Comcore DA28 single-phase prepaid smart electricity meter with its display, indicator lamps and open terminal cover, lit from the upper left on a dark floor
Comcore DA28 single-phase prepaid smart meterProduct image, AI-lit from manufacturer photograph, not an installation

Facilitated online executive simulation

Learn AMI. Operate the decision.

AMPERE places a utility team inside one connected modernization journey. Participants assess readiness, design a pilot, respond to changing evidence and defend a responsible recommendation.

  • Simulation control: facilitated
  • 07 connected missions
  • Cohort controlled
  • Evidence release
  • Board output

The device every mission comes back to

Seven decisions. One real meter.

Readiness, pilot design, commissioning and the Board recommendation all trace back to the same field device. Comcore DA28, a single-phase prepaid smart meter, supplied by Metro Power.

A WORKING SIMULATION

One simulated AMI program. Seven executive decisions.

The workshop asks a cross-functional utility team to make decisions with incomplete information, changing conditions and accountable evidence.

SIMULATED TIME
Monday morning to three months later, closing at the executive review
LIVE DELIVERY
Two days, scheduled with each cohort
DECISION POINTS
Seven, each closing on one controlled output
CLOSING OUTPUT
A Board recommendation and a 90-day action plan
  • INCOMPLETE INFORMATION

    Teams choose before every answer exists, and name what is still unknown as a workshop assumption rather than a finding.

  • CHANGING CONDITIONS

    A timed project update arrives during pilot design, and the business case has to survive it without losing traceability.

  • ACCOUNTABLE EVIDENCE

    Each mission closes on one controlled output, so a later reader can see which evidence carried the decision.

01THE AMPERE EXECUTIVE SIMULATION

Every mission becomes evidence for the Board.

Select a mission to see the situation, decision and controlled output. Facilitators release evidence as the simulated program advances.On a phone, swipe across the mission choices.

MISSION 01GOVERNANCE

MONDAY MORNING

Are we ready, and why should we pursue AMI?

Define the utility problem before selecting technology. Identify evidence, readiness gaps, accountable owners and the conditions that could reasonably delay a pilot.

CONTROLLED OUTPUTReadiness position and executive problem statement
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02DESIGNED FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION

Preparation, live decisions and accountable follow-through.

The classroom program becomes a paced digital experience that protects attention while preserving the original simulation logic. A full workshop usually runs across two full days, and the exact schedule is agreed with each cohort.

  1. 01PRE-WORK · 60 TO 90 MIN

    Understand AMI architecture, the AMPERE lifecycle and the utility’s preliminary readiness position.

  2. 02LIVE LAB 1 · 3 HOURS

    Align leadership, define the real operating problem and select a representative pilot area.

  3. 03LIVE LAB 2 · 3 TO 3.5 HOURS

    Design the pilot, build the business case, respond to the curveball and complete commissioning.

  4. 04LIVE LAB 3 · 3 HOURS

    Operate the dashboard, evaluate results and defend the recommendation before the Board.

  5. 05ACTION REVIEW · 60 TO 90 MIN

    Convert workshop decisions into evidence gaps, owners, deadlines and a 90-day action plan.

HOW THE ONLINE WORKSHOP OPERATES

The website prepares the cohort. Zoom runs the live decision room.

No second website or participant account is required. Metro Power approves the cohort, sends controlled Zoom invitations and delivers the simulation through live briefings, polls, breakout rooms and facilitated review.

  • Where the step happens
  • Order of the steps
  • Teams split out and report back
  • Access held by Metro Power throughout
  • The one live control
Drawn arrangement of how a cohort is approved, invited, prepared, run and consolidated. Everything in it is drawn, because Metro Power supplies none of it. It is not a photograph of a Metro Power workshop.
01 Cohort approval
Metro Power confirms the organization, decision objective, participant functions, schedule and workshop fit before any invitation exists.
02 Individual invitation
Each approved attendee receives an invitation for the agreed sessions in their own name. Links should not be forwarded or shared.
03 Pre-work release
Participants receive the orientation, readiness questions and authorized preparation materials before the first live lab.
04 Live simulation
The facilitator releases missions in sequence, sends teams into breakout rooms for analysis and brings every decision back to the plenary room.
05 Controlled follow-through
Metro Power consolidates outputs, evidence gaps, owners and the proposed 90-day action plan after the workshop.
Participant
Uses the individual invitation, joins the assigned breakout team, contributes authorized utility evidence and helps complete mission outputs.
Facilitator
Guides the decision sequence, releases scenarios and curveballs, manages breakout work, challenges assumptions and protects the evidence chain.
Administrator
Controls registration, approved email addresses, meeting settings, attendance, recordings, materials, privacy and the official workshop record.

03ONE UTILITY TEAM

Every function sees a different risk.

A strong cohort combines decision authority, technical evidence, commercial discipline and consumer responsibility. Each function arrives at the same table with a different instrument, and the workshop is designed so none of them can answer alone.

Drawn arrangement of one cross-functional cohort. The meter is a Comcore product photograph, shown as equipment. Everything else is drawn, and the table is not a photograph of a Metro Power workshop.
Executive sponsor
Owns the decision, governance and Board direction.Brings the decision itself: the objective the program has to serve, and the authority to approve or stop it.
Engineering and metering
Tests field feasibility, architecture and acceptance.Brings the device and the network it has to survive: installation conditions, communications, acceptance evidence.
ICT and cybersecurity
Owns integration, access, data and continuity controls.Brings the integration and the threat model: who may reach the data, through which interface, and what happens when a link fails.
Finance and procurement
Tests affordability, funding, payback and traceability.Brings the money and its traceability: CAPEX, funding route, payback assumptions and the audit trail behind each figure.
Billing and customer service
Protects meter-to-bill integrity and consumer outcomes.Brings the consumer: the bill that must stay correct, the complaint that must be answerable, the explanation that must be honest.
Planning and regulatory
Connects the pilot to evidence, authority and scale gates.Brings the service area and the gate: which feeders, which approvals, and what evidence a scale decision will need.

PROGRAM ACCESS

Public orientation.
Invitation-only Zoom delivery.

OPEN TO VISITORS

Program overview, AMI foundations, the mission map and workshop application remain public on this website.

APPROVED COHORT

Only confirmed participants receive the Zoom schedule, individual invitation and authorized pre-work materials.

FACILITATOR CONTROL

Curveball timing, intended dashboard priorities, Board questions and evaluation notes are released only when the simulation requires them.

04 · What the utility leaves with

A decision record the team can act on.

Metro Power assembles the team’s mission outputs into an executive workshop record. Completion confirms participation. It does not replace engineering, regulatory or procurement approval.

  1. 01AMI readiness baselineCONTROLLED
  2. 02Pilot-area decisionCONTROLLED
  3. 03Preliminary pilot architectureCONTROLLED
  4. 04Business-case assumptionsCONTROLLED
  5. 05Risk and governance registerCONTROLLED
  6. 06Commissioning evidenceCONTROLLED
  7. 07Operations-response matrixCONTROLLED
  8. 08Pilot evaluationCONTROLLED
  9. 09Board recommendationCONTROLLED
  10. 1090-day action planCONTROLLED