Government has launched a new smart meter framework which aims to boost the rollout. So, what's next for suppliers as they ramp up the delivery programme?
Energy UK has proposed a series of measures to aid the smart meter rollout. The trade body has also warned that the 2024 deadline as it stands is not achievable.
One of the UK's largest smart meter installers has said the government's decision is a long overdue recognition of a situation that had already been accepted by the sector.
The government has announced the smart meter rollout deadline has been extended from 2020 to 2024. There have been ongoing concerns from within the industry that the 2020 deadline was all but impossible.
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.
Only 35 per cent of people own a smart meter, the latest Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) public attitudes tracker has found.
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?
SSE's domestic retail business SSE Energy Services missed its gas smart meter installation target last year and will pay out £700,000 to Ofgem's consumer redress fund to make amends.
Research commissioned by consumer group Which? has found more than half of people are having issues with interoperability with their smart meter when they switch supplier.