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Smart electricity meters might have the potential to help cut power consumption and energy bills considerably … but only if customers accept them and use them as intended. Otherwise, they have the potential to end up resembling so many unused high-tech stationary bicycles, acquired with the best of intentions but rarely
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Nearly eight in 10 US consumers — 79 per cent — say in a new survey that they’re ready to make short-term changes in their energy use habits to gain longer-term benefits. Commissioned by GE, the national survey found that 72 per cent believe that, left unchanged, today’s energy sources
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Nearly a quarter-million homes in Texas are set to have smart meters installed over the next five years that will be able to measure energy usage every 15 minutes. The meters are also designed to let the region’s electricity provider eventually manage demand response and efficiency. Texas-New Mexico Power
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Every home in the UK is set to have a smart meter for tracking energy use by the end of 2020, under plans published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). “A global climate deal in Copenhagen needs all countries to make the most ambitious commitments possible,
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By the end of this year, Oncor and Landis+Gyr expect to have completed the largest and fastest deployment of smart meters ever in the US. Oncor, the owner and operator of the largest distribution and transmission system in Texas, and energy management firm Landis+Gyr have already rolled out
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ScottishPower has become the first energy company in the UK to complete installation of smarter meters across its entire service area. The £50 million project replaced 340,000 “Token” pre-payment meters with new, smarter “Key” meters throughout the company’s network area, including the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool.
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The following is a guest column by Steve Cunningham, CEO of Landis+Gyr UK: The Government’s recent Low Carbon Transition Plan and its accompanying Renewable Energy Strategy (RES) saw one issue crop up repeatedly — the necessity of modernising the electricity grid. The present system, installed shortly after the Second
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British Gas says it expects to create 2,600 new skilled jobs over the next three years as the UK moves forward with its planned nationwide rollout of smart energy meters. The announcement came as British Gas opened its new Energy Academy in Leicester, which will train the engineers of
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GE Energy technology is helping the UK Government better develop its objective to have smart meters in every home by 2020. Using GE smart meters as information collection and reporting devices, a Government-sponsored Energy Demand Research Project (EDRP) study is tracking energy use by time of day. The in-depth research
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To provide Swedish consumers with information to better manage utility costs, Gothenburg Energy has ordered and will deploy 90,000 GE smart meters. The project will meet a Swedish government mandate that requires all utilities to have an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in place by June 1 of this year.
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Following is a guest commentary by John Roberts, chairman of Remote Energy Monitoring (REM), a UK-based firm specialising in smart metering. The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) announced on Monday the Government’s plan for the universal roll out of smart energy metering for all UK homes and
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The UK will be the first country in the world to have a large-scale, nationwide overhaul for smart electricity and gas meters. Under plans published today, all homes in Britain will have smart meters installed by 2020. Smart meters enable meter readings to be taken remotely and, together with a
