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Elster, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of highly accurate, high quality, integrated metering and utilization solutions, announces that Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (Toronto Hydro) has installed over 345,000 EnergyAxis System smart meters throughout its service area. Toronto Hydro selected the EnergyAxis System to meet the requirements of the Ontario Smart Metering Initiative.
Jack Robertson, vice president and general manager of Elster Metering in Canada said, “Toronto Hydro’s ability to install an advanced metering infrastructure so quickly has been impressive. With the residential meters in place, collector meters can be easily added to the network to retrieve hourly interval data. We are pleased that the robustness and reach of the EnergyAxis mesh network has met Toronto’s expectations.”
Toronto Hydro is now extracting and collecting hourly interval residential data from the system daily. They are installing and reading interval data from thousands of additional Elster smart meters each week as part of their smart meter expansion plan.
With advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), reading hourly interval data from all residential customers is just one of the things the system provides. Another smart grid enabled feature is the ability to retrieve voltage data from all endpoints. Toronto Hydro's success in reading their present volume of interval meters daily makes this deployment in Ontario, Canada the largest true two-way AMI system in the world bringing back hourly interval data daily from all points.
Toronto Hydro is committed to meeting the goals set by the Government of Ontario’s Smart Metering Initiative, which is designed to help meet electricity demand challenges in the province. The government has established targets for the installation of 800,000 smart electricity meters by December 31, 2007 and the installation of smart electricity meters for all of the over 4.5 million Ontario electricity consumers by December 31, 2010.
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