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Puget Sound Energy tells Edmonds council city is sole holdout on AMI meter project, warns of higher costs
Summary
A Puget Sound Energy representative told the council Edmonds is the only jurisdiction in the utility’s service area that has rejected the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), requiring manual reads in Edmonds and prompting the utility to seek cost recovery.
Robert Noel, a representative of Puget Sound Energy, told the Edmonds City Council during the audience-comment period on Feb. 4 that Edmonds remains the only jurisdiction in the utility’s service territory that has rejected the company’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment.
Noel said AMI is the industry standard and that the utility deployed the system across its territory between 2018 and 2023, with Edmonds as the exception. He said the company must contract with outside firms to manually read meters only in Edmonds, and that customers outside Edmonds are currently paying increased costs associated with manual reads. Noel said Puget Sound Energy is working to recover additional costs associated with operating a functionally obsolete system in Edmonds and is committed to working with the city.
No formal council action on the matter was recorded during the meeting. Noel left contact information for council members and said the utility appreciated the mayor’s engagement on the topic.
