PSE&G Receives Approval For Deployment Of Smart Meters

January 7, 2021

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Public Service Electric & Gas announced that it received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to invest approximately $700 million during the next four years to provide its 2.3 million electric customers with smart meters, under a territory-wide deployment.

PSE&G said that the BPU approved a settlement in the AMI and Energy Cloud proceeding

Under the settlement, PSE&G will conduct procurement for and the expansion of the Energy Cloud communications network to be completed by mid-2022. Additionally, PSE&G will conduct the procurement of the contract installation workforce to be in place to install AMI meters by mid-2022.

In 2021, PSE&G plans to install approximately 80,000 AMI meters in the ordinary course of business (e.g., replacements for failure or damage, and new customers). Where practical, and regardless of the age of any particular legacy meter at the time of its removal, PSE&G will replace all the meters at a premise to eliminate the need for additional premise visits in the future to complete the AMI installations.

In 2022, PSE&G plans to install approximately 300,000 AMI meters. During the first half of the year, PSE&G will continue to install AMI meters in the ordinary course of business. As the installation workforce is secured in the second half of 2022, the Company will begin the transition from the ordinary course of business AMI installations to a geographic strategic mass meter deployment

In 2023 and 2024, PSE&G will install approximately 900,000 meters each year. This installation will incorporate a geographic strategic deployment, designed to maximize installation efficiency and customer satisfaction. To minimize the inefficiencies of sporadic meter deployment, Phase II will proceed regardless of the age of any particular legacy meter at the time of its removal

Per the settlement, customers’ usage data from the AMI meters belongs to the customer, who may choose to share such data with any licensed third party supplier.

The settlement states, the development of a Data Access Plan shall be deferred pending the statewide proceeding in Docket No. EO20110716. If that statewide proceeding does not produce a Board-approved Data Access Plan within 180 days of a BPU Order approving PSE&G’s CEF-EC (Clean Energy Future – Energy Cloud) Petition, within 60 days after that period PSE&G will convene at least one meeting with the parties to discuss the data access issues raised by the Market Participants in this proceeding. The data access issues included in the testimony submitted by the Market Participants and PSE&G in this proceeding may be supplemented at that time. The parties agree to use best efforts to reach agreement on data access within 120 days of the initial stakeholder meeting. If there is no agreement on the data access issues within 120 days, this proceeding will be reopened for the limited purpose of adjudicating data access issues, and the parties may supplement the record on data access issues at that time.

Docket EO18101115

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