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CenterPoint Energy’s Smart Grid Solutions Improve Operating Efficiency and Customer Participation

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric is deploying smart metering technology and distribution automation equipment to make its operations run more efficiently, lower costs and environmental emissions, and provide the opportunity for consumers to better manage both their electricity use and costs.

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Transforming Electricity Delivery in Florida

From their inception in 1940 until recently, Talquin Electric Cooperative’s 56,000 Florida customers read their own meters and reported their monthly usage by recording the meter reading on the portion of the bill returned with payment or by phoning the meter reading into an office.

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California Municipal Invests in Smart Grid to Enhance Customer Services and Improve Operational Efficiencies

City-owned Glendale Water and Power has completed its smart meter installation and is implementing a suite of new offerings to improve operational efficiencies and help customers save energy and manage their electric bills.

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Tri-State Smart Grid Investment Grant

Tri-State Electric Membership Cooperative is a distribution rural electric cooperative that primarily serves more than 12,000 rural customers, many of whom have low-incomes living at or near poverty level across a multi-state region.

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A “Model-Centric” Approach to Smarter Electric Distribution Systems

Orange and Rockland Utilities (ORU), is an investor-owned utility and a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) Incorporated, and is located in suburban New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, west of New York City. ORU is a key participant in Con Edison’s $272 million project to modernize electric distribution systems.