South Mississippi Electric Power Association - Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Associated Smart Grid Investments for Rural Mississippi - FINAL REPORT
Aug. 15, 2015
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
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South Mississippi Electric Power Association (SMEPA), a generation and transmission cooperative, deployed an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system to benefit not only SMEPA but also five of its member distribution cooperatives: Coast Electric Power Association (Coast), Magnolia Electric Power Association (Magnolia), Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association (Pearl River), Southern Pine Electric Power Association (Southern Pine), and Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association (Southwest). The AMI system has enabled two-way communication between SMEPA and its member cooperatives' substation meters and between the member cooperatives and their customers' meters. Additionally, three of the member cooperatives (Magnolia, Southwest, and Pearl River) implemented supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
