City of Dayton, Tennessee Selects Elster for Smart Grid Deployment

RALEIGH, N.C., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elster (NYSE: ELT) today announced that the City of Dayton, Tenn. has selected Elster's EnergyAxis® Smart Grid solution to power its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project. Elster, along with its regional distribution partner WESCO Distribution, Inc., will supply 8,000 residential and 2,000 commercial Elster REX® and A3 Alpha Smart Meters, providing efficient and cost-effective delivery of electric services to City of Dayton electric customers.

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Elster's EnergyAxis will provide the City of Dayton with automated metering infrastructure, allowing it to modernize its infrastructure to provide customers with clear pricing and usage information through time-of-use (TOU) rates. With TOU rates, the community will be able to better manage, monitor and control energy consumption and costs. The Elster Smart Meters will be installed by the Dayton Electric Department with a project completion date of September 2012.

"It is the City of Dayton's top priority to provide customers with improved energy efficiency, better customer service and more flexible rates," said Frank Welch, Dayton city manager.

"With Elster's field-proven Smart Grid solutions, we are future-proofing our technology and driving operational efficiency and business process improvements that will help cut energy costs," Welch added.

To promote energy efficiency, the Tennessee Valley Authority has recommended that its Tennessee Valley Public Power Association members migrate from seasonal rates to TOU rates.

"Elster's work with the City of Dayton represents another significant step in the Tennessee Valley Public Power Association's push to modernize its electric infrastructure with Smart Grid technology," said David Green, executive vice president, customers and markets, North America, Elster. "Elster's multi-utility EnergyAxis system provides the City of Dayton with advanced metering services, reducing outages, improving operational efficiencies and delivering new customer services for the management of personal energy consumption and rates," Green added.

About Elster

Elster (NYSE: ELT) is one of the world's largest electricity, gas and water measurement and control providers. Its offerings include distribution monitoring and control, advanced smart metering, demand response, networking and software solutions, and numerous related communications and services – key components for enabling consumer choice, operational efficiency and conservation. Its products and solutions are widely used by utilities in the traditional and emerging Smart Grid markets.  

Elster has one of the most extensive installed revenue measurement bases in the world, with more than 200 million metering modules deployed over the course of the last 10 years. It sells its products and services in more than 130 countries across electricity, gas, water and multi-utility applications for residential, commercial and industrial, and transmission and distribution applications.

For more information about Elster, please visit www.elster.com.

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