Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has ordered 88,000 Aclara RF electric devices to be installed in the Central Valley region of northern California. These units will include a ZigBee connector as well as an interface to a connect and disconnect function integrated in the meter.
PG&E has indicated its intent to order a significant quantity of Aclara RF electric advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) devices throughout 2008, in addition to the nearly 400,000 two-way automatic communications system power-line based electric AMI devices being installed in the Bakersfield and Vacaville areas of California.
This electric deployment is in addition to PG&E’s ongoing gas AMI installations utilizing Aclara products. The RF electric units will operate under PG&E’s installed Star Network AMI system which currently manages data from over 200,000 gas meters already installed in the Central Valley.
Aclara RF Systems is under contract with PG&E to provide a potential 4.1 million gas units over the life of the contract. In 2007, Aclara received orders for over 350,000 gas units worth $25.4 million. In 2008, Aclara has so far received orders for approximately 500,000 additional gas units worth $32.4 million to be delivered in 2008.
