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Smart Meters
Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Victoria
Smart meters are being rolled out to all Victorian households and small businesses over the next four years to help people better manage their energy use and cut carbon emissions.
The new smart meters - also known as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) - will provide two-way communication between your electricity meter and your power company, making more immediate information about your electricity use available to you both.
Victoria is the first state in Australia to give the go-ahead for the wide spread roll-out of smart meters. Covering 2.2 million homes and 300,000 businesses, this is a big task, representing one of the biggest improvements to energy infrastructure in the state’s history.
It’s a key step towards future smart electricity grids, which we need so that more renewable energy can be fed into the grid.
The meters will allow customers to access accurate electricity reads every 30 minutes, which helps to monitor and reduce electricity usage - and save money on power bills.
It will be easier to connect and disconnect power when you move house, and power companies will be able to identify outages and restore power more quickly. It will also mean the end of estimated bills or staying in for meter readings.
Electricity distribution companies - who own the poles and wires which deliver electricity to your homes and businesses - started installing meters in September 2009 and will finish by the end of 2013.
Role of Government
Smart Meters Questions and Answers
About smart meters
Smart meter rollout project
Smart meter installaltion
Smart meter and my energy use
Smart meter and my electricity bill
Safety, Security and privacy
For an overview of the smart meters rollout see Smart Meters Fact Sheet (PDF 113KB)
The above document is in PDF format. If you do not have the Acrobat PDF viewer you can download a free copy from Adobe Acrobat (external link). A text version of the document is also available and can be found on the webpages listed above.
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