Posts Tagged ‘smart metering’
GDPCR
SBGI Utility Networks provided responses to the Open letter consultation on Gas Distribution Price Control Review 2 (GDPCR2) – the way forward. Additionally, the Division has gained a seat on the stakeholder forum group that will oversee and provide input to Ofgem on key aspects of the price control reviews for Electricity and Gas Transmission and Gas Distribution.
This will help keep members informed about the reviews that will conclude in April 2013, and provide a route to get members views heard. The stakeholder forum group will meet regularly during the review to provide input to Ofgem about a range of aspects of the price control, with the first meeting having taken place on November 4th.
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Arqiva, Detica and BT have officially launched their smart metering consortium SmartReach, which offers expertise delivering national communications solutions, secure systems, data services and running Critical National Infrastructure. The end-to-end solution can be deployed rapidly, providing secure, nationwide coverage and connectivity to all households.
SmartReach proposes a communications service that incorporates high standards of security and resilience that will embrace the learning and assets of interim solutions.
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Like many in the energy industry, xoserve faces a future which will be shaped by the outcome of the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC’s) and Ofgem’s SMART Metering Implementation Programme. Xoserve provides a range of centralised services to the gas industry here in Britain.
It manages all the key data associated with the majority of the 22 million gas meter points across the country and carries out the registration and customer switching services for the industry. Xoserve also manages the energy allocation and invoicing on behalf of the country’s large Gas Transporters, and through its knowledgeable employees, based in Solihull in the West Midlands, it helps the industry manage change to the processes and systems which enable the commercial regime for gas to operate.
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SBGI Utility Networks organised its second Smart Metering workshop in April, following on from the initial event in November 2009, which again proved popular with around
forty delegates attending. Introduced by SBGI Services Manager, Gary Cottrell, the event covered useful subject matter and raised interesting debate.
David Robinson, representing both BEAMA and ESMIG, presented the Electricity industries view on Smart Metering and gave an update on ESMIG’S activities. Looking at the implications of smart in the energy industry, Dean Marshallsay, of consulting firm Artesia, reviewed the potential opportunities this raised for smart water metering.
Alan Nunn, Head of Future Business Applications & Services for BT Innovate & Design, suggested that smart metering is the beginning of a longer journey to smart homes, giving some examples of what the networked home might look like. Finally, Steve Edwards, Head of Technology and Business Development at British Gas Smart Metering, updated delegates on their Smart Metering Project and plans to deploy 2 million smart meters by the end 2012.
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