Case Study
Review Of Retailer Readiness For Smart Meter Rollout
engagement profile © 2015 Marchment Hill Consulting All Rights Reserved Page 1 Review of retailer readiness for smart meter rollout the challenge From September 2009, smart meters are being installed in Victoria as part of the government’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program that will result in 2.6 million meters being replaced by December 2013. At the AMI program peak, up to 4000 meter exchanges will be completed per day. Initially the new meters will operate as accumulation meters, but from April 2010 they will be progressively converted to operate as interval meters. The deployment of smart metering creates significant challenges for electricity retail operations in Victoria. The introduction of interval meter data will result in an enormous increase