OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - OPPD is set to install the first 10,000 of 400,000 new smart meters, being developed at their advanced meter infrastructure farm, this fall.

Shorter restoration times, lower bills, and less customer reporting, OPPD says, are all potential benefits to their new smart meter technology.

“Right now, there’s a lot of communication that has to happen between OPPD and the customer to know when there’s an outage. Now, once AMI is in, we’ll have visibility to the edge of our systems to say, that customer’s still out and still having issues, let’s roll a truck. We might not even have to call the customer or talk to that customer to get that figured out,” said Manager of AMI Transformation, Mike Iwanski.

Once installed, the smart meters will be able to send back date about pow

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