[Carry_Okie]

They also respond much faster to power outages during storms since they can map the outage better.

The meters are probably not the reason for that. Power companies now use reflectometry to find the line break. It is very accurate.

[Paladin2]

They respond much slower to outages for small clusters of outage as they can more easily prioritize where to send the crews. We used to get faster repair as we live near a service center.