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Committee declines to advance AMI/advanced‑metering timing bill; lawmakers asked utilities for planning details instead
Summary
An amendment that would have required utilities to report compliance plans related to FERC Order 2222 and advanced metering received mixed reactions. The committee voted to ITL House Bill 6‑92 after utilities said the bill overlapped active regional processes and could impose costly mandates.
The Science, Technology and Energy Committee took up House Bill 6‑92, which would have required electric distribution utilities under PUC jurisdiction to report by Nov. 1 on their compliance with FERC Order 2222 and to provide status information about interval/advanced meter (AMI) capability and the state of back‑end systems needed for wide‑scale distributed energy participation.
Representative Amanda McGee, sponsor of a pared‑back amendment, told the committee the change was intended to get a clear timeline for when utilities would deploy AMI functionality and back‑office upgrades that support…
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