Avista installing smart meters in Ritzville area

Avista recently announced that it is beginning to install new smart meters in Ritzville and Adams County.

Last week, The Journal received a letter from Avista stating that a crew would be visiting our office in the following weeks to install the smart meters. The smart meters, Avista says, are designed to better monitor and manage a building's energy usage, which in turn they say will allow them to "improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of energy delivery for all of our customers."

For customers, Avista says that the smart meters will:

- Provide customers with online access to charts...