![]() ![]() ![]() These are the kinds of efficiencies that most smart meter projects out there promise they’ll deliver, but under Illinois’ new law, they’ll now be measured for year-by-year progress against those 10-year goals.ĬomEd and Ameren will also be asked to cut estimated billing by 90 percent over the next decade and eliminate bad debt and unpaid bills by $30 million, a measure of the importance of backend IT support for today’s complicated smart meter systems. ![]() To justify it, however, the utilities will have to reduce outages by 20 percent, energy theft by 50 percent and inactive meters (those delivering power to unoccupied homes) by a whopping 90 percent under the new rules. Pat Quinn vetoed a similar bill in September, saying it was “a dream come true for Commonwealth Edison, but it's a nightmare for Illinois consumers." The latest version is tougher as a result, though it will still allow the state’s two big utilities to add about $3 per month to customers’ bills. ![]() Those are the rules under a bill that Illinois legislators passed in a veto-proof majority last month, after a long battle over the companies’ $3.2 billion in smart grid plans. For utilities ComEd and Ameren Illinois, that means cutting outages, inactive meters, estimated billing, energy theft and other money-wasters the smart grid was meant to prevent - or paying penalties out of their profits. Illinois utilities are about to have to prove their smart grid can do what it promises. ![]()
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