Before 2019 England plan all family install energy meter

England energy and climatic change dept. announced that before 2019 they will plan to install 53,000,000pcs smart meter for 30,000,000 houses and office building. The population of England is about 60,000,000, 23,000,000 family, this imagine is for almost all of house and office building install kwh meter.

The energy meter in project is inform electricity and gas user, electricity and gas supplier or operate power grid and network operator electric quantity and gas quantity real time. It is equipped as required control electric quantity and gas quantity, or reduce electric charge, gas charge and C02 discharge quantity function. Smart meter is structure indispensable instrument of a new power grid “smart grid”.

The project of DECC divide to 2 stages. The first stage is preparation, about two years and half after April,2011, for target of specific user and enterprise process electronic meter etc. equipment and test run of network. Besides, it will establish the company take charge of data management and communication. The second stage: formal install kwh meter. The specific plan: from 2014 year begin to install, and 2019 year finish all installation.

DECC express: after install energy meter for user family, it can save 23 sterling electric charge annually. To electric supplier, it still more accurately to user collect electric charge, such as accept user complaint call center charge will reduce, thus as a whole reduce cost and improve service quality. As DECC recommend, for manage power grid operator, it obtain more information to realize exact operate management, it realize the goal of smart power grid forward one step.

DECC from interim of 2007 begin to boost total 50 thousand families participate in smart meter .

demonstration test. In the beginning of 2011 stats laboratory result, announce this project to lay the foundation. DECC announced the project that all family install kwh meter in 2009, only temporal target is until 2020 year-end finish installation.