Speaking at Utility Week Live in Birmingham today (Wednesday 18 May) about the implications of the smart meter roll out, Dr Jon Kirby said: “We’ve got a time bound target we have to achieve and as I said a few months ago, the volumes we have to deliver… are fairly heroic.”
The rollout requires suppliers to offer every energy customer a smart meter by 2020 and begins full-scale this summer.
“We are talking many millions of meters… that requires a hell of a pace. The development of the evolving technology, and the systems which we are working on is equally quite scary and we are not just walking slowly towards our target, we are running at it,” Kirby added.
Eon recently announced plans to recruit 250 technicians this year in a bid to ramp up its smart meter rollout following an agreement with Morrison Utility Services which will deliver a fully managed smart meter service for the big six supplier.