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Big six energy supplier SSE has installed its 100,000th smart meter as part of the national rollout.
SSE is aiming to install more than seven million smart meters across Great Britain by 2020 as part of the national infrastructure project that will digitise the energy industry and provide customers with benefits such as accurate bills.
SSE’s director of metering and smart transformation Sara Jane Asquith said SSE has been “building up slowly and learning lessons along the way to ensure we do it once and do it right”.
Fellow big six supplier British Gas has already installed more than 1.5 million meters in its customers’ homes.
Asquith added: “Once the key national infrastructure is in place next year, we’ll be able to ramp up further. Installing our 100,000th smart meter is a fantastic milestone.”
The mass rollout is scheduled to begin in August next year when suppliers join the Data and Communications Network (DCC).
Director of policy and communications at Smart Energy GB, the national consumer campaign for smart meters, Claire Maugham said: “Smart meters provide consumers with accurate bills, near real time information on energy use in pounds and pence, and greater control over their gas and electricity.
Maugham added that people who have already upgraded “are reaping the benefits of this new technology.”
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