Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers? What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers?

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

More than half of electricity meters in Europe are now smart, a new report released by Berg Insight has found. The study states that the penetration of smart electricity meters has passed the 50% mark owing to increased investments in grid modernization and digitalization by utilities in the region.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

Following a tender review, local press has reported that the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) can proceed with the 400,000 smart meter rollout across the island. In February 2024 Cyprus’s Electricity Authority, the state-owned energy company, awarded the tender for the smart meter rollout to CyTA at a cost of €39.9

Energy Monitor 98

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Vaasa Sähköverkko Oy (Vaasa Electricity Network) has contracted Landis+Gyr for a 10-year smart metering project. The initiative in the Finland west coast city of Vaasa includes the supply and installation of 65,000 smart meters, IoT network communication and a 10-year managed service agreement. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2024

Hitachi Energy has won an order from SP Energy Networks to design and deliver an innovative power quality solution to balance the grid and boost the flow of renewable energy across the UK.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

million smart meters nationwide as part of the National Smart Metering Programme. With this the company is on track to complete the full, over 2 million, smart meter rollout in early 2025. “We We are delighted with the progress to date on the National Smart Metering Programme and achieving the milestone of 1.5

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following earlier announcements of new electricity, water and hydrogen meters another pair of new meters are launched and the US Department of Energy launches an office to focus on emerging technologies in the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As smart metering spreads worldwide, innovation in the sector is coming via new business models. Especially in developing countries that are mandating smart meter usage to improve efficiencies and combat environmental concerns, while providing a better customer experience. Smart meter development in India.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Greek DSO HEDNO (Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator) is receiving European Investment Bank support for its 3.12 million first phase smart meter rollout. A tender process is currently under way for the award of the smart meter project. Don’t miss out on the most important energy transition conversations.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Hitachi Energy has announced an investment of more than €30 million ($32 million) in the expansion and modernisation of its power transformer manufacturing facility in Bad Honnef, Germany. Expected to be complete in 2026, the project will see the facility expand to over 15,000 square meters.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2023

A new Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory will gather data on energy usage in UK homes, in order to inform future measures to reduce carbon emissions. Smart meter data – new uses under investigation in GB Unlocking smart meter data for research. Have you read? Data collection. Dynamic research.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The penetration of smart meters across Europe is expected to increase from about 60% in 2023 to 78% in 2028, Berg Insight reports. In the latest Europe smart meter review, Berg Insight reports that at the end of 2023, there were more than 186 million smart electricity meters – an increase of about 4% over 2022.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 23, 2024

The smart meter rollout for traditional prepayment customers is progressing more slowly than for standard credit customers, Ofgem believes. The letter notes that while the percentage of premises with a smart meter in Great Britain is approximately 60%, this is not the case for prepayment premises. Have you read?

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

ViriCiti, founded in 2012, makes a fleet monitoring system focused on electric buses and trucks. The company says it’s working with over 200 OEMs and fleet operators in the US and Europe, and has over 3,500 buses and chargers connected to its platform. We’re proud to help CTA monitor their electric fleet.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

GB distribution company Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has made its full smart meter half-hourly consumption datasets available as open access. These are exciting times for accessing and utilising smart meter data. Have you read? SSEN has over 1.8

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A new partnership is supplying a cybersecurity solution for smart meters as the energy industry faces the increasing threat of cyberattacks. NanoLock Security, a device-level cybersecurity provider for smart meters and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) devices, and Renesas Electronics Corp.,

Energy Monitor 111

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

Hungária Group is currently installing more than 165,000 new smart meters in Transdanubia and Pest County in west and central Hungary, including the capital Budapest. The smart meter installation forms part of a major rollout, with 650,000 smart meters installed to date. Two-thirds are operated by E.ON. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 13, 2022

has installed 5 million self-reading smart meters on its path towards meeting the national target of a full rollout by the end of 2025. Group, reports that the meters are giving customers live data on how much energy they are using and what it is costing them at any time. Germany to make smart meters mandatory?

Energy Monitor 98

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International ’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 19, 2023

Consumers can support energy security by reducing or shifting their consumption of electricity and where possible gas, Cornwall Insight advises. Currently, a large share of the energy consumed in Great Britain comes from fossil fuels imported from other countries. Have you read?

Home Energy Monitoring 52

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The survey, ‘The State of European Energy Data Maturity’, finds organisational maturity is growing but challenges centre on culture, data quality and technology. On the positive side, our study shows that energy players understand the benefits of putting data at the heart of their operations. Have you read?

Business Energy Monitoring 64

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To enhance the efficiency of monitoring and maintaining transmission power lines, AS Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST), in collaboration with forestry company AS Latvijas valsts meži (LVM), has developed a specialised module within the LVM GEO mobile app.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 10, 2024

Increase of 2% last year driven by plant expansion in China and slowdown in US and Europe closures The world’s coal power capacity grew for the first time since 2019 last year, despite warnings that coal plants need to close at a rate of at least 6% each year to avoid a climate emergency. Continue reading.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Smart energy infrastructure specialist SMS is the first meter installer to bring the device to the UK market. The UK’s first ever U16 gas smart meter has been installed at a domestic property in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, marking another milestone for the UK’s smart meter rollout. The final common variant.

Business Energy Monitoring 98

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Smart Energy International

MAY 13, 2022

Samotics, an asset health monitoring technology firm, has expanded deployment of its AI-driven SAM4 system across Northern Ireland Water’s submerged assets to support the delivery of a more cost efficient and sustainable service. SAM4 detected a developing fault in this submerged wastewater pump.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Increasing smart meter coverage within rural Scotland has been announced as part of their Government’s strategy to tackle the energy crisis. The announcement was made at an energy summit that saw Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, convene with energy companies and advice organisations.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Networked Energy Services (NES), originally part of Echelon, started its smart metering journey over 20-years ago. In 2001, NES participated in the first large-scale smart metering project with Enel in Italy, where more than 30 million smart meters were deployed. Smart meters: The new generation.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 4, 2024

Smart Energy Solutions (SMS) has begun laboratory testing of Interoperable Demand Side Response (IDSR) solutions as part of the UK Government’s Flexibility Innovation Programme. Funded by the Government’s £1 billion ($1.3 This step change in interoperability and interchangeability needs to come soon, and it won’t be simple for manufacturers.

Home Energy Monitoring 59

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Transmission and distribution network operator SP Energy Networks has opened a new low voltage (LV) support room, which leverages data from smart meters and substations to pre-emptively spot faults on the electricity network. Courtesy SP Energy Networks. LV Support room.

Energy Monitor 52

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

New electricity, water and hydrogen smart meters, DLMS and LoRa standards developments, and new studies on circularity and IoT are on the week’s technology radar. The new smart meter also is interoperable with third-party vendor solutions, allowing backward compatibility and integration with existing installations.

Energy Monitor 59

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

Italgas has reported completion of the rollout of the first 20,000 units of its new next generation hydrogen ready gas smart meter. The company has not stated where the meters have been deployed but the aim is to test the technology in the field during 2024, prior to a widescale rollout across Italy starting in 2025. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Italgas Reti has selected Italian gas meter developer MeteRSIT to design its next generation gas smart meters. The new smart meters will be based on MeteRSIT’s well established thermo-mass technology and will be hydrogen ready, able to measure not only natural gas but also blended and pure hydrogen and other gases such as biomethane.

Home Energy Monitoring 111

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2024

British business water services provider Wave has called for closer attention to issues surrounding ageing water meters. In the project, supply point IDs with three or more meter reads showing no consumption were investigated, taken from a random sample of 2,000 supply point IDs. Have you read?

Business Energy Monitoring 59

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Various evidence suggests prepayment metering in Britain is increasing, most likely due to the energy crisis and rising cost of energy bills. One of these is data on prepayment meter installations presented by the comparison website Uswitch, which was obtained from the regulator Ofgem under a freedom of information request.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use, an intelligent power solution for China’s high energy physics platform and a hydrogen-powered superyacht unveiled are in the week’s technology radar. The power system includes 138 panels of UniGear ZS1 MV switchgear, 318 panels of MNS3.0 Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees three load shifting investments take centre stage as demand response becomes a more notable priority for utilities the world over. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite.

Business Energy Monitoring 111

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hydrogen meters are under development and testing in the prospect of hydrogen blending into the gas distribution networks for supply to consumers. The reason for modifications, simply, is the different energy characteristics of hydrogen compared to natural gas. Its energy content is about only one-third that of natural gas.

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