging and a portion of meters are more than 10 years…
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