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Metering International is launched.

Entity – a consortium of PRI, Secure Metering Ltd. of India and Plesgem, South Africa – is formed.

DLMS (device language message specification) is introduced as an IEC international standard.

International meter test company MTE Meter Test Equipment AG is formed.

ABB buys GEC Meters (UK) – GEC is renamed ABB Metering Systems Ltd.

Email Meters of Australia acquires 20% shareholding in Ampy Automation of the UK.

California becomes the first US state to deregulate its energy utilities, expecting consumers to benefit from lower power prices.

www.metering.com is launched.

Landis & Gyr installs 1 millionth prepayment Quantum gas meter in the UK.

Discussions start on the European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID).

The STS (Standard Transfer Specification) Association formed to ensure interoperability between multi-vendor prepayment systems.

Itron and Schlumberger sign a memorandum of understanding to co-operate in pursuing AMR business opportunities throughout Europe.

The first handheld unit running under Windows is developed and marketed.

Kansas City Power & Light completes the largest operational fixed-point network meter reading system to date, consisting of 365,000 residential meters.

Metering International’s first conference activity – ‘Metering – A Deregulation Survival Kit’ – is held in London.

Siemens acquires Landis & Gyr, merged with its own metering business. The new Siemens Metering Division becomes the largest manufacturer of electricity meters worldwide.

Gruner AG introduces the world’s first 63A 3-phase latching relay.

The Chinese government unveils a $34 billion plan to improve the power distribution network, including a one household one meter policy.

NEM (National Electricity Market) created in Australia to introduce a competitive market.

Analog Devices, Inc. develops a family of fixed function DSPs for electronic meters; the first in the family, the AD7750, is designed to directly drive a stepper motor counter.

The UK is the first country in the world to allocate airwave space to utilities as the 184 MHz radio waveband is dedicated to automatic reading of meters in the electricity, gas and water sectors.

The first Metering Europe conference & exhibition is held in Madrid, Spain.

Spain’s electricity market is fully deregulated.

The first Windows software for meter test systems is introduced.

Peco Energy Company in Philadelphia announces a fixed data network AMR system for 2 million electricity and gas meters.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority implements island-wide AMR system to cover 1.3 M sites.

Some 15 million customers – more than half the total number in the UK – can choose their electricity supplier.

Invensys Measurement Services (IMServ LLC) is created to provide an innovative range of services for gas, water and electricity utilities.

The first Metering America, Metering Asia-Pacific and Metering Africa conferences held in Curaçao, Bangkok and Nairobi respectively.

Schneider Electric acquires Conlog, a South African-based manufacturer of prepayment meters.

California’s power crisis is blamed on deregulation.

UK regulator OFFER becomes Ofgem.

Japan's power market is deregulated, as surplus power generated by non-utility companies can be sold. However, purchasers are committed to buying more than 500 kW.

The first GPRS networks are rolled out.

MTE Meter Test Equipment and EMH Energie Messtechnik acquire meter test companies HEG Hamburger Elektronik Gesellschaft Ltd. and EDI Electronic Engineering Ltd.

Actaris acquires the former business interests of Schlumberger RMS, except for electricity and water meters in North America.

Viterra becomes a full service metering company, operating in 27 countries.

Energy metering system supplier Enermet Group and Nokia sign a co-operation agreement to develop a wireless communication system that reads energy metering data remotely over GSM networks and the Internet.

Bluetooth™ - a universal radio interface that allows electronic devices to communicate wirelessly via short-range ad-hoc radio connections – emerges as a viable technology for the utility industry.

Itron Inc. ships the 20 millionth ERT meter module.

ENEL in Italy announces a project to deploy 27 million AMR meters.

Meralco, in the Philippines, integrates billing, call centre and CIS functions for 3.9 million households.

Ruhrgas Industries of Germany buys ABB’s worldwide metering interests – Elster Electricity, Elster Metering, American Meter Company and AMCO Water.

Siemens withdraws from the metering business by divesting the renamed Landis+Gyr Group to American financial investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) sign a co-operative agreement to establish global technical standards.

Chinese exports of electricity meters jump from 3.3M in 2001 to 10.9M.

PPL Electric Utilities implements the largest two-way powerline AMR system for its 1.3 M electric customers.

Metering Latin America held for the first time in Sao Paulo, Brazi

Sweden passes a law requiring monthly meter reads for all 900,000 consumers by 2009.

Massive power outages in the north-east and mid-west United States leave close to 50 M customers without power.

Metering International launches a Chinese edition of the magazine.

Metering International launches Spanish/Portuguese edition.

The Euridis Association is formed; this protocol covers the development of remote reading products.

Itron Inc. announces its attention to acquire Schlumberger Electricity Metering.

There are over 5 million electricity prepayment meters installed in South Africa.

Invensys plc announces its intention to divest certain assets, including Invensys Metering Systems. The Metering Systems group is bought by a private equity group and renamed Sensus Metering Systems.

Bayard Energy, a division of Australian-based Bayard Capital, acquires Landis+Gyr, which is awarded a 1.5 million meter point AMR order from ACEA, of Rome, Italy.

Ontario, Canada announces plans to introduce smart metering to all customers by 2010.

All C&I customers in Europe can choose their energy supplier.

The European Measuring Instruments Directive is finally ratified.

IMS Research reports installed base of electricity meters in EMEA to be 398 M meters, with 246 M in the Americas. Installed gas meters are 187M in EMEA and 84M in the Americas. Installed water meters are 243M in EMEA and 139M in the Americas.

Australian Country Energy and Ampy Email Metering launch Australia’s first advanced metering project.

Xcel Energy announces its Utility Innovations initiative with partnership members IBM, Indus, Itron, SPL WorldGroup and Mercury.

Elster Metering Group is formed when the Ruhrgas Industries Group is acquired by CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in the UK.

The US Energy Policy Act 2005 is signed into law, setting out requirements for time-of-use and demand response initiatives that will lead to an increased deployment of smart meters.

The ZigBee Alliance™ confirms that over 6,000 OEMs, vendors, service providers, designers and educators have registered to download the ZigBee specification, in under two months.

An Ofgem report indicates there are 3.8 million electricity and 2.1 million gas prepayment meters installed in the UK.

The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by most major countries; the US and Australia decide not to sign.

The governments of Thailand and Sri Lanka embark on power sector reforms.

TDK Semiconductor Corp., provider of mixed-signal integrated circuits, changes its name to Teridian Semiconductor Corp. The company was bought earlier this year from TDK-USA by Golden Gate Capital and members of the management team.

CRM applications provider Oracle Corporation announces that it will buy Siebel Systems, Inc.

GE Energy announces the sale of its one millionth I-210 solid state residential electricity meter.

The Bayard Group buys Hunt Technologies and the Enermet Group OY, Finland, making it the largest metering group in the world.

The IEEE begins work on five standards to create a multi-source, plug-and-play communications environment for electricity, water and gas meters.

Landis+Gyr US ships its 1 millionth FOCUS® meter.

Elster Electricity receives accreditation as an authorised service provider from Measurement Canada.

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric plans to install smart meters for all its 1.3 electricity customers by 2010.

Echelon’s NES system is chosen by Swedish utility Vattenfall and Dutch utility NUON.

Entity – a consortium of PRI, Secure

DATA SOURCES:

ABS Energy ResearchAlan Dick, Lecmet ConsultingHoward Scott, Cognyst ConsultingIMS ResearchMetering InternationalPatrick Hodges, MicroUtility

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Bayard Energy, a division of Australian-based Bayard Capital, acquires Landis+Gyr, which is awarded acquires Landis+Gyr, which is awarded a 1.5 million meter point AMR order from ACEA, of Rome, Italy.

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acquires Landis+Gyr, which is awarded

Xcel Energy announces its Utility Innovations initiative with partnership members IBM, Indus, Itron,