Metering installation

My Account. Home In the Community Current Projects. Advanced Metering Installations Project Description Seattle City Light is continuously working on infrastructure improvements throughout our service territory, and this includes replacing older meters for our customers.

Schedule Start Date: March This means that: Meters record customer energy-use information throughout the day and deliver it to utility computer systems Customer energy-use information is sent several times a day to City Light using radio frequency waves.

This is like the wireless communications used by cell phones and WIFI. The meters transmit data for a maximum of 90 seconds per day. Once the data is within City Light's secure firewall, the information will be matched up with customer accounts for billing and other customer service activities. AMI Benefits Empower customers to make energy-saving choices: This data can enable customers to make better informed energy- and money-saving decisions.

Improve customer service: Faster outage detection and restoration: AMI will eventually automatically report power outages to City Light, allowing us to respond and restore power faster. Minol USA powered by Brunata understands upgrades cost money. Your Minol USA powered by Brunata rep can help walk you through the best upgrade path from a budgeting perspective starting with your landline, then your meters and finally your Tapwatch system.

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Media releases. Market Brief. Market Commentary. If your solar system is sized properly, you can potentially eliminate all of your monthly electric costs.

Solar panels generate the most electricity during the middle of the day when the sun is shining. The problem is that the middle of the day also happens to be when you use the least amount of electricity. So your panels are generating way more electricity than your home needs at that time.

When solar panels produce more electricity than a home uses, the excess generation is sent to the grid. This is where net metering comes into play.

When a net metered system sends solar energy to the grid, your electric meter spins backwards and your utility applies a credit for the full retail value of electricity to your account. At the end of the billing period, the utility nets how much electricity you sent to the grid versus how much you used to determine your final bill - hence the name net metering. It depends on the utility, but most full-retail net metering programs allow energy credits to carry over from month to month.

So, if you generate more electricity than you used in a month, the excess net metering credits can be used to offset electricity you take from the grid the next month. You can bank up these summer credits to cut down your electric bills in the dark winter months. The greatest benefit of net metering to solar homeowners are the utility bill savings. Net metering can result in tens of thousands of dollars in savings over the lifetime of your solar panel system.

This is because solar homeowners will be saving more on their electricity bills, and thus recouping their investment costs faster. For example, a solar power system in New Jersey would have a payback period of between 4 to 5 years, thanks in large part to net metering. A system in South Dakota , on the other hand, could take up to 12 years to pay off because the state has no form of net metering in place.

Things like the size of your photovoltaic system, the amount of electricity you use, the cost of your installation, and the solar incentives and rebates in your area will all play a role in how long it will take to pay back your solar panels. Residential solar panels provide a big benefit to utilities and their customers because they help reduce the amount of stress on the electric grid distribution system. Plus, when a solar system sends excess energy to the grid, that electricity is used by other non-solar utility customers so they can meet their own energy demands.

This takes even more pressure off of utility power plants. Net metering is technically mandated in 38 states and Washington D. Out of all 50 states, 29 require full-retail net metering, and 17 offer some kind of alternative net metering program or tariff.