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Salt River Project Will Double its Smart Meter Deployment

May 18, 2010

Arizona’s Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP), the country's third largest public power utility, is ordering an additional 500,000 Elster EnergyAxis® smart meters which will bring its total advanced metering deployment to one million. The additional meters will be delivered over the next three years. This latest smart meter deployment project is partially funded by a $56.9 million matching DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant. SRP says it has seen a 20% increase in voluntary time-of-use (TOU) rate participation programs with its smart meter installations. Elster is one of the world's biggest electricity, gas and water measurement and control providers.

Quick Take: It is interesting to see public power utilities such as Salt River, SMUD and Austin Energy taking a leadership role in the Smart Grid.

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Trust is the Issue

Public power, by virture of being owned by their customers, has an inherent trust factor that IOU's can't match. It seems all the "good" projects are public and the "ugly" ones are IOU's. We all need to pay more attention to this disctinction and to learn from it as best we can.

Paul Warfield - 05/24/2010 - 12:13

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