Dive Summary:

• Peco Energy Co. announced on Tuesday that it would move forward with more smart meter deployments in Pennsylvania, following an August suspension that resulted from fires.
• The $650 million program has already seen 201,642 meter deployments, 186,000 of which involved Sensus units.
• Many of the Sensus meters have already been replaced with L&G devices, and 96,000 more will be replaced over the next 45 days.

From the article:

Peco Energy Co. announced Tuesday it will resume its ambitious smart-meter installation program after pulling the plug on a manufacturer whose devices had been linked to a series of fires.

The Philadelphia utility suspended the $650 million program in August after several incidents in which the electronic devices overheated and caught fire. Two of the incidents resulted in serious house fires, though none resulted in injuries. ...