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Senior Metering Analyst – Portland, OR – #113692 (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97218)

June 28, 2025
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Power Your Greatness

PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability inclusion & belonging.

 
 

General Purpose

As the Senior Metering Analyst, you will conduct analysis through research, gathering and interpretation of data from meter reading and work force management systems. Design and document Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meter reading system processes. Analyze and operate AMI meter reading system

Responsibilities

  • Develop and design business processes for AMI meter reading system.
  • Develop training documents for AMI system users.
  • Lead and conduct AMI meter reading system testing.
  • Analyze AMI system errors and determine appropriate course of action. 
  • Utilize Single-Person Scheduling (SPS) software to analyze and schedule work orders to field technicians.
  • Utilize Field Collection System (FCS) software to analyze and schedule meter reading routes to field technicians.
  • Communicate with field technicians to resolve hardware / software issues. 
  • Resolve orders from SPS audit log.
  • Run and analyze performance reports required by operations managers.
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Net Metering and Time-Variant Rates Drive Solar Power and Energy Storage Growth [PODCAST]

April 29, 2018
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Nevada law has included net metering provisions for more than 20 years. Net metering is an arrangement that allows energy generated by a customer’s leased or purchased solar system to offset monthly power bills. It also permits excess energy supplied to the grid to earn credits, which are then automatically applied to future billing periods in which more energy is consumed than produced.

Historically, net metering was a one-for-one transaction in Nevada. For every kWh supplied to the grid, a credit was given to the customer for one kWh in the future. The scheme changed in 2015 when the Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) created a laddered approach that ratcheted down the value of customer-generated energy over a period of years to about 2¢/kWh, which was much less than the retail rate of about 11¢/kWh. The change effectively stopped all construction on new residential rooftop solar systems.

Through Assembly Bill 405 (AB 405), the Nevada Legislature modified the net metering rate structure effective June 15, 2017.…

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