Smart Meters: Measuring Britain´s Challenge

Smart Meters: measuring Britain's challenge In May 2009, the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the Government's plans to install smart meters in all households by 2020 and launched a public consultation on smart metering for electricity and gas in Britain (the Consultation). The Consultation includes high level proposals for the roll-out of smart meters to domestic households and certain small and medium non-domestic (business and public) sites. This roll-out will transform (and has the potential to revolutionise) metering as well as patterns of energy production and consumption. Following on from our article discussing the Consultation (to view the full article please click here), over the coming few months Law-Now will present a series of updates and comments on the topic of smart metering. These updates are likely to be of interest to all those in a variety of sectors, including energy suppliers, distributors, consumers, communications