Smart Metering is FCUKED Nick Hunn WiFore Consulting nick@wifore.com +44 7768 890 148 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. This allows you to copy, distribute and display the contents of this paper, or make derivative works. Acknowledgement of the author is appreciated. The Fiendishly Complicated United Kingdom Enduring Deployment […]
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Letter to Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy
Summary: Issue 1 – in the I&C (Industrial and Commercial) gas supply market, gas meters are being changed out totally unnecessary to change from one owner, National Grid Metering to ANother MAM (Meter Asset Manager) simply because of a loop hole left by OFGEM in gas meter competition arrangements. This will be costing the consumer […]
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Companies like meteringtech.com have “self learning” software (ours is called TRACKER analysis module of DYNAMAT) that will self learn a profile of consumption from high frequency interval data (AMR) and continuously compares current consumption with the self learned target, alarming if excessive consumption is detected. We can home in on the “night line” hours as […]
Read MoreReal Time Home Energy Monitoring using low cost clip on meters – the Smart alternative to Smart Meters
Set out below are some of features of the Real Time monitoring that we are doing with the new breed of low cost clip on meters – we are working with the Current Cost meters but the principle applies to many of these meters. Current Cost meters costing ~£45-60. We currently have a free application […]
Read MoreSmart metering energy display device for schools
Dear Dave You have been trying to contact me via claverton. The product you need from us is the Cube.i.p which is currently being completed in it’s latest version and will provide accurate voltage measurement, power factor real time measurement. Any kind of measurement and analysis you want in fact, and any graphing you want […]
Read MoreSmart Metering Implementation Prospectus – The Transition – notes from an energy metering professional
1. CAPACITY IN WHICH I (Colin Boughton Smith) AM RESPONDING AND BACKGROUND I am the Managing Director of Energy Metering Technology Ltd (EMT), and am responding due to my passionate believe that automatic meter reading, and the awareness it brings to the consumer, is fundamental to achieve utility resource use efficiency. I have […]
Read More" Are Smart Meters Really That Smart?" who really benefits from smart metering?
On 3 October 2010 10:12, David Hirst .com <david@davidhirst.com> wrote: Good information is a Good Thing. Nobody doubts that, for some people and organisations, improved information about their electricity (and even gas and water) consumption and its costs could provoke some behaviour change, or trigger energy saving investments. Indeed, current UK laws assume this is […]
Read MoreSmart Meters — Smart Savings or Smart Profits ? Are the Costs & Benefits Fairly Apportioned ?
Wednesday 29 September 2010, Energy Institute, London The implementation of Smart Meters in the UK has major implications for business and the public sector. DECC/Ofgem E-Serve are working through activities and consultations with the aim of defining the implementation programme; a programme that will shape the type and scope of services for energy and carbon […]
Read MoreESTA – Campaign to save the meter pulse output for Automatic Meter Reading AMR
Circulated to all ESTA MembersMonday 5 July 2010 We are alerting you to a situation that may have a direct affect now on your data collection and BEMS systems. Metering, automatic meter reading systems and aM&T have been recognised by Government as key to energy and carbon management e.g. roll out of smart/advanced […]
Read MoreA manufacturer claims "the pulsed meter output facility is an essential part of meter technology and should be preserved, not blocked as OFGEM is permitting the Energy Companies to do".
CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE PULSED OUTPUT METER FOR THE SAKE OF UK PLC Summary: 50% of electricity and gas used in building is used in small quantities and metered through low volume non Half Hourly registering meters – as per your house which are read every 3 months roughtly, and hence are quarterly year metering . To […]
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