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On January 30, 2026, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation (RG&E) (together, the Companies) submitted its AMI Benefit Implementation Plan for year ending December 31, 2025.

As noted in this report, in the first five years of the project, NYSEG-RGE has “substantially deployed their planned AMI system, validated the performance of that system, and demonstrated realization of significant actual benefits. In 2026, the NYSEG-RGE is positioned to significantly increase these benefits being realized from AMI.”

Moreover, for 2026 projected progress towards benefit realization indicates that there are some remaining dimensions of the AMI project which need to be completed to achieve full benefit realization. These remaining dimensions to be addressed in 2026 include:

• To reach the target count of 1,896,477 meters, another 48,217 meters need to be installed or moved to opt-out status. These incremental meters will be scheduled for the first few months of 2026.
• The communications network devices for the gas meters located in areas without electric meters (approximately 80,000 meters) need to be installed and this effort is scheduled for deployment throughout 2026.
• The integration of the AMI system with the Companies’ outage management system is largely complete, but final steps of testing need to be completed early in 2026 before the expected benefits can be realized.
• The reengineering needed to link the detailed interval consumption data to the customer billing system needs to be completed to enable implementation of time-variable rates. This reengineering was planned for 2025 but fell behind schedule and is now scheduled to commence in 2026.
• The full implementation of a new ADMS system for the Companies needs to be completed so that the AMI-related incremental benefits for VVO optimization can be realized. This full implementation of ADMS will be in the planning stage in 2026 and with implementation still several years away.