Residents and businesses across the Mildura region have commenced receiving smart meters with the electorate office of Peter Crisp, Member for Mildura, having a new smart meter installed today by local electricity distribution company Powercor.
The rollout across the Mildura region is expected to continue through late 2012 as part of a Victorian Government mandated program to replace old meters with smart meter technology. By the end of 2013, all residential premises, farms and small businesses across Victoria will be fitted with a smart meter.
“The smart meter installation process was easy and only took around 30 minutes,” said Mr Crisp. “I recognise that a lot of Victorians have questions about the smart meter program and I hope that today’s installation at my electorate office will help Mildura residents better understand smart meters.”
In December 2011, the Victorian Government announced that the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Program will continue, and that all Victorian homes and businesses will have a smart meter installed.
“Four weeks prior to the smart meter installation on customer premises, customers will receive a letter from Powercor explaining the process and that letter will be accompanied by a Victorian Government notification,” said Powercor Regional Asset Manager, John Hardie.
“Powercor will then send a further letter informing customers of a 10 day period during which the meter exchange will occur. Areas scheduled for meter installations will also be advertised in local newspapers.”
To date, CitiPower and Powercor together have installed more than 650,000 smart meters across its networks and is on target to complete 1.1 million total installations by the end of 2013. State-wide, more than 2.5 million smart meters will be connected.
Smart meters offer a number of benefits over the old type of electricity meters. In Victoria, they will have the ability to:
· provide electricity consumption data in 30 minute intervals, which will eliminate the need for manual meter reads and estimated power bills;
· provide more information to help customers better understand when and how they use electricity;
· enable remote connection of electricity, such as when customers move premises;
· help the electricity distribution business to detect and locate outages and restore supply more quickly; and
· assist distribution businesses to manage networks more efficiently.
There is no installation fee for smart meters. The cost of the new meter is recovered over time through electricity bills, as is currently the case.
For more information, customers can call Powercor on 1300 783 882 or visit its website at
http://www.powercor.com.au/SmartMeters/. Information is also available from the Victorian Government on 136 186 or at www.dpi.vic.gov.au/smartmeters.






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The 25-year-old striker was observed may transfer the premier league champions Manchester city. However, Rogers said: "there won't be bidding war, suarez will stay here. If we lose luis, that we haven't striker, so I won't sell him. He must not" what do we want to sell or transfer out, we also hope to continue to reinforcing the team to complete the set. Target, we are continuously working hard this summer. Louis has signed a new contract, it shows his allegiance to the club's determination. Here he into a lot of balls, and behave very well. Here he very, very happy."
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All the key action took place in the space of two minutes around the interval as Lille's Florent Balmont saw red in first-half stoppage time before Jordan Ayew netted the only goal a minute after the restart.
OM move onto 26 points, level with PSG but second to the capital club on goal difference. Lille are ninth as their inconsistent campaign continues.
Marseille welcomed controversial midfielder Joey Barton into their line-up for the first time in Ligue 1 following the expiry of his 12-game domestic ban.
Marseille moved level on points with Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain with a 1-0 win over 10-man Lille at Stade Velodrome on Sunday.
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Sheffield Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric has given under-pressure manager Dave Jones a vote of confidence.
He said in a statement: "Like everyone connected with Sheffield Wednesday, I am disappointed with the position of the team in the table. But the key word here is team, because that is what we are, from the top of the club to the bottom.
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"Trust me, we will accomplish our aim of consolidation and continue to build for the future. The easiest way to do this, if there is an easy way, is to all stick together. Which is why I ask our wonderful and loyal supporters to stay behind the club as one.
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"We have got players, let's be honest, who aren't playing as well as we know they can. We are struggling for a bit of confidence."
This slump has left Newcastle languishing in 14th place, just four points above the drop-zone, and Pardew knows he must work hard to instil some self-belief in his out-of-form players.
When asked if he was facing his sternest test, he said: "For sure - there's no doubt about that. We are really having to fight.
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Chelsea trio Raul Meireles, Ramires and Branislav Ivanovic will all miss the Champions League final after FIFPro's attempt to appeal the bans was turned down.
The worldwide players' union had appealed to UEFA for clemency to enable the three Blues players, plus David Alaba, Holger Badstuber and Luiz Gustavo of Bayern Munich, to play in the showpiece final on 19 May.
However, UEFA rejected their request and even went as far as to say that the rules regarding suspension would not change for at least another three years.
A statement on FIFPro's website quoted Michael van Praag, a UEFA executive committee member who heads the Champions League rules group, and who considered the appeal.
According to van Praag: "We did not receive any request whatsoever concerning the yellow card rule, not even from the representatives of Bayern Munich. And so we will be continuing the rule for the next three years."
The yellow card rules for the Champions League differ from those used in other major international tournaments. Next month's UEFA European Championships in Poland and Ukraine will see yellow cards wiped out after the quarter final stage, giving players a clean slate for the latter knock-out rounds.
FIFPro had said it felt the punishment of a ban for the final after picking up a yellow card was "disproportionate" to the offence. However, van Praag indicated that the alternative rules would remain in place for the coming years in the competition
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Osasuna boss Jose Antonio Camacho was a satisfied man his team's 4-2 win over Atletico Madrid at the Vicente Calderon.
Despite Atletico requiring maximum points to stay on the heels of Villarreal in the race for the Champions League positions, Osasuna were the better side, particularly in the second half, and in the end ran out comfortable winners.
It was the Pamplona outfits' first win on the road this season, and it came at a perfect time in the battle to avoid the drop.
Camacho stated at the post-match press conference, "This victory is very important to us. We have been struggling a lot away from home. This is our first victory away, and it is a completely fair result.
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Osasuna's win has moved them onto 32 points and has catapulted them out of the bottom three and up to 14th position, as the relegation battle intensifies in the Primera Division.
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