What is the history of JEA’s advanced metering program?
The program was brought onboard in 2000. The scope of it was visionary in that the CEO and others recognised that advanced metering would be the way of the future. Looking at opportunities for energy conservation, enhanced customer service and opportunities to better regulate the energy we are using now. It was felt that building new infrastructure would be a challenge, but this was an opportunity to bring in new technology and leverage it across the board to do everything from reading the meters to developing programs for demand-side management, energy load management and transformer load management. The largest return on the investment would be energy management, handling peak loads during winter and summer, being able to provide more information to the customer empowering the customer to be in control of their energy usage. We service 400 000 electric and water customers and about 20 000 water only customers. The business case was formed around 1999/2000, and the initial deployment
