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Denmark’s BB Electronics will deliver several million euros’ worth of smart meters for the European energy market this year. The company adds it expects to see a potential for more business as European Union legislation mandates the rollout of smart electricity meters to enable people to actively monitor and
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The UK’s second-largest energy supply company is preparing to roll out both smart electricity and gas meters to its customer base. Scottish and Southern Energy Supply Limited (SSE), which serves more than 10 million customers throughout Great Britain, plans to complete the first phase of its metering deployment by
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Everyone’s talking about smart electricity meters, but does anyone who hasn’t had one installed yet know what they look like? Following is a gallery of some of the latest meters being deployed by the leading smart-grid technology companies. Echelon’s NES ANSI IP smart electricity meter can be
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Elster’s AS220 electronic smart meter allows for remote service connections and disconnections, and also supports wireless communications for home-area networking (HAN) applications. Designed to meet the latest energy requirements by the European Commission, the Elster meter can accommodate up to four different energy and demand tariffs, and can even
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Itron’s OpenWay CENTRON smart electricity meter for residential use is ready to operate with third-party technologies and supports two-way communications for advanced control and configuration. It also provides wireless in-home networking so it can be integrated with smart thermostats, smart appliances and other home-area networking technologies. Among the utilities
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Landis+Gyr, recently acquired by Toshiba for $2.3 billion, offers a variety of smart meters and smart-grid technology, including the Landis+Gyr E120Gi. The company describes this meter as the “most advanced GPRS meter for the residential metering segment.” The E120Gi enables wireless communications between meter and utility, as
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A 1.8-per cent reduction in energy use might not sound like much, but extended across whole cities, regions and countries, even that small percentage adds up to huge benefits. In the US, for example, a 1.8-per cent cut in consumption could save households a little over $3 billion
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While California utility regulators and legislators continue to weigh the pros and cons of letting electricity customers opt out of smart meters, Maine’s Public Utility Commission (MPUC) has decided to require Central Maine Power (CMP) to give people the option of not having advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) installed at
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The smart-grid business world is abuzz today with the news that Japan’s Toshiba Corporation has just bought itself a much bigger profile in the sector with its $2.3 billion acquisition of Swiss metering firm Landis+Gyr. So what exactly is Toshiba getting for its investment of 2 billion
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Why are so many communities around the globe making it a priority to replace their old electricity and gas meters with newer, smarter ones? There are plenty of good reasons: 1. Because it’s not your father’s energy anymore. Today’s energy mix is far more complex than it
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It’s almost taken for granted now in most circles that smart electricity and gas meters help people reduce their energy consumption. But how much of a difference does the technology really make? Are all these costly — and sometimes controversial — metering rollouts really worth the potential payback? And how, if
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Here’s a refreshing development in the world of smart metering rollouts: a pledge by a utility to not only deploy AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) on a large scale, but to actually try and make the process as user-friendly for customers as possible. For both those actions — committing to the
