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A global leader in innovative metering solutions

Elster Electricity, LLC is a leading provider of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions that help utility companies improve revenue cycle services, customer service, delivery reliability, and workforce utilization. With more than 100 years of electricity metering experience (formerly as Westinghouse Electric Corporation and ABB Electricity Metering), Elster Electricity understands the unique requirements of utility customers worldwide and is part of the world's largest multi-utility metering company combining the leaders in electricity, water and gas metering.

Elster Electricity, LLC is owned by Elster Group GmbH which is in turn owned by CVC Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm in Europe and Asia. Elster Group’s metering holdings acquired from Ruhrgas Industries GmbH and E.ON in 2005 include electric, water, and gas metering production and sales facilities located around the world. In the U.S., Elster Group’s holdings include Elster Electricity, LLC, Elster AMCO Water, and American Meter Company.

News July 24, 2007 Elster, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of highly accurate, superior quality, integrated metering and utilization solutions, announced today that it has shipped its millionth EnergyAxis System smart meter. It is the most widely deployed AMI system in North America featuring a true two-way RF network - a technology of choice among utility companies.	News July 2, 2007 Elster Electricity, part of Elster Group, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of highly accurate, high quality, integrated metering and utilization solutions, announces that Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica (ENEE) is realizing significant cost savings and revenue recovery since it inaugurated Elster’s EnergyAxis System.
Metering to the Extremes™ *How the West is Won* Customer Satisfaction and Protecting the Environment - Salt River Project in Phoenix, Arizona delivers more than power.	News May 3, 2007 Metrix, a division of Mighty River Power Limited, and Elster Electricity, LLC, announce that Metrix is deploying Elster’s EnergyAxis System in Auckland, New Zealand. Metrix is initially deploying 5,000 meters and testing the system’s two-way meter-to-meter communication capabilities.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

ENERGYAXISŽ SYSTEM

The EnergyAxisŽ System’s new fully automated, intelligent two-way communications makes on-request meter reads and server-initiated commands a reality. Its powerful two-way communications, coupled with Elster Electricity's new electronic single phase REXŽ meter, enables utilities not only to read meters, but to change energy, demand, or time-of-use rates as needed, start or stop load profile interval recording, or initiate a service disconnect.

REXŽ METER

Elster Electricity’s REXŽ meter is an electronic, single phase electricity meter designed for residential metering. With two-way communications, it offers demand, time-of-use (TOU), load profile recording, bidirectional metering and critical tier pricing (CTP) capabilities in addition to kWh consumption measurement. The REX meter has on-board two-way radio frequency (RF) communications that permit the meter to respond to requests over an unlicensed 900 MHz local area network (LAN).

A3 ALPHA METER/COLLECTOR

The A3 ALPHAŽ meter/collector functions as a wide area network (WAN) interface, local area network (LAN) interface, and data collector within Elster Electricity’s EnergyAxisŽ System. To act as an interface and data collector, the A3 ALPHA meter/collector must be equipped with an internal telephone modem (ITM3) and internal LAN controller (ILC1) option board.