Smart meters. If you agree to have a smart meter installed, we will arrange a convenient appointment for the installation. If we or our agent are not let into your property for the appointment, we may charge you the costs of that visit, unless you gave us at least 48 hours' notice of cancellation. If you had a smart meter installed by your previous supplier we will treat it as a traditional credit meter until such time as we notify you that we are able to utilise its smart functionality. If the smart meter is operating in prepayment mode and you wish to continue on a prepayment tariff then we may replace your smart prepayment meter with a traditional prepayment meter.
Smart meters. Single phase whole current Smart Meters shall comply with technical specifications as provided in Annexure – A, three phase whole current Single Smart Meters shall comply with technical specifications as provided in Annexure – B, three phase CT operated smart meters shall comply with technical specifications as provided in Annexure – C. The AMISP has to furnish valid BIS certification before the supply of meters.
Smart meters. The utility may appropriately increase the timeline of the project in case of larger deployments> Please Note:
Smart meters. 1.3.3 We may contact you at any time to offer you a Smart meter. We will arrange an appointment with you for the installation of this. If you repeatedly refuse to allow us to install a Smart Meter, you may not be eligible for our full range of products and services, which may include specific Smart Meter tariffs which may be cheaper.
Smart meters. Smart meters are a technological example of the renewable industry entering the SEP licensing arena19. Smart meters typically consist of: an electricity smart meter, a gas smart meter, a communications hub, and an in-home display (“IHD”). The communications hub creates a network called the Home Area Network (“HAN”): this links the IHD with the smart meter. The IHD shows how much energy is being used or sold back to the grid. The Wide Area Network (“WAN”) is how the communications hub sends the meter readings to the servers of the energy supplier.20 Information is transmitted over a WAN using mobile-phone or radio masts, sent from each property’s communications hub. It is the data transfer via wireless communication protocols for HAN or cellular networks for WAN that involve the use of standardised communications technologies and therefore the use of SEPs. Why renewable firms will contribute to standards Renewable firms will amplify their patenting practices in order to contribute to standards21 and reap the benefits that arise from having SEPs. Ownership of SEPs can have a dramatic impact on a renewable firm’s performance and market evolution. This is because it can lock markets into specific, often partially proprietary technical solutions for an extended period of time22. Renewable firms will first start to engage in early standard development for technologies such as smart meters or electric vehicles, so that they can influence the adopted technology in the standard23. This is particularly important in the nascent renewable space, where the standards which are developed and set today may well become the fundamental technology platform for emerging technologies and applications in the future. Renewable firms will endeavour to direct the underlying technology of the standard to technologies which they have proprietary interest over, for example, in the form of patent protection. The primary benefit being that a renewable firm will have a portfolio of patents that read onto the standard specification and thus receive royalty revenue for a period of time. Of course, firms can use the SEP status not only for royalty revenue but also to demand cross licences instead (again, highlighting the use of patents as a litigation tool). Thus 19 The role of SEPs in smart meters has already been recognised by the wider industry – with Avanci, a global leader in joint licensing solutions, launching a program for 4G smart meters in 2023. The Avanci 4G Meter licence, offer...
Smart meters. Within the scope of the MAtchUP, 606 smart meters (for residential) and 9 smart control power quality meters (for public buildings) will be deployed, enabling the development of Energy services to customers, like dynamic electricity data platform and provision of data sets from energy meters in a standardized format. This data will be aggregated at various scales, possibly from individual to building or district scales. To complement available data, supply of complementary standardized aggregated data, supply of contextual data and integration into the urban data platform.
Smart meters. Single Phase & Three Phase whole current smart meters shall comply with IS 16444 (latest version). Three Phase CT operated meter shall comply IS 16444: Part 2. The contractor has to furnish valid BIS certification before supply of meters. After meter installation, customer identification no., meter ID, its hardware & software configuration, name plate details, make, type i.e. 1 Phase or 3 Phase shall be updated in DCU/HES/MDM. The information would also be updated on the portal/app for providing information to consumers. The Basic Features of Smart Meter shall be:
Smart meters. 25 . 1 Further details on smart meters can be found on our website, along with our smart meter installati on code of practice.
Smart meters. Smart meters enable various actors of the electricity chain getting information about production and consumption at each grid connection point. They help the final consumer which can also be a small producer to be aware of its consumption/production patterns, they allow suppliers (often the consumer’s BRP) to schedule the planned consumption more accurately and they provide the DSO with a better overview of the production and demand and to detect grid faults. TSOs also have an interest in being forwarded the aggregated data from smart meters. As mentioned in section 2.2, smart metering is an essential enabler of DR. This is especially true in the case of aggregated DR. Indeed, to offer flexibility services of a reasonable size, aggregators can mobilise a large pool of small-sized flexibility resources and each needs to be equipped with a smart meter. Since 2006, a growing body of legal provisions on the deployment of smart meters in the EU has been adopted [93]. In the 2009 E-Directive, a target for the deployment of smart meters was set to EU MSs. They had to conduct by September 2012 a cost-benefit assessment of the deployment of “intelligent metering systems” in their countries. If positive, then at least 80% of the consumers had to be equipped with a smart meter by 2020 [94]. Despite this target, a 2020 report for the European Commission has shown that as of 2018, only “34% of all electricity metering points were equipped with a smart meter” in the EU-28 [95]. The authors estimate that the threshold of 80% of the connected customers equipped with a smart meter in the EU will not be reached before 2024 at least, possibly later [96]. This report as well as another more recent report show that the level of deployment varies strongly between countries, with some having reached 100% long ago and others only starting [97]. Such difference in deployment should be overcome as smart meters are an important means to facilitate the energy transition at the least possible cost, it is therefore crucial to follow up on the rapid deployment of smart meters that are compatible with the access rules of the flexibility markets. The 2019 E-Directive maintains a focus on smart meters, although the relevant provision was slightly altered [98]. Moreover, the 2019 E-Directive now also regulates the deployment of smart meters [99]. First, the directive defines a “smart metering system” as: an electronic system that is capable of measuring electricity fed into the grid or elec...
Smart meters. Smart meters are defined in the 1989 Electricity Act as meters that can send and receive information through an external electronic communication network [192]. By contrast to the definition in EU law (see section 3.2.1 above), it does not refer to the possibility of remote control. Apart from this, the 1989 Electricity Act enables licenced electricity suppliers to provide “a smart meter communication service”[193], although there are some exemption to the license obligation. See for more detail SMILE deliverable D7.3 [194]. On 31 December 2020, there were 23.6 million smart meters in homes and small businesses in Great Britain [195]. This figure represents 42% of all meters in Great Britain [196]. The earlier mentioned Energy White Paper stated that it remains the UK’s ambition “to achieve market-wide rollout of smart meters as soon as practicable”, although without setting an end date [ 197 ]. To accelerate this deployment, Ofgem is setting new rules for suppliers [198]. Until 30 June 2021, suppliers were obliged to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to rollout smart meters. From July 2021, suppliers will have to comply with binding annual installation targets. “Failure to achieve the annual installation targets will be a breach of a supplier’s licence”. In addition to accelerating and better controlling the rollout of smart meters, Ofgem has also decided in April 2021 to extend the deployment of half-hourly settled smart meters to the market, “including for domestic customers for whom it was optional until now”[ 199 ]. It aims at achieving the full deployment of these advanced smart meters by October 2025 [200]. By end 2020, only 1.3 out of the
