ENMAX Power continually strives to improve utility metering services to enable the electricity market to work as efficiently as possible. To this end, Smart Metering, or Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), has been identified as a primary focus for ENMAX Power over the next few years. Implementing Smart Metering would provide the market with an option that not only gives consumers the opportunity to use energy efficiently and take better advantage of deregulation but also supplies the backbone for future environmentally friendly technologies such as micro generation.

Smart Metering offers numerous benefits in service delivery, grid efficiency, resource protection, demand management, operational efficiency and environmental outcomes. AMI implementation will enable electricity retailers to create unique pricing plans which will in turn foster a more dynamic market.

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1. What is Smart Metering?
Smart Metering will provide the basis for retailers to offer options to customers that can give them much more control over how and when they use electricity.

2. How does it work?
Combined with a retail energy rate that is time-based, also known as a time of use rate, Smart Metering allows the retailer to offer customers options that can give them much more control over their electricity bill. Smart Metering enables the residential customer for the first time to take real advantage of the hourly pricing structure available in the Alberta market.

3. Why is ENMAX looking at Smart Metering?
ENMAX Power wants to extend the same AMI opportunities to the small commercial and residential sectors that large business has enjoyed for some time. By providing this type of meter, ENMAX Power is enabling retailers to offer those customers the same benefits from deregulation and the opportunity to contribute to environmental sustainability. Electricity rates are tending to increase across Canada, as demand for energy increases. That’s why we’re striving to come up with innovative programs, products and tools to empower our customers - the retailers - with opportunities to manage this.