OVO Energy, based in Bristol city centre and London, is one of just a few companies already using smart meters to offer innovative products, such as rewarding customers for charging their electric vehicles at off-peak times. These offers, made possible thanks to a smart meter, help customers use energy at times when there is less demand on the grid, in turn saving money on their bills.
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The document was produced as part of the association’s open networks project – an industry initiative to establish the future roles and responsibilities of networks, and foster the creation of a smart grid.
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We all know that the delayed national rollout of smart meters is going to have to ramp up steeply in the coming couple of years in order to meet expectations for every home in the UK to have been offered a smart gas and electric meter by 2020. From the handful of SMETS1 installations currently made each day, suppliers will need to achieve a rate of around 5,000 SMETS 2 meters per day at peak, after the Data and Communications Company central system goes live.
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The smart meter programme started out as a good idea but is being “badly implemented”, said University of Oxford energy policy professor Dieter Helm. The decision to give suppliers responsibility for the roll out has “dogged the programme ever since”.
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