About 1.8 million electric meters will be updated along with 600,000 natural gas meters for customers by the end of 2017, two years earlier than initially scheduled.
Consumers Energy customer operations and quality vice president Garrick Rochow said: "Our high customer satisfaction and growing customer interest in the benefits of the new meters are moving us to speed up our original schedule. We started updating meters in West Michigan and we will be in multiple regions simultaneously around the state by mid-year 2015.
"We are seeing excellent performance from meters we have already installed, enabling us to bring enhanced service to more customers sooner."
Since summer 2012, more than 275,000 residents and small business owners in West Michigan have received upgraded meters.
