Dive Summary:
- Every customer of California's Glendale Water & Power (GWP) will be billed next month through the utility's 120,000 smart meters that have been installed over the last two years.
- In addition to the new billing system, GWP is making the data collected by the meters available to its customers via online portals.
- The billing switch will start in January, but several parts of the smart gird won't be complete until 2014.
From the article:
About 25% of customers are already being billed through the digital reads, but officials said that after some technology upgrades this month, the entire system will be online for billing beginning next month.
“The system does work as we expected,” said Craig Kuennen, the utility's business transformation and marketing administrator. ...
