Computer hardware and software systems incorporating advanced metering infrastructure, including metering, monitoring and control devices with integrated communications technology; computer software and software platform accessed via global communication networks for managing water and energy costs and uses and for optimizing water and energy procurement procedures by collecting, managing, analyzing, mining, integrating, reporting, benchmarking, validating, managing load-reduction programs, forecasting, billing, managing, analyzing, and reporting water, energy and energy-related data; Computer software platforms for computer database management software used for receiving and monitoring energy usage information from multiple remote commodity meters in the public utilities, gas utilities, electric utilities and water utilities industries; electric utility meters, namely, gas meters, electric meters, and water meters; Computer software for use in distributed information access and collection and building device integration, control and management for use in water and energy management, namely, use, analysis and purchasing of the same; for transmission and distribution line design and optimization; electronic interface modules; Electronic interface modules for receiving and transmitting energy-related information and requests between a commodity meter and a host computer over a wide area network and a local area network to input or output CNC computer numerical control data ; Electric utility meters, namely, gas meters, electric meters, and water meters