Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Advanced meters are being installed in homes across Western Australia to unlock energy opportunities and benefits for households and small businesses.
Initiative progress
In Progress
Western Power has successfully installed more than 600,000 advanced meters across the network as of July 2023, which represents half of the total 1.2 million meters on the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
Advanced meters are digital electrical meters that transmit data to Western Power’s systems. This allows remote monitoring of energy flows and detection of faults or supply issues.
It also provides valuable insight to households and small businesses by offering improved visibility into their energy usage allowing them to better manage their energy consumption.
Installing advanced metering infrastructure is an important step in optimising energy systems and providing households and businesses more choice by enabling more new technologies, like community batteries, to join the network. The overall outcome is a more efficient, cleaner, and more secure network.
Key Stats
Timeline and Milestones
July 2023 – Halfway point reached with 600,000 advanced meters installed.
2027 – Entire network to be converted with 1,200,000 advanced meters installed.
Advanced meters for a smarter electricity grid
Installed as part of the WA Government’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure program, advanced meters allow customers greater visibility and increased flexibility to better manage electricity usage.
Advanced meters have a communication device installed enabling communication between the meter and Western Power’s systems. This allows advanced meters to be read automatically and remotely, as well as detecting faults or supply issues.
Watch the video below to find out how advanced meters work.
Unlocking new technologies and benefits for your home and business
The advanced meters offer electricity consumer benefits, empowering households and businesses to manage electricity consumption while supporting a lower-carbon grid.
Key benefits include:
Connecting cleaner technologies
enabling emerging technologies to be added to the network for cleaner ways to generate and use electricity. This includes community batteries, microgrids, embedded networks and electric vehicles as well as supporting the uptake of rooftop solar.
An extra layer of safety
faults on the service connection can be remotely detected. If any unusual patterns in electricity flows are detected, Western Power will send a crew out to investigate to ensure your home’s electrical connection is safe.
Greater visibility over electricity usage
half hourly data provides access to data from the previous day which helps pinpoint how power is being used. Tracking daily electricity consumption allows you to make immediate changes to lower energy costs if your usage is higher than expected.
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