Posts Tagged ‘smart meters’
Plans for Britain’s biggest ‘smart-grid project’ have been unveiled. The project will involve 14,000 homes and businesses, test the impact of new low carbon technologies such as electric cars and solar panels on the electricity grid and extend the learnings to whole of the UK using data from over 160,000 smart meters.
The project, a partnership between CE Electric UK, British Gas, Durham University and EA Technology, will focus primarily on the North East and Yorkshire and won funding from Ofgem in November.
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British Gas has announced plans to accelerate the roll-out of its smart meter programme and install two million smart meters in customers’ homes by 2012. This will allow households to take early advantage of smart meter technology – including real time, on-screen information. British Gas has brought together six worldleading companies to assemble its smart meter system.
The partner companies include Vodafone; SAP; OSIsoft and Trilliant; and global smart meter manufacturer, Landis+Gyr. The Zigbee Smart Energy global wireless home area network standard will be used to link up the in-home devices.
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