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Smart Energy Meters

The Smart Way to Cut Your Energy Bills.

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  Government announces its commitment to deliver smart meters.

 

On the 11th May 2009, the United Kingdom’s Government announced it intends to mandate smart meters for all households, with an indicative timetable for completion by the end of 2020.

In other countries around the world, the introduction of smart meters is transforming the way that consumers interact with energy suppliers.

What are smart meters and their function?

What are the benefits of smart metering?

Smart meters are the next generation of electricity and gas meters.

Smart metering benefits consumers, energy suppliers and the environment.

Smart meters perform the traditional meter function of measuring energy.

Smart meters will play an important role in our transition to a low-carbon economy.

Smart metering also allows energy companies to modernize grids and their management, and decrease the need for future power plants and infrastructure.

Smart meters allow suppliers to remotely record customers’ gas and electricity use.

Smart meters let the consumers see how much energy they are using.

Smart meters will enable customers to make the choice on how much energy they use.

Smart meters will end the need to read meters, meaning huge savings for energy firms and should result in falling bills for the consumer?

Smart meters can be used to program your washing machine, dishwasher to run at night when electricity costs less, and in doing so reduce peak demand.

Smart meters will help play an important role in our transition to a low-carbon economy.

The information provided by smart meters can revolutionize the way households consume energy, and possible reduce demand by 10%.

The domestic sector in the UK is responsible for about one-third of the nation’s carbon emissions, and the government has become increasingly focused on the need for greater energy efficiency in the nation's homes.

The electricity and gas council, Energywatch, says smart meters are vital if these goals are to be realised.

The missing link at this point is the facility for the consumers to know how much energy they are using.

In the UK alone some 26 million electricity and 22 million gas meters will need to be fitted at a cost of £7bn.

Energy providers will have the responsibility to fit the meters in what amounts to the biggest program of work since British Gas converted appliances in 17 million homes to natural gas in the 1970s.

The Government believes we could all save around 2% of our energy use. That would cut £100m from our bills by 2020. It could also reduce our CO2 emissions by 2.6m tonnes.

A new industry-backed Central Communications body will be established to handle all the meter reading data.