01342 332057
info@utilityweek.co.uk
More than a quarter of energy customers have not been offered a smart meter, despite government targets to offer the devices to all homes by 2020.
7 years ago
The regulator has approved a data privacy plan submitted by Western Power Distribution setting out its proposed arrangements for collecting, processing and storing the information based on half-hourly consumption data from domestic smart meter customers.
The deadline for the installation of the first generation of energy smart meters (SMETS1) faces yet another extension as the government consults on plans to move the end date back by eight weeks.
The headline figure, revealed in an annual report, consists of £7.8 billion of direct benefits, £8.8 billion of indirect benefits and a £542 million reduction in funding for networks companies.
The survey, published by Igloo Energy, claims that despite huge efforts by the government and the sector to encourage take-up, only 34 per cent of households have a smart meter.
Energy suppliers are failing to inform consumers that smart meters are likely to go “dumb”
The government must take action to address the slow progress of the smart meter rollout,
"Only with a transformation to smart energy and smart meters will the UK be able to have a reliable and sustainable energy system"
The government has awarded £8.8 million of funding to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
The number of energy customers forced to install prepayment meters has risen for the first
The number of installed SMETS2 meters has crossed 1,000, Greg Clark has revealed. Responding to
Findings from a new disrupting utilities survey by consultants PwC, which looked at UK consumer attitudes to smart technology, indicate the growing market could be increasingly lucrative for energy suppliers.
Data security is in the limelight like never before following the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March of this year. But has this changed consumer perception with regard to utility companies, or affected attitudes to the adoption of smart technology?
With the clock ticking on the great smart meter rollout, could there finally be some
Apparently so, opposition peers were assured this week, when junior Department for Business, Energy and
The integrated software provider ESG has bought smart meter specialists Aprose Solutions. In a statement
Simble Solutions will launch into the UK metering market in June via UK software company Utiligroup. Its smart meter software will be integrated with Utiligroup’s uSmart platform and offered to utility suppliers.
The government has pledged to publish an action plan outlining how it intends to overcome the operational and technical bugbears holding back delivery of its smart meter programme by the end of this year.
Npower profits rose by more than a quarter over the first three months of 2018 as continued customer losses were offset by increased demand and reduced costs.
Firms with an “energy strategy” are twice as likely to be ahead in the market and outperforming competitors, reveals research from Centrica Business Solutions.