Niagara Mohawk (Syracuse, New York, U.S.), a National Grid company, has engaged Plexus Research Inc. (Boxborough, Massachusetts, U.S.) for consulting engineering services to support an automatic metering reading (AMR) procurement for more than 2 million metering points.

This project follows Plexus Research's support of the on-time, on-budget AMR deployment by the former New England Electric System of 1.4 million electric AMR points. When the Niagara Mohawk installation is complete, National Grid companies will have more than 3.4 million points of AMR installed in the northeast United States.

Niagara Mohawk's installation will include AMR at more than 1.5 million electric meters and more than 500,000 gas meters. The electric AMR portion of the project also includes replacing more than 1.5 million electromechanical meters in the field with 1.5 million new residential electronic meters. This purchase of new electronic metering for residential customers, assisted by Plexus Research, is the largest such purchase by any U.S. utility.

Since 1983, dozens of utilities have called upon Plexus to explore new AMR and metering options and to help execute these projects.
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