DAYTON, Tenn. – The City Council took a $1.7 million step toward meeting new Tennessee Valley Authority energy-use standards by approving the purchase of electric meters for its customers.
The Advanced Metering Infrastructure meters will allow the city’s electric department to read customers’ usage, City Manager Frank Welch said.
The meters will be installed between now and October 2012, when TVA will require their usage. The meters will be able to indicate the times when electricity is used and will conform to a new rate structure that will see different charges for summer, winter and “transitional” months’ consumption, Welch said.
In a related matter Monday, councilmen agreed to meet for a daylong workshop Jan. 27 to consider the electric department’s five-year plan as well as needs of the water, sewer, police and fire departments.
Welch reported that downtown traffic lights have been repaired, although a controller had to be moved temporarily to the signal at U.S. Highway 27 and Walnut Grove Road, delaying reactivation of the downtown lights.