Utility reports AMI billing success and outlines future generation portfolio

Aug 12, 2026

Staff said AMI meters successfully produced the utility's first billing-period data with Eaton and that the state reimbursed nearly $20,000 for grid-reliability engineering. The board also reviewed long-term resource commitments including Miller County (16 MW peaking), Power County (14 MW projected), Fremont Solar (5.5+ MW with battery) and internal generation.

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Staff reported progress on the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) rollout: 20-plus meters were deployed, Eaton and the meter vendor completed the first billing-period data pull, and staff documented procedures so future billing runs can be performed in-house. "Crystal went through, quite a few hours of trying to make this right," staff said, crediting internal effort to validate the first dataset.

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