How is Central Electric adopting AMI?

CEC began replacing the electric meters at its members’ homes and businesses in January 2011 and completed installation in January 2013. All new meters added to the cooperative’s system are AMI meters. The coop also installed communication technology at its 25 substations to facilitate the transfer of use data from individual meters to Central Electric’s billing and data storage systems.

For a few months after the meter conversion, members’ meters continued to be read both manually and remotely. This enabled our engineering, operations, and technology professionals to test our communications systems and review the meters’ performance to ensure accuracy before moving to full deployment.