NIPSCO begins new electric meter project
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Merrillville-based Northern Indiana Public Service Co. this month plans to begin installing new electric meters for 3,000 customers in Highland, part of a broader rollout to the utility’s northern Indiana service territory over the next three years.
The new meters will provide more detailed billing for customers, enable greater energy-efficiency savings, and improve responses to outages and emergencies, NIPSCO said Monday. The technology also allows the utility to read meters remotely.
“Advanced Metering Infrastructure is a proven technology, designed to improve safety, promote reliability, and enable system modernization,” Ron Talbot, senior vice president of electric operations, said in the utility’s news release. “It is central to NIPSCO’s efforts to enable modern energy capabilities and improve the customer experience.”
The 3,000 customers in Highland set to receive a new meter will be notified by letter about 30 days prior to the scheduled meter installation, said the utility, a subsidiary of NiSource Inc. The installation will be done at no charge and will typically take less than 15 minutes.
After Highland, the new meters will be installed in phases to NIPSCO’s remaining 490,000 electric residential and business customers in northern Indiana over three years.
The $155 million technology upgrade was part of a broader system improvements and customer rate plan approved in 2021 by Indiana regulators.
For more information, visit NIPSCO.com/AMI.