Chugach Electric continues meter replacement program

They are known as smart meters, and if you’re a Chugach Electric customer there’s a good chance you got one recently or are about to. Chugach information manager Julie Hasquet said the project to replace 80,000 aging utility meters on Anchorage homes should be completed by the end of the summer.
So what makes a meter smart? Hasquet said it has to do with the way they transmit information.
“They’re smarter because the technology is so much more advanced and the communicati