Case Study: Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative boosts meter-reading accuracy and efficiency with Verizon Grid Wide

How Grid Wide is bringing value to Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative

Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative, a nonprofit utility serving about 5,700 accounts in rural areas, needed a better way to read meters and manage irrigation pump demand without sending technicians into hard-to-reach locations. Manual meter reading created coverage issues, liability risks, billing errors, and time-consuming rework, so the cooperative looked for an end-to-end solution that would improve service without major infrastructure changes.

Verizon Business implemented Verizon Grid Wide: Intelligent Energy, connecting trial meters in rural locations and then rolling out a plug-and-play solution integrated with Ashley-Chicot’s billing system. The cooperative gained remote meter provisioning, monitoring, and near real-time visibility into irrigation pump usage, which improved reading accuracy, reduced mistakes, and freed staff to focus on other work; Verizon Business also positioned Ashley-Chicot to add remote disconnects, outage texts, and pre-paid services in the future.

Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative

Rodney Chapman

General Manager