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House committee reviews bill letting water systems offer smart-meter opt-outs and recoup costs
Summary
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee examined S.213, which would let public water systems install advanced metering infrastructure while requiring them to offer customers an opt-out (with the utility allowed to charge for an alternative). The bill also directs the Agency of Natural Resources to obtain nonbinding cybersecurity guidance on request.
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on March 25 reviewed S.213, a Senate bill that would change how public water systems and electric utilities handle advanced metering infrastructure devices, commonly known as smart meters.
Mike O'Grady of Legislative Council told the committee that the bill "relates to the use of advanced metering infrastructure devices," explaining the measure stemmed from a constituent concern raised with Senator Hardy about a water system installing a smart meter. O'Grady said the bill would require public water systems that use smart meters to give customers an option not to have the device installed or to have an already-installed device removed.
Under the bill as presented, a customer who refuses a proposed installation could receive an alternative (for example, a noncommunicating meter) but…
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