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Welcome to GLEMS

August 4-7, 2025

Amway Grand Plaza Hotel | Grand Rapids, MI

Includes breakfast & lunch 

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Who we are?

About GLEMS

GLEMS balances classroom with hands-on training opportunities that highlight the correct metering methods and provides a safe environment to demonstrate incorrect activities that would result in severe injury. Students will increase their understanding of the risks related to working with high capacity circuits and be able to identify or troubleshoot metering problems.

What do we do?

Mission Statement

The Great Lakes Electric Meter School (GLEMS) was created to fill the gap in educational training of utility professionals by providing a forum of classroom and hands-on training for utility personnel.

Learning Environment

  • Balance of classroom and hands-on training.
  • Tracks designed to foster safety, growth and understanding within each topic area.
  • Exhibit hall of more than 40 metering vendors and experts.
  • Large hands-on lab area where students are exposed to real-world metering problems in a safe environment with trained instructors.

Target Audience

  • Employees who are new to the metering industry.
  • Experienced employees needing to update or upgrade their industry knowledge.
  • Those looking for a blend of instruction and hands-on learning.
  • Managers interested in discussing the latest industry advances.
  • Anyone interested in the latest information about electric metering.

GLEMS Reach

Student and vendor profiles have included:

  • Technicians, managers, engineers
  • Distributers, manufacturers, municipalities, utilities 
  • 36 US states represented
    • Plus the Grand Bahamas, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec

Testimonials

Bruce

Learning the terminology that linemen use and how people will attempt to tamper with meterboxes.

Frank

This is my first time attending it was very organize and lots of hands on workshop

George

The labs were so beneficial. The hands on highly contributed to the understanding andretention of the material presented.

Ralph

The hands on we did have time for, and the insight of experienced people as instructors.

ACCESSIBILITY
The Great Lakes Electric Meter School cares about all our customers and is committed to facilitating and improving the accessibility and usability of our Website. We are committed to following WCAG specifications. Our Digital Accessibility Team regularly participates in discussions with practitioners, industry experts, advocates and wider audiences to improve our website accessibility features. Please be aware that our efforts to maintain accessibility and usability are a work in progress. While we strive to make the Website as accessible as possible, some issues may arise, as the range of assistive technology is constantly evolving. We appreciate your understanding.

We encourage you to report any accessibility issues you may encounter by contacting us at  eg*****@ma**********.com  or at 734-677-0503 so we can assist you. We will work with you to determine if we can provide the information, item, or transaction you seek through an alternate communication method or one that is accessible for you consistent with applicable law (for example, through telephone support)