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Executive Summary 2
Introduction 3
Overview Reasons for deployment
Factors driving development
The State of Play Today 5
Government policies
Standardisation efforts
Country-by-country summaries
Market Drivers 11
Benets of smart metering
Energy and infrastructure issues
The role of renewables and
electried transport
Obstacles 14
Cost issues
Standards hurdles
Public perceptions
Infrastructure development
Scalability
Privacy and security 17
Concerns Best practices
Data
Lessons
Education
Opportunities 19
Deployment and mandates
Water
Installation Networks
IT
Here and now
Partnerships
Key Inuencers in Smart metering 22
How companies stack up in Europe
Strategic partnerships
Dominant markets: Now and in the future
Analysis 30
Whats next
Lessons to be learned
Todays maturing markets
Later adopters with growth potential
Top countries to watch
Investment
Top companies to watch
Recommendations 34
Government
EU policy makers
National Local
Business
Utilities
Technology providers
Services companies
New businesses
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Executive Summary
The European smart electricity meter market stands
to expand rapidly in the coming decade, with 133 million
to 145 million new meters on track to be installed by
2020. That equates to a market of between $24 billion
and $26 billion by that time. The top countries for
this market will probably be those that havent yet
implemented smart metering on any meaningful scale:
Germany, the UK and Poland. France and Spain
are also set to make a signicant impact in the nextfew years, with announced projects already in the
early stages.
Driving the transition to smart meters are government
initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions and
improving energy efciency. The EU, for example, has set
a goal of putting smart meters in 80 per cent of households
within 10 years. That is being interpreted differently by each
European country for example, the UK is aiming for 100
per cent coverage over the same time period.
As of 2010, the current installed base of smart meters
in Europe is estimated at just under 53 million units. With
the number of EU 27 households projected to rise to 225.2
million, that leaves a very large market for smart meter
installations based on current metering goals.
If the UK reaches its target of 100 per cent coverage and
the rest of Europe achieves its 80 per cent goal, the EU27
could see a total of 186 million households with smartmeters by 2020.
Europes Smart Meter Outlook for 2020: A $25 Billion market
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The European smart metering market for electricity is
poised to take off at high speed in the next several years.In fact, if the necessary capital can be made available for
plans already in place or now in the works, the EU of 2020
will likely feature an energy infrastructure radically different
from the one it has today.
A number of factors are driving this development forward,
foremost among them, the pan-European goals of reducing
carbon dioxide emissions, improving energy efciency and
expanding renewable energy sources over the next few
decades.
Meeting those goals will pose a particular challenge
across Europe as the number of smaller households, as
well as total household energy demand, is expected to
increase between now and 2030.
Adapting to a changing energy landscape is another
driver of the transition to smart metering and, ultimately,
a fully smart grid.
As the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy
Security noted in its February 2010 report, Britain (not tomention the rest of the world) is likely to face an energy
crunch in the next ve years as global petroleum production
reaches a peak and then begins to decline. The global
economic meltdown of 2008 helped postpone that crunch
by a couple of years by depressing energy demand, the
task force found. But recovery especially in developing
nations like China and India will soon bring on increased
consumption again.
When that happens, there will be growing competition
for a dwindling oil supply. As a result, oil prices could againbegin spiking to new highs as we saw in 2008 just before
the meltdown. That will carry numerous consequences
for transport, manufacturing and agriculture, with rising
consumer prices for travel, goods and food. Smart metering
could help to blunt that impact by allowing households to
better manage home energy use and nd ways to reduce
consumption and bills.
Introduction
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Across Europe, countries are pushing to increase
homegrown energy production through large-scale wind,solar and tidal projects, as well as via microgeneration
(small-scale, household-based renewables). Managing the
intermittent nature of such energy sources not to mention
the demand burdens expected from a growing number of
electric cars will require much smarter grid technology
than is used today, with smart meters being one essential
element.
Finally, there is the matter of Europes energy
infrastructure itself, much of which is now 65-plus years
old. Whatever energy technology is prevalent in the future,a new power grid will soon be needed to replace todays
geriatric one.
Addressing all these needs will require a smarter
energy infrastructure in which measurements are moretransparent, renewables are more easily integrated into
the grid and efciency improvements are more easily
implemented by consumers themselves.
And the rst piece of this smart infrastructure puzzle will
be smart electricity meters.
Europe needs a smarter energy infrastructure in which measurementsare more transparent
Introduction
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With smart metering mandates now set for the
UK and EU, but standards yet to be determined, theEuropean marketplace for the sector is today a mix of
small, focused and relatively new organisations along
with giant, cross-industry multinationals.
On the continent, the European Commissions OPEN
meter project is working to develop a comprehensive set
of open and public standards for an advanced metering
infrastructure that can support meters for electricity, gas,
water and heat. Project participants aim to complete their
work by the end of June 2011.
As of 2010, the EU is also requiring all newly built homes
to be equipped with smart meters.
In the UK, utilities, smart metering companies and other
stakeholders were awaiting the July 1, 2010, release of
a smart metering prospectus being developed by Ofgem,
Britains oil and gas markets regulator. That document was
expected to provide more details on the planned regulatory
and commercial framework for the smart meter rollout, and
should make standards clearer for companies eyeing the UK
metering market. The UK government estimates it will cost
about 7 billion to install some 26 million smart electricity
meters, along with around 22 million smart gas meters.
The State of Play Today
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The lack of comprehensive standards until now hasnt
deterred some European utilities from conducting smartmetering trials or even mass commercial installation
programmes. Among the larger projects already completed
or under way are:
Austria
Starting in 2010, Siemens will begin installing 100,000
automated metering and information system (AMIS)
electricity meters for customers in upper Austria served
by the utility company Energie AG.
Austria-based utility EVN is evaluating different smartmetering systems in a pilot project. And the countrys
Energie Steiermark is this year launching a 400-person
smart meter trial with the goal of making all meters smart
by 2020.
Belgium In March of 2010, Belgiums Eandis announced it was
installing 4,200 smart electricity and gas meters from
Elster as part of the countrys largest integrated smart
metering pilot project.
Denmark
Denmarks SEAS-NVE plans to begin rolling out smart
meters to customers in Lolland and Falster in 2010. The
company rst ran a trial with 1,050 customers in 2006,
and expects to replace meters for all its 375,000 member
customers (it operates as a cooperative) between now
and 2011.
EnergiMidt, which serves 176,000 customers in
Denmark, is now under way with a smart meter
deployment to all 172,000 of its customers in central
Jutland. The rollout is scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Energi Fyn began the rst phase of its smart meter
upgrade in 2006. With the early stages now completed,
the utility expects to have smart meters installed for all
81,000 of its customers in 2010.
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Finland
In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic
meter reading systems although not fully smart meters
for all its electricity customers in Finland. First launched
in 2003, the rollout affected some 360,000 customers in
Finland.
Fortum, the largest utility company in Finland, is rolling
out smart meters from Echelon to 550,000 customers.
Large-scale deployment is set to get under way in 2011,
with the project expected to be completed by 2014.
Finlands Kemin Energia is installing smart electricitymeters from Landis+Gyr for 15,000 customers, with
deployment set for completion in 2014.
France ERDF, a subsidiary of the utility company EDF, is
currently working to prepare for its Linky project, which
aims to replace 35 million electricity meters in French
households with smart meters. Once completed, it would
take Enel Spas existing title for largest smart meter
rollout to date (27 million meters in Italy between 2000
and 2007). A pilot installation for the Linky project was set
to begin in March 2010 and be nished later in the year.
Germany
Germanys Technische Werke Friedrichshafen began
rolling out about 1,000 smart electricity meters, called
CleverZhler, to households in Friedrichshafen in 2009.
In Germany, EDF subsidiary EnBWs Meregio project
in Baden-Wrttemberg aims to create a model region
with minimal emissions. By 2013, it plans to have in
place an intelligent electrical supply network that links
home-based microgeneration sources of electricity with
communications and energy storage to help reduce
emissions efciently across the region. Eventually, the
network is envisioned as connecting 100,000 retail andbusiness customers.
As of 2010, the government has mandated that smart
meters must be installed in all new buildings.
Hungary E.ON Hungria Zrt., one of the countrys largest utility
rms, upgraded its industrial energy metering system by
working with Landis+Gyr. The data acquisitions systems
overhaul features more than 19,000 new meters at
various metering points.
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Ireland
Energy Minister Eamon Ryan launched the National
Smart Meter plan in 2008, with the goal of installing a
smart meter in every household within ve years. As
of January 2010, 6,500 electricity customers (5,700
households and 800 businesses) were taking part in
a smart meter trial set to run through to the end of the
year. The results of that pilot programme will be used to
determine the plan for a full-scale deployment across
the country.
Italy
Enel Spa of Italy deployed Echelon smart meters tomore than 27 million customers the largest rollout yet
between 2000 and 2005.
Malta
As part of a pilot programme, Enemalta began deploying
5,000 smart meters across Malta in 2009. Working
with IBM, the electricity and water company expects to
replace a total of 250,000 electricity meters by the end of
2012.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the utility Oxxio began rolling out
smart meters in 2005. As of March 2009, the company
had equipped more than 100,000 households with one or
two smart meters for electricity and gas 180,000-plus
meters in total. (The Dutch government had rst suggested
mandatory smart metering for the country, but has since
reversed that decision to make the rollout voluntary.)
Poland
In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic
meter reading systems although not fully smart meters
for industrial customers in Poland.
Spain
Spain In July 2009, Enel and Endesa (a utility in which
Enel acquired a 25.01 per cent stake in 2009) announced
plans to install 13 million smart meters in Spain as part of
the Cervantes project.
Sweden In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic
meter reading systems although not fully smart meters
for all its electricity customers in Sweden. Launched in
2003, the rollout affected some 900,000 customers.
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UK
The UKs First Utility became the countrys rst energycompany to begin offering free smart meters to all its
customers, starting with households in the East and
West Midlands. As of October 2009, more than 30,000
customers had signed up for the service.
In March 2010, British Gas chose Landis+Gyr to help it
roll out the countrys rst commercial-scale smart meter
deployment. The project calls for installation of up to one
million smart dual fuel electricity/gas meters. British Gas
says the meters could eventually help customers save
more than 200 million in energy costs by 2020.
OnStream, National Grids metering business, plans tolaunch a smart electricity/gas meter pilot project in 2010.
Working with utility companies npower and Scottish and
Southern Energy, OnStream expects to install some
2,000 meters during the summer.
Starting in April 2010, a government-funded year-long
trial got under way through a partnership between the
sustainability group Sustainable Blacon and home
energy management service provider AlertMe. The trial
involves 150 households: 50 will receive AlertMe energy
management systems, another 50 will use passiveenergy monitoring systems and the nal 50 will have no
energy monitoring.
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Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas)
European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas: Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas) (Oct. 2009)
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Across Europe, there is growing pressure to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions to minimise climate change.That pressure is one of the key drivers behind the push
for smart metering and, ultimately, a fully smart grid.
In the UK, for example, the Low Carbon Transition Plan
aims to cut carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020.
The plan also calls for Britain to derive 40 per cent of its
electricity from low-carbon sources by that time.
Smart metering is seen as a way to reduce energy
consumption, which is otherwise projected to keep growing
across the continent over the next two decades (althoughnot as rapidly as expected in developing countries).
Its also aimed at improving efciency, not just at the
household level, but utility-wide. For energy providers,
smart meters promise to slash uncertainties in electricity
consumption data and billing, eliminate the cost of manual
meter readings and alert utilities to problems and outages
more quickly and effectively.
(Source: Greenbang)
Market Drivers
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For consumers, Smart Meters provide
1. Greater control over energy consumption bills2. Faster, easier change in energy services and suppliers3. Greater potential for microgeneration4. Quicker (real-time) and more accurate meter readings5. The ability to shift energy use to lower-cost, off peak times
Smart metering is aimed at improving efficiency, not just at thehousehold level, but utility-wide
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An infrastructure with smart meters will also be better
able to manage the changing conditions brought by agrowing supply of intermittent, renewable energy sources
like wind and solar power. In 2008, for example, utilities
in Texas were able to keep the lights on even when low
winds reduced turbine output to near nothing because
smart demand response enabled them to automatically
and temporarily reduce energy consumption by devices
like refrigerators that dont require continuous power to
function.
Another factor driving the European smart meter market
is one noted earlier in this report: dwindling fossil fuel
production amid rising global demand.
Initiatives across Europe are launching to respond to
such concerns by reducing transports dependence on
oil and moving toward electric cars. However, that raises
the need for a more modern and resilient electrical grid,
one in which energy and data can ow both ways so cars
can charge during times of low demand or act as energy
sources at peak demand. A smart grid like that cant exist
without smart meters.
Another trend making smart meters more important is the
expansion of microgeneration small, household-basedsolar panels or wind turbines. Aiming to boost energy
security, governments are encouraging microgeneration
efforts via subsidies and feed-in tariffs. But small-scale
energy production can only be effective at the large scale if,
again, energy and data can travel both ways on the grid.
Bringing smart meters to Europes energy grid is also a
necessary part of updating an infrastructure thats well past
its prime. Both the electricity generation and distribution
systems are in need of upgrade and replacement anyway,
and smarter technologies will be vital to meet tomorrows
energy needs.
Market Drivers
Dwindling fossil fuel and increasing global demand is driving theEuropean smart meter market
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ene s expec e rom a ro ou n smar me ers
European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas: Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas) (Oct. 2009)
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Smart metering companies must use funding for further researchand development
While government and industry support for smart
metering is strong, a number of signicant hurdlesremain to be overcome before the rst chapter of the
smart grid dream becomes reality.
How to pay for the transition, in particular, is a great
concern. Ultimately, the cost of a smart meter rollout will
be borne by the customers whose households receive the
new technology although proponents insist that expense
will be easily offset by improved efciency and, ultimately,
lower energy bills. In todays early stages, though, utilities
and government agencies must dig into their own pockets
or nd funding elsewhere to support pilot projects and
larger deployments.
And smart metering companies must hope not only that
that funding is found, but that it makes it into their accounts
rather than a competitors to help pay for further
research and development.
A lack of standards and an overall framework for smart
metering and, ultimately, a smart grid, also s tands in theway. However, that could soon change if the efforts now
under way in both the UK and Europe bear fruit as hoped.
The European Commissions OPEN meter project
expects to complete a set of standards for the industry by
the end of June 2011. And Ofgem, Britains oil and gas
markets regulator, is set to release its recommendation for
smart metering even sooner: on July 1, 2010.
Such standards will likely make the path forward clearer,
but they could end up favouring some smart metering
companies technologies over others. That could lead
to some shaking up of the sector as it now stands, with
ultimate winners and losers becoming more apparent over
the next few years.
Obstacles
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ERGEG draft guidelines of good practice on regulatory aspects of smart metering
European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas:An ERGEG Public Consultation Paper on Draft Guidelines of Good Practice on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering for Electricity and Gas (June 2010)
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Another potential obstacle to a mass smart meter
deployment is resistance by end users. Companies lookingfor a piece of the European smart metering pie will need
to avoid the mistakes of earlier meter rollouts in places
such as the US, where some customers have complained
that smart meters dramatically increased, rather than
decreased, their energy bills. The risk here, if not properly
managed, goes beyond mere bad PR: some complaints in
the US have already led to lawsuits, which are certainly an
undesirable expense for any organisation.
Utility customers and some industry professionals
as well have also expressed concern about smart
meterings potential data security risks. In the Netherlands,
for example, ofcials decided not to make smart meters
mandatory after hearing objections from groups worried
about consumer privacy.
Beyond overcoming customers doubts and reservations,
utilities and metering companies will also have to educate
people about how best to take advantage of smart
meters benets. Smart metering cant achieve its goals if
households dont act on the new levels of energy-use (and
cost) intelligence they gain.
From the standpoint of smart metering companies
and utilities, the issue of scalability could also prove achallenge. Rolling out trials for 5,000 or 10,000 households
is one matter; equipping an entire continent with well
over 100 million meters in the next 10 years is an entirely
different one.
Managing a smart-metered infrastructure will also
take more advanced communication, data and control
technologies for utilities, along with ample and adequately
trained personnel to handle them. Theres also the
challenge of making the rst-stage technology from
meters to data management sufciently exible so it can
be easily and cost-effectively upgraded to support more
advanced phases of a smart grid.
And, of course, implementing a fully smart grid will take
even more investment than a smart meter rollout alone.
Obstacles
Smart metering cant achieve its goals if households dont act on thenew levels of energy-use (and cost) intelligence they gain
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European initiatives to install smart meters and,
ultimately, even more advanced smart-grid energymanagement technologies in homes and businesses
inherently raise a host of privacy and data security
concerns. For example, its clear that switching from
a system in which a human visits a home every six
months or so to read an electricity meter in person,
to a system in which an automated reading of energy
consumption is generated every 15 minutes, provides
far more information about homeowners daily habits
and whereabouts.
Such prospects have raised considerable concern
amongst consumer and privacy groups across the EU
with varying results. In the Netherlands, for instance,
authorities backed down from their initial attempts to make
smart metering mandatory after vocal pushback by some
segments of the public.
Ofcials and industry leaders say standardisation of
smart metering technology will eventually help address
and resolve some of consumers privacy and data security
issues. The establishment of best practices is also aimed at
reducing such concerns.
In its draft consultation on smart metering good
practices, for example, the European Regulators Group
for Electricity & Gas (ERGEG) recommends that outside
of a utilitys need to use consumption data for billing and
other regulated purposes access to such data must be
controlled by the customer. A similar guideline is proposedin the July 2010 smart metering prospectus released by the
UKs Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
and energy market regulator Ofgem.
Such a standard, effectively communicated to customers,
is vital in light of studies that have shown most consumers
believe they should have control over the details of their
energy usage patterns. A smart grid survey in the US
by EcoPinion, for instance, found that nearly two-thirds
of consumers said their energy consumption data belong
to them.
It is always the customer that chooses in which way
metering data shall be used and by whom, the ERGEG
advises, adding that any uses beyond regulated ones must
rst receive a customers approval. It is of the utmost
importance that the customers opinions of the smart
metering system are positive, and not a source of anxiety.
Thats an objective that some early implementers of
smart meters have fallen down on in the past. In the US,
for instance, Pacic Gas & Electrics smart meter rollout
led to widespread customer uproar that continues to have
negative repercussions for the company. European utilities
would be wise to pay heed to such previous experiences
and avoid repeating them.
Privacy and security issues
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The lesson to be learned is that implementation of smart
metering is more than a technical/technological issue itsalso one that requires proper customer education, public
relations and genuine two-way dialogue.
Such a lesson will prove particularly important in energy
markets such as the UK, where customers are free to
switch from one provider to another. Utilities that prove
less than effective in their smart metering campaigns could
ultimately see those failings reected in dwindling bottom
lines, while more savvy providers will have the opportunity
to gain market share.
The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate
Change has said that utilities should also dene security
controls for each element within their systems including
smart meters with the exchange of information from one
element to another guided by proper risk assessments,
company policies and legal requirements.
Utilities implementing consumer technologies, offerings
and services within a smart grids environment that fails to
address these issues will encounter consumer and political
opposition, restricting their ability to realise the economic
promise of smart grids technologies, stated the forums
December 2009 Technology Action Plan on smart grids.
They may face angry regulators and customers as well as
liability issues.
The Technology Action Plan adds, Consumer-based
smart grids technologies put privacy interests at riskbecause a core purpose is to collect information related to
a particular household or business. Meters already collect
a unique meter identier, timestamp, usage data and time
synchronisation every 15 to 60 minutes. Soon, they will
also collect outage, voltage, phase and f requency data, and
detailed status and diagnostic information from networked
sensors and smart appliances. These data show directly
whether people were present, when they were present, and
what they were doing.
In many ways, the privacy and security issues arising
with the rollout of smart meters are similar to those that
appeared with earlier technologies such as the internet and
mobile phones. As with these technologies, smart metering
is also likely to eventually be comfortably accepted by
consumers. However, it bears repeating that utilities and
smart metering companies can do much to speed that
acceptance along through proper communication and
implementation programmes.
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The widening rollout of smart meters across
Europe over the next 10 years presents a variety ofinvestment opportunities. In fact, the opportunities
extend well beyond smart metering technologies
themselves into many other spaces, both product
- and service-oriented.
One unique aspect of the investment potential in the
smart metering space is that the technology is not only
expected to be widely deployed across the EU, but in many
regions is mandated to be. The breadth of that deployment
80 to 100 per cent of households also distinguishes the
smart meter market from many other cleantech initiatives
that might be far more narrowly implemented (think a few
hundred wind turbines at most at any particular site). While
the meters themselves might be small, their impact overall
will be mighty.
Its worth noting that the rms that take the lead in
Europes rollout of smart meters also stand to extend their
reach as various markets move on to implement smart
gas and smart water meters. The latter could prove an
especially promising market, as after energy water
is likely to be the next key resource in need of careful
management and control across the continent.
The installation alone of smart meters represents a large
service market as deployments take place in the differentEuropean nations. After that, the market for maintenance
services and upgrade management as new applications
become available is also likely to grow ... another
investment opportunity.
Furthermore, the smart metering market is unique
because it is not a standalone sector but an integral
element of the eventual smart grid connecting millions of
networked homes and smart appliances. In that regard,
smart meters are not simply a one-time investment but
a long-term piece of the smart grid puzzle that will be in
continual need of upgrading, renement, maintenance and
eventually replacement.
In addition, a whole suite of services will be needed
to manage the communications technologies and vast
quantities of data that will be part of any smart-metered
region. That opens up additional investment opportunities
for ICT rms, software management companies and other
services and consultancy providers.
Opportunities
Smart meters are not simply a one-time investment but a long-termpiece of the smart grid puzzle
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As Europe builds out its smart meter and smart grid
infrastructure, the market opportunities for keepingthat infrastructure up and running not to mention
continually upgraded are also likely to stay strong.
Its hard to imagine, except under the most exceptional
of circumstances, the technologies being switched off or
abandoned once they are in place. In this respect, smart
meters are a far less speculative than, say, carbon capture
and storage projects or algae-based biofuels, which are
many years away from commercial development.
So, beyond the metering rms themselves, the ongoing
rollouts of smart meters across Europe will open up
investment opportunities for a whole host of related
products and services. These could include:
Hardware and software developers
Networking services and technology providers
Value-added resellers
Silicon chip companies
IT and systems integrators
Energy efciency solutions providers
Research, development and engineering rms
Utilities
A glimpse at the list of partners for many smart metering
companies gives an indication of the investment marketpotential:
Accenture (management consultancy partnering
with Itron)
British Gas (Landis+Gyr UK utility partner)
Disenco (Sentec partner specialising in micro-combined
heat and power systems)
Diversied Power Solutions (Echelon partner specialising
in energy efciency)
Eandis (Elster Belgium utility partner)
Helen Electricity Network
(Landis+Gyr Finnish utility partner)
Integr8 (Itron UK renewable energy company partner)
Logica (IT software and systems integrator partnering
with Itron)
Magyar Telekom (telco partner of AlertMe)
OnStream (National Grid metering company and
Sentec partner)
SAP AG (Landis+Gyr business software partner)
Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Landis+Gyr IT
solutions and services partner)
Opportunities
Smart meters will open up investment opportunities for a whole hostof related products and services
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Stark Software (data collection software partner
of Iskraemeco) StreamServe (sofware applications provider partnering
with Itron)
TEC Systems (Echelon partner and systems integrator)
T-Hrvatski Telekom (telco partner of AlertMe)
Unitronics (Echelon partner specialising in the IT and
communications market)
Opportunities
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A number of companies are inuencing the ideas
behind smart grid in Europe and how technologyshould be adopted. Several have taken a particularly
prominent position through their involvement
with some of the more extensive smart metering
implementations that have already occurred in
countries like Italy and France.
Echelon, for example, worked with Enel Spa on the
largest metering rollout to date: 27 million units installed in
Italy between 2000 and 2005. (And Enel is now planning to
deploy another 13 million smart meters in Spain.)
And then theres Landis+Gyr, which enjoys wide
recognition in the utility markets in the US and is rapidly
expanding its reach in Europe. It s taken the lead in helping
to create a new smart metering industry association to
advance interoperability standards and recently partnered
with the giant Siemens to launch an integrated, end-to-
end smart metering offering. Landis+Gyr is also part of a
consortium set to work with EDF/ERDF on a 35-million-
meter project launching in France.
Sentec, meanwhile, is keenly focused on the UK as
the country prepares for its massive launch into smartmetering. It has the advantage of being based in the UK,
as well as having a working partnership with National Grid,
one of the nations largest utilities.
Company proles
Listed below are proles of the smart grid-focused
companies that have already established a leading foothold
in parts of Europe, along with emerging rms that are likely
to capitalise on planned rollouts across the EU27.
They are ranked according to the breadth and depth
of their Europe-focused partnerships, with the top 10
inuencers in the sector being:
1. Echelon
2. Landis+Gyr
3. Itron
4. Iskraemeco
5. Sentec
6. OnStream
7. Tendril
8. Silver Spring Networks
9. Elster
10. AlertMe.
Key inuencers of the smart metering market
Extensive smart metering implementations have already occurred incountries like Italy and France
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1. Echelon
While its headquartered in San Jose, California,
Echelon is exerting considerable inuence on the
European smart metering market. One of its key
achievements to date was helping Enel Spa of Italy
roll out smart meters to more than 27 million of the
utilitys customers between 2000 and 2005 the largest
deployment of smart meters yet.
Outside of the US, Echelon markets its Networked Energy
Services (NES) system primarily through value-added
resellers (VARs) such as E.ON ES in Sweden. Other energy
companies that Echelon has worked with includeSEAS-NVE, Energi Midt and NRGi (Denmark); Vattenfall
and E.ON (Sweden); Linz (Austria); and Fortum (Finland).
Over the past three years, the majority of Echelons
revenue has come from six key customers: utilities EBV
Electronik GmbH, Enel Spa and Duke Energy; and VARs
Eltel Networks, Telvent Energia Y Medioambiente and ES
Elektrosandberg. The partnership with Eltel generated a full
quarter of Echelons revenue in 2009.
On its own or through its VARs, Echelon is currently
working with more than 100 utility rms on pilot metering
projects or deployments around the world. Globally, the
company has so far distributed more than 2 million NES
smart meters, and its technology underlies the 27 million
smart meters deployed across I taly.
Contact details
Postal Address: Echelon Corporation,
550 Meridian Avenue, San Jose
CA 95126, USA
Telephone Number: 408 938 5200
Email: [email protected]
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2. Landis+Gyr
Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Landis+Gyr
operates in 30-plus countries. It shipped its 2 millionth
FOCUS AX smart meter late in 2009.
Landis+Gyr has partnered with a consortium working
with EDF/ERDF to deploy project Linky, which aims to
roll out 35 million smart meters in households across
France between 2012 and 2017. The project would be the
largest smart metering deployment in the world to date.
(Other members of the consortium, which is managed by
Atos Origin, include Actaris (Itron) and Iskraemeco.) The
company also recently announced it would work with BritishGas to deploy the rst commercial-scale smart meter
deployment in the UK.
Having widely deployed meters on both sides of the
pond, Landis +Gyr enjoys solid name recognition in the
utility sector. Its also taken on the role of an industry
leader by joining with fellow smart metering rms
Iskraemeco and Itron to form the Interoperable Device
Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association. The
organisations aim is to promote open standards and
specications to make interoperability a reality in the smart
metering industry.
The company has moved aggressively this year, rolling
out a new end-to-end smart metering solution with the giant
Siemens IT Solutions and Services. And in late June, it alsoannounced it had signed an agreement with the Finnish
utility Helen Electricity Network to deploy 200,000 smart
meters and metering services in that country.
Landis+Gyr is earning a high prole in the UK, where it
recently announced it would provide up to one million smart
electricity/gas meters as part of British Gas/Centricas
rst commercial-scale smart metering deployment in that
country.
Other key partners include SAP AG, Cisco, Microsoft
(Microsoft Hohm), Vattenfall Lmp, Tendril, Kemin Energia
and E.ON Hungria Zrt.
Contact details
Postal Address: Landis+Gyr AG, Feldstrasse 1,
CH-6301 Zug
Telephone Number: +41(0)41 935 6000
Email: [email protected]
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3. Itron
Based in Liberty Lake, Washington, Itron has a
second headquarters in Luxembourg, where it operates
under the name Actaris. It provides smart metering,
data collection and software for more than 8,000
utilities delivering energy and water services around
the globe. So far, it has deployed more than three
million pay-as-you-go smart meters in the UK.
Together with Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco, Itron is one of
the founding members of the Interoperable Device Interface
Specications (IDIS) Industry Association. Its also working
with the same two partners in an Atos Origin-managedconsortium to help EDF/ERDF roll out 35 million smart
meters in France.
Itron also has active working relationships with Iberdrola,
Eandis, Elster, Ambient, Cisco, GE, Trilliant and Tendril.
Contact details
Postal Address: 2111 N Molter Road, Liberty Lake,
WA 99019, USA
Telephone Number: (509) 924 9900
Email: [email protected]
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4. Iskraemeco
Slovenia-based Iskraemeco, founded in 1945, serves
a global market and distributes devices for measuring
electricity, gas, heat and water. Its mission is to
enable utilities and industry to improve performance
while lowering environmental impact. It currently has
metering devices in more than 100 countries.
In May 2010, Iskraemeco began operating a new
manufacturing facility in Sarajevo thats expected to
produce around 50,000 smart meters a year. The utility
rm Elektroprivjeda BiH plans to roll out those meters to its
700,000 customers over the next 10 years.
Iskraemeco has also taken the lead in working with both
Landis+Gyr and Itron (Actaris) to launch the Interoperable
Device Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association
and plan for a mass rollout of smart meters in France.
5. Sentec
Founded in 1997 and based in Cambridge in the
UK, Sentec is a technology consulting rm that
develops products for the smart metering and energy
management industries. It has licensed meter designs
for electricity, gas and water measurement.
So far, the company claims to have ve million of its
meter designs most of them smart electricity meters
in operation. Sentec has served markets in the UK,
North America and Asia, and has seen rapid growth in its
business over the past two years, with turnover increasing
by 150 per cent.
Most recently, Sentec has partnered with OnStream
(National Grid) to together develop a custom smart
electricity meter designed specically for the UK market.
The two companies plan to launch a trial of the meters in
the summer of 2010, and aim to gain the business of at
least some of the other big six utilities in the UK (with the
exception of British Gas, which has already hooked up
with Landis+Gyr). Other Sentec partners include Onzo,
Polysolar and Sensus Metering.
Contact details
Postal Address: Stanton House, 49-51 Stanton Road,
Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 5FW
Telephone No: +44 (0) 1159 445544
Email: [email protected]
Contact details
Postal Address: 5 The Westbrook Centre, Milton Road,Cambridge, CB4 1YG
Telephone No: +44 1223 303800
Email: [email protected]
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6. OnStream (National Grid)
OnStream, National Grids metering business,
installs, maintains and/or provides readings for around
20 million household, business and industrial meters
in the UK.
Its developed a dual-fuel smart metering system to
measure both electricity and gas consumption, and has
installed around 27,000 such meters so far.
OnStream has a long-term contract with British Gas, and
is trialing smart meters with both npower and Scottish and
Southern Energy. It has also partnered with smart meteringrm Sentec to develop a meter specially developed for the
UK market.
7. Tendril
Based in Boulder, Colorado, Tendril provides
products and applications for two-way communication
between utility companies and their customers.
The companys suite of offerings includes in-home
energy monitoring displays, smart thermostats, load control
switches for supply and demand management and IP
gateway devices for data delivery.
Tendril has partnerships with many smart grid-focused
organisations, including Elster, GE, Itron, Landis+Gyr,
Silver Spring Networks, IBM, the CURRENT Group, Intel,Accenture, Capgemini and Navigant Consulting.
Contact details
Postal Address: OnStream, 35 Homer Road, Solihull,
West Midlands, B91 3QJ
Telephone No: 0845 757 3212
Email: [email protected]
Contact details
Postal Address: 5395 Pearl Parkway, Suite 100,
Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Telephone No: 303-951-4360
Email: [email protected]
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8. Silver Spring Networks
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Silver
Spring Networks is a smart grid-focused company
that works to help utilities improve efciency, reduce
emissions and enable customers to monitor and
manage their energy usage.
It provides utilities with both hardware and software,
as well as the services needed to deploy smart energy
management offerings.
Silver Spring has worked with a number of utility
companies, including Pacic Gas & Electric, Florida Power& Light, Pepco Holdings, Jemena Electricity Networks
and United Energy Distribution. Its also partnered with
Landis+Gyr, GE Energy, Itron, Elster, Tendril, Cisco, Onzo,
eMeter, GridPoint, Oracle and Invensys.
9. Elster Group
Based in Germany, the Elster Group lays claim to
one of the most extensive installed meter bases in
the world. It says it has deployed 200 million-plus
metering devices globally over the past 10 years.
Recent company acquisitions have helped to boost
Elsters prole in the European metering market.
EnergyICT, a Belgian-based company acquired by
the Elster Group in 2009, is currently working with the
Belgian electricity and gas utility Eandis on a 4,200-unit
smart meter rollout thats one of the countrys largest
pilots to date.
The Elster Group also provides meters for water utilities,
and acquired the SmartMeter and Ajusta businesses f rom
the UKs Severn Trent Services in 2009. It operates testing
facilities in France, the UK, Spain, Germany, Slovakia,
Benelux and Turkey, among others.
Contact details
Postal Address: Silver Spring Networks,555 Broadway Street, Redwood City,
CA 94063
Telephone No: 650-298-4200Email: [email protected]
Contact details
Postal Address: 130 Camford Way, Sundon Park, Luton,
Bedfordshire, LU3 3AN, UKTelephone No: +44 (0)1582 846400
Email: [email protected]
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10. AlertMe
Based in Cambridge in the UK, AlertMe provides a
variety of home energy management products and
services, including meter readers, smart plugs and
online/mobile energy monitoring services.
It also enables online management of home heating
and security.
Founded in 2006, AlertMe markets its products and
services directly to consumers and through partnerships
with telcos and other service providers. It has teamed
up with organisations as diverse as Google PowerMeter,British Gas, Magyar Telekom of Hungary and T-Hrvatski
Telekom of Croatia.
11. GE
With its headquarters in Faireld, Connecticut, global
technology, nance and media giant GE is developing
a variety of smart grid-enabling technologies as part of
its ecomagination initiative, which aims to solve the
worlds biggest environmental challenges while driving
protable growth for GE.
Among the leading organisations participating in
ecomaginations advisory board are Climate Change
Capital, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Khosla
Ventures, World Resources Institute, Ceres, University
College London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand Google.
In April of 2010, GE opened a new Smart Grid
Technology Centre of Excellence in Atlanta, Georgia. The
centre is partnering with the Georgia Institute of Technology
to develop and test new smart-grid technologies
for improved energy efciency, renewable energy
management and consumer control of power usage.
Contact details
Postal Address: AlertMe.com Ltd, Compass House,
80 Newmarket Road, Cambridge,CB5 8DZ
Telephone No: +44 (0)1223 222150
Email: [email protected]
Contact details
Postal Address: GE Energy, No2, The Arena,Downshire Way, Bracknell, Berkshire,
RG12 1PU, UK
Telephone No: +44 (0)1344 460500
Email: tbc
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12. Sentilla
Based in Redwood City, California, with ofces
in Reading, UK, Sentilla provides a platform for
demand-side energy management in data centres and
commercial and industrial facilities. The platform tracks
and analyses energy consumption in real time using a
web-based interface.
Sentilla has partnered with a number of companies to
develop and distribute its energy-management products,
including IBM, Cisco, SAP, Sun Microsystem and various
reseller partners.
13. Oxxio
Based in the Netherlands, Oxxio buys electricity and
natural gas from energy wholesalers and resells those
services to more than 600,000 customers. It started up
its smart metering business to boost its service offerings
and to gain independent and more detailed access to data
about its customers energy consumption. The company
also expects to begin producing its own energy in 2010
with a new power plant in Rotterdam.
Oxxio based its automated meter management system
on the one developed by Enel Spa in Italy, and enlisted IBM
to develop and operate the metering and data-managementinfrastructure.
Contact details
Postal Address: 400 Thames Valley Park Drive,
Reading, RG6 1PT, UK
Telephone No: +44 (0) 118 963 7780
Email: [email protected]
Contact details
Postal Address: Marathon 5, Hilversum, Noord Holland,
1213 PC Netherlands
Telephone No: +31 (0)356 265800
Email: tbc
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The next two to three years will be critical ones for
the smart metering sector for several reasons
Firstly, they will nally see denitive standards and
frameworks for the industry released by both the UK and
the rest of the EU. Secondly, those standards could exert
a signicant impact on which metering rms come out on
top. And, thirdly, to meet their goals of 100 per cent and
80 per cent smart meter coverage by 2020, Britain and the
remainder of Europe respectively will need to begin the
process for massive deployments shortly.
Enel Spas experiences with its large-scale rollout in Italy
will provide instructive lessons for the future, as will ERDFs
move forward with its planned installation of 35 million
meters in France by 2017. Enel Spa and Endesa have also
begun planning a 13-million-meter rollout in Spain.
Such plans indicate Italy, in particular, but also France
and Spain are maturing markets for smart meters or will
be in the near future. Finland, Denmark and Sweden are
also well on their way toward implementing next-generation
metering, meaning smart meter and smart grid companies
will soon have to focus on growth in other regions that
today remain behind the pack.
Thats where the opportunities will be, if those remaining
European countries hope to meet the EU goal of 80 percent smart meter penetration by 2020.
As the overview table of smart metering rollouts across
Europe indicates, those countries include Austria, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK,
Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and
the Slovak Republic. However, as noted previously, EDF/
ERDF has plans to deploy 35 million meters across France
between 2012 and 2017.
Three of the remaining potential markets are also among
Europes most populous, suggesting they are due to have
an outsized impact on the smart meter market over the
next 10 years, They include: Germany, with 38.9 million
households as of 2010; the UK, with 27 million households;
and Poland, with 14.7 million households. With minimal
smart metering coverage so far, these three nations could
if they aim to achieve EU efciency targets comprise
more than half of the new smart meter market.
Analysis
Massive smart meter deployments required to meet the UK goal of100% coverage by 2020
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With its goal of 100 per cent smart metering by
2020, the UK is poised to make the next big splash inimplementation. With the recent DECC-Ofgem release of a
prospectus outlining proposed frameworks for the industry,
smart meter companies now have a clearer path forward.
After that, the UK should expect to see metering pilots and
rollouts begin to accelerate across the country.
Germany will then probably be the next large market to
appear in the industrys cross-hairs. Although less than 1
per cent of all electricity meters in the country were smart
as of 2008, more advanced metering is now required for
all new construction. Furthermore, Germany is already a
leader in renewables development and efforts to integrate
electricity-based transport into the national grid. Smart
metering will be a necessary addition to such a system
sooner or later.
In addition, green and efciency-minded Germans
indicate theyre ready to see smart meters in their homes.
A survey of more than 1,000 utility customers in early 2010
found that eight out of 10 see smart metering as a way to
reduce energy bills and manage appliances to run when
electricity costs are lowest.
While most of the top German utilities are already testing
some smart meters, though, their customers appear tobe waiting to see more incentives for adoption, whether
through better communication of benets, low-cost or free
smart meters and clearer price differences between
peak and off-peak consumption.
Poland will probably be the last of the three populous
late adopters to take the smart meter plunge. However,
one of the countrys largest energy companies (Polska
Grupa Energetyczna) is now conducting a pilot rollout of
some 800,000 smart meters in Warsaw nearly one-sixth
of its total customer base. And plans now under way to
privatise the energy sector will also likely clear the way for
accelerated investment in smart metering.
The success of metering goals will also depend on
the effectiveness of industry-wide efforts to promote
interoperability, scalability and exibility. All these will be
vital for ensuring the technologies deployed over the
next several years can be easily and cost-effectively
upgraded to deliver more advanced smart grid applications
in the future.
Analysis
Success of metering goals depends on the effectiveness of industry-wide efforts to promote interoperability, scalability and flexibility
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New organisations such as the Interoperable Device
Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association recentlyestablished by metering rms Landis+Gyr, Iskraemeco and
Itron will play an important role in this regard.
While the mechanisms for paying for the widespread
rollout of smart meters across Europe remain to be
nalised, consumers are expected to ultimately foot a large
balance of the bill.
The key for winning their acceptance of this fact will lie
with utilities and smart metering rms effectively conveying
the message that smart metering will over the long term
save households money especially as energy and
carbon prices rise over time.
In the meantime, both the European Commission and
UK government are making signicant investments in
smart metering research, development and pilot projects.
Europes Electricity Grid Initiative, for example, budgets
1.9 billion for such activities between 2010 and 2018,
although just a portion of that is directed specically at
smart meters.
The UKs Ofgem has also established a Low Carbon
Networks Fund of up to 500 million to support electricitydistributors test new technologies, including demand-side
management and smart metering.
Projects selected for funding are scheduled to be
announced in December of 2010.
Venture capital will also continue to play a large role,
as many investors see smart meters as a key efciency
technology with a solid and short-term potential for returns
on investment. In just six months time (between November
2009 and April 2010), for example, smart metering rm
Landis+Gyr successfully raised $265 million in capital to
help pay for its ongoing growth and operations.
Utilities, too, are investing with an eye toward not-too-
long-term paybacks. Consider OnStream (National Grid),
which over the past three years has invested 384 million
to build its metering business.
Analysis
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The planned continent-wide rollout of smart meters over
the coming decade will probably lead to some shakeout inthe sector, with clear winners likely to emerge over the next
few years. However, smart metering rms with lottery-
winning technology interoperable, scalable and exible
enough to accommodate future smart-grid upgrades can
expect signicant market opportunities as the EU moves
forward to achieve its 2020 goals.
That market could include as many as 133 million to
145 million smart electricity meter installations.
With major initiatives already completed in Italy, and
now getting under way in France and Spain, the next key
markets will probably be the UK, Germany and Poland,
in that order. Both Germany and the UK, in particular,
have made smart metering a key element of their carbon
reduction goals and the fact that they are now playing
catch-up with early adopters like Italy and the Nordic
countries makes them both poised to dominate the smart-
meter market over the next 10 years.
Several smart meter companies appear most likely
to capitalize on this coming growth: Echelon, which hasalready established itself as a huge player through its work
with Enel Spa in Italy; Landis+Gyr, which along with Atos
Origin, Actaris and Iskraemeco are set to launch the
mass rollout of smart meters in France; and Sentec, which
has its foot in the door with National Grid/OnStream in the
UK market. In particular, its likely that Sentec will switch
into high gear once Ofgem gives its direction for the UK
smart metering rollout.
It should also probably come as no surprise that these
three companies Echelon, Landis+Gyr and Sentec
are also performing relatively well in the market right now,
despite ongoing economic challenges. Over the past year,
Landis+Gyr has raised some $250 million in funding to
support company growth and project development, while
Sentec has more than doubled its turnover over the past
two years. And, although Echelon reported a decline in
revenues in 2009 compared to 2008, it has recently inked
some strong new partnerships, in particular, a long-term
agreement with Duke Energy, the third-largest electric utility
in the US.
Analysis
The market could include as many as 133 million to 145 millionsmart electricity meter installations.
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Government
EU: Act as a central clearinghouse for information on
standards and projects for all stakeholders (countries,
local governments, utilities, tech rms, service providers,
new businesses and consumers)
National: Communicate and coordinate with utilities,
consumers and other stakeholders for consistency and
clarity on rollouts
Local: Engage both utilities and consumers, along
with any other relevant stakeholders, to ensure local
transparency and community involvement
Business Utilities: Pay heed to the mistakes made by other
utilities in earlier rollouts and take the steps necessary to
leapfrog them; involve and communicate with consumers
from the start; launch active education campaigns that
are transparent about potential consumer concerns such
as data security
Tech companies: Keep technologies scaleable and
upgradeable; participate in standards initiatives
Service providers: Communicate with utilities and
consumers to address evolving service needs and
develop new services to meet changing demands New businesses: Keep abreast of ongoing projects and
developments with an eye toward new business product/
service opportunities; communicate with stakeholders to
assess evolving needs
Recommendations
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AlertMe
AlertMe
AlertMe:AlertMe now available in Croatia through T-Hrvatski Telekom
AlertMe:AlertMe now available In Hungary through Magyar Telekom
British Gas
Center for International RelationsSmart Grid Development in Poland (pdf)
Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)Appraisal of Costs & Benefits of Smart Meter Roll
Out Options (pdf)
Dong Energy2009 Annual Report
EandisEandis signs contract to supply smart energy meters
(pdf, Dutch only)
Echelon
EDF
Environment - Climate ChangeEDFManaging Energy Demand
The Elster Group
eMeterGermany -- Like Others -- Want Smart Meters
EnBW AGAnnual Report 2009: The smart grid
Enel
Enemalta
Energie SteiermarkBig turnout on Smart electricity meters: 400 customers
searched for test (German only)
Energy Regulatory OfceTowards Smart Grid in Poland
Energy Regulatory OfceConsumers Educational Programs as the Key Factor of
Smart Grid Development
Energy.euAlcatel-Lucent and Deutsche Telekom Launch Web User
Interface for Smart Metering Trial in T-City Friedrichshafen
Energy.eu
Key elements of the Internal Energy Market Package as
proposed by the Commission on 19 September 2007 (pdf)
Energy.euGas and electricity market statistics (pdf)
References
Please note:
References in this
section have live
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A European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitiveand Secure Energy:
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Energy.euEuropean Energy and Transport
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European Energy Regulators
European Environment Agency
About household consumption
EurostatElectricity consumption of households
EurostatNumber of households
Fast CompanyGermanys Got Tweeting Smart Meters
Federation of German Consumer OrganisationsSmart Metering Abstract (pdf)
First Utility
Leading the way with smart meters in the UK
FortumFortum invests EUR 170 million in automatic meter
management in Finland
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energyand Energy System Technology
GE
IBM
IBM PolandIBM Poland and WINUEL Develop the First Polish Smart
Metering Software Package
Iskraemeco
Itron
Landis+Gyr
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Vattenfall creates central Europes largest GPRS-basedmeter data reading system
MeRegio: Smart Grids
National Grid
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nrc handelsblad
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ODYSSEE MURE
Energy Efficiency Trends and Policies in the Household &Tertiary sectors in the EU 27 (pdf)
Ofgem
OnStream
Open Gateway Energy Management Alliance (OGEMA)
OPEN Meter
Oxxio
Prask energetika Group (PRE)
About us
Sentec
Sentilla
Siemens
Sustainable Buildings - Smart Meters
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