DCC

DCC begins countdown to next day switching in 2021

The Data Communications Company (DCC) has begun the countdown to delivering Ofgem's switching programme. The Central Switching Service (CSS) was initially scheduled to go live at the end of next year but it has since been pushed back to 2021.

09/07/2019

News

Pure Planet co-founder appointed director of smart campaign

Steven Day, the co-founder of app-based renewable energy supplier Pure Planet, has been appointed as a director of the national smart meter campaign Smart Energy GB.

28/06/2019

News

Smart meter rollout should ‘engage with efficiency’

The smart meter rollout should be seen as an opportunity to “engage with efficiency” as opposed to a mandated scheme, Ovo Energy’s head of data and analytics has warned.

24/05/2019

News

Consultation finds DCC runs ‘too many consultations’

The Data Communications Company (DCC) has announced a “new approach” to customer engagement following stakeholder engagement from customers and within the industry.

10/05/2019

News

Should the smart meter rollout deadline be scrapped?

Following numerous setbacks and disappointments and with the seemingly unattainable 2020 deadline for the smart meter rollout fast-approaching, Adam John asks the question: Should the smart meter rollout deadline be scrapped?

23/04/2019

Analysis

Avro Energy receives smart meter final order from Ofgem

Ofgem has issued a final order to Avro Energy meaning that from 26 May the supplier cannot take on any new customers if it is still in breach of its smart meter rollout requirements.

05/04/2019

News

Almost 14 million smart meters now operational

Almost 14 million smart and advanced smart meters were operating in British homes and businesses in the fourth quarter of 2018.

28/03/2019

News

DCC to migrate 4 million SMETS1 devices in autumn

The Data Communications Company (DCC) has announced it has signed a commercial agreement which paves the way for more than four million SMETS1 meters to be migrated onto its system from the end of September.

08/03/2019

News

Lords warn government in ‘la la land’ over smart meter target

During second reading in the House of Lords on the Smart Meters Bill, the chairman of the Lords EU energy and environment committee says the official deadline would ‘clearly’ not be met.

15/03/2018

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