103rd Annual SWEMA Texas Meter School
Leading Program of Its Kind
For Metering Professionals
The annual SWEMA Texas Meter School attracts metering professionals from across the United States. It's the leading program of its kind.
Join us for the 2025 SWEMA Meter School to be held on October 27- October 31, 2025.
SWEMA manages this week-long program in partnership with utilities, equipment manufacturers, and suppliers. Our partners provide expert instructors and regularly monitor and update the curriculum. The registration includes lunch for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The School meets every fall in Bryan-College Station, TX.
All Courses are $395
SWEMA takes the safety of our instructors and students seriously!
Instructors and students attending Course I, Course II, and Course III will be required to wear the PPE listed below while participating in the hands-on labs.
SWEMA's Tuesday night Bar-B-Que will be held at the Brazos Expo Center. The hospitality room will be held at the Hilton College Station, the host hotel for SWEMA Meter School.
Course I: Introduction to Electrical Metering
Course 1, "Introduction to Electrical Metering," is designed to provide a foundational understanding of electrical metering. The course covers DC and AC circuits, calculator use, meter math, and energy/power concepts. It also delves into meter theory, solid-state metering, AMI, meter forms, and single-phase load characteristics. Furthermore, the course includes practical aspects like meter testing, single-phase meter safety, installation and removal, meter diversion detection, and basic transformer theory.
Course II: Advanced Electrical Metering Technology
Course 2, "Advanced Electrical Metering," builds upon the foundational knowledge of Course 1, exploring more complex metering concepts. It includes a review of electrical power concepts, distribution transformer theory, and applications and discusses metering misapplications and errors. A significant portion of the course is dedicated to 4-wire, 3-phase wye, and delta systems, including theory and practical problem-solving, with hands-on lab sessions. Additionally, it covers distribution-level instrument transformer theory, testing, installation, and metering applications.
Course III: Complex Electrical Metering Technology
Course 3, "Complex Electrical Metering Technology," delves into advanced topics within electrical metering. Key focus areas include meter installation wiring concepts, in-service testing of instrument transformers, and troubleshooting AMI devices. The course also covers VAR metering, billing vs. metering accuracy, grounding, metering and billing errors, integrated communications, ferroresonance, and advanced meter testing. This course emphasizes practical application and the complexities of modern metering technology, also touching on SCADA principles and KYZ metering.
Course IV: - National Generation & Transmission Metering (NG&T)
Course 4, "National Generation/Transmission Metering," focuses on metering in the context of national generation and transmission systems. Topics include gross and net generation metering, deregulated markets, and understanding one- and three-line metering schematics. The course also addresses field testing of facilities and solid-state meters, substation communication types, and advanced communications protocols. Other areas of study include instrument transformers, safety in high-voltage substations, reactive meter measurement, advanced transformer and line loss compensation, power quality effects, and advanced SCADA principles.
Course V: - A La Carte Class Choice
Course V:, “A La Carte Class” Choice allows the student to attend any sections of Courses I through IV.
SWEMA Supplemental Metering Math Course
Join us for The Supplemental Meter Math Course to be held on March 25-27 2025 or August 19-21, 2025.