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SaskPower plans to install 400 advanced electricity meters in the town of Hanley, Saskatchewan, beginning June 11, in advance of installing hundreds of thousands of meters across the province starting next year.
The test will be followed by two others in different cities, and provincewide installation of 500,000 smart meters to all electricity customers will begin in 2013 and continue through 2014, Ali Shahkar, the program manager and vice president of Utility Integration Solutions Inc., or UISOL, an Alstom company under contract with SaskPower, said June 6. The cost of the program is expected to be C$190 million.
Advanced metering infrastructure, or AMI, "is a key part of SaskPower's plans to renew and upgrade our provincial electrical infrastructure and will provide a foundation for other ongoing SaskPower...