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REGULATORS—Advanced metering (AMI) and meter data management (MDM) will be on your agenda over the coming months. Join Public Service Commission of Arkansas, ERCOT, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the California Energy Commission and customer advocacy groups to decide what will work well in your state.

With the advances in technology, many things are possible. Regulators need to discern what should be done rather than what can be done. This forum is designed to provide the opportunity for all parties, including consumer advocacy groups and regulators, to work together to address how to reasonably share the costs and benefits between utilities and their customers.

Benefits of Participation

  • AMI MDM can provide information to help regulators evaluate the various options and decide what provides value to their constituents.

  • Regulators can consider how to pay for advanced metering since benefits accrue to both customers (and/or their retail provider) and distribution utility, but is most efficiently installed by the distribution utility.

  • Regulators will have an opportunity to validate their thoughts, and learn what the objections might be to a certain approaches.

This Working Group uniquely features a governance structure that puts AMI and MDM users, utilities, regulators, and other interested parties in a strong position to work with one another to advance a very important topic. The Working Group's full featured website located at www.amimdm.com not only provides information about the forum, but also provides a bevy of free articles, white papers, and studies. Regulators and consumer advocacy groups can join by simply emailing us at AMIMDM@utilipoint.com with their name and the name of their organization or call (214) 923-4876 for more information. The first workshop will be on April 24th to 25th at the Atlanta Hyatt Regency, co-located with the Metering Americas conference.

Utility participants include: Cinergy, CPS Energy, Direct Energy, FPL, JEA, SMUD, Community Energy Cooperative and many more