Smart metering

More than 6 million SMETS2 smart meters installed on network

Smart meters could help identify health issues among vulnerable

Calisen to acquire 1.3m smart meters

Smart metering company Calisen been awarded preferred bidder status on a portfolio of 1.3 million units. This takes its total pipeline for 2025 to 13.2 million smart meters.

Octopus continues growth with acquisition of Upside Energy

Ofgem proposes to increase performance penalties for DCC

Covid is a moment of opportunity in the battle against fuel poverty

Smart meter installs increase year-on-year for first time since lockdown

Consumer trust ‘is essential to energy transition’

Building consumer trust in the energy sector, as well as using technology to drive forward change, will be key components of the energy transition, industry observers have stressed. Speaking during a panel discussion at the annual Energy UK conference, industry leaders discussed the future of energy retail markets following the pandemic.

Covid should ‘supercharge’ smart PPM rollout

Smart meter deal to solve procurement issues for challengers

Landis+Gyr has renewed its partnership with Calvin Capital in a deal it says will reduce the challenges faced by smaller energy suppliers in procuring smart meters. Under the new deal Landis+Gyr will provide SMETS2 smart meters to challenger energy brands which use Calvin Capital as their meter asset provider (MAP).

EDF MD: Why I was wrong about the pandemic

Six months into the pandemic and EDF Energy has had plenty of time to understand its impact on both its business and consumers. Managing director Philippe Commaret catches up with Utility Week and explains how his fears about the impact on the smart meter rollout have dissipated, how energy consumption patterns bode well for home workers and how a new service is helping customers with a smart meter better understand their usage.

Weekend press round-up: Deadline to fix ‘dumb’ energy meters put back until end of 2021

In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, the deadline to upgrade millions of first-generation smart meters has been “quietly” extended by a year. Elsewhere EDF is set for a showdown with the Treasury over state funding for nuclear power stations. And The Times issues a plea for information about business secretary Alok Sharma, missing since March.

Smart meters or emergency brakes?

One million smart meter installs so far in 2020

The smart meter rollout showed continued signs of resurgence in August but is still lagging on last year’s figures.

Smart Metering Systems set to hit pre-Covid installation levels

Smart Metering Systems (SMS), which manages 1.3 million meters across the country, has said it expects to be back to pre-Covid levels of installations by the end of the month. Utility Week spoke to chief operating officer Tim Mortlock about the impact of Covid and how government can support a renewed push on installations. He also set out the company’s pipeline of carbon reduction assets, including a trial of a smart heating system with a national hotel chain.