Oct 15, 2021 | Aclara News, Gas utilities
Deploying advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is complex, whether a utility is large or small. In the case of the nation’s largest natural gas utility, the problem was especially thorny. The utility, with 22 million customers distributed over 24,000 square miles,...
Dec 2, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Gas utilities, Water utilities
The worldwide pandemic is changing the way people are celebrating the holidays in 2020, but no matter where they celebrate or how many people are sitting around their tables, they still use energy and water. We normally look at topics related directly to metering,...
Aug 25, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Gas utilities, Water utilities
When COVID-19 novel coronavirus put a hard stop to most in-person tradeshows and conferences this year, organizers quickly retooled many events as virtual. Whether this change is long-standing or just a blip in event-planning history, only time will tell. While...
Mar 23, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Gas utilities, Water utilities
The world is changing quickly, and energy and water utility professionals must stay well informed. Traditional trade publications, vendor websites, and research reports are the tried-and-true arrows in the utility professionals’ information quiver. But as strictly...
Sep 17, 2019 | AMI deployments, Electric utilities, Gas utilities
If you can say one thing about the United Kingdom’s smart metering program, it’s this: There’s no shortage of commitment. In fact, that seems to be a key difference between regulators in the U.K. and many of their counterparts in the U.S. Last November, Utility Dive...
Mar 12, 2019 | AMI deployments, Gas utilities, Pressure monitoring
Most gas meters are residential, but gas utilities will attest to the fact that commercial customers account for the lion’s share of the profits collected by the utility. When it comes to AMI, these customers require current, accurate, and granular data that can be...
