Archive for Smart metering
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 be of any use for energy management, (where they can be extraordinarily useful – its the only cost effective way of doing it) half hour metering is needed, and this requires some form of Automatic Meter Reading – AMT since proper HH meters are far too expensive. Read More→
BBC talks about Dynamic Demand (smart fridges) and Smart Metering.
Posted by: | CommentsBBC programme “You and Yours” discussed the issues in a pretty comprehensive and well researched manner.. A representative from David Hirst’s (A Claverton Member) RLTek company described how the frequency sensitive device, fitted to fridges, which are now being sold in UK can help the grid.
Also talked to the Opposition spokesman on energy about Smart Meter and Smart Grids. They described the benefits, but the BBC noted a DEC / BERR report which stated that the benefits for the consumer would be small, and much larger for the utilities. this was more or less denied by the Conservative spokesman.
The point is that Smart Metering is widely considered by some commentators to be a wheeze (Peers for Laws?) to allow the utilities to give up on their hopelessly managed job of actually reading meters (currently with a Meter Reader) – and pile the costs onto consumers by fitting more expensive Smart Meters. Most of the benefits could be achieved by much simpler and cheaper devices.
There was no mention of the fact that both of the systems covered would assist renewables by allowing loads to be deferred not merely from peak demand periods, but to peak wind/renewable generation periods.
http://www.claverton-energy.com/download/143/
http://www.claverton-energy.com/download/144/
http://www.claverton-energy.com/energy-experts-library/downloads/loadmanagement
“How will mandatory smart metering affect you?” Howard Stark – MD Stark Systems
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New licence conditions for the supply of electricity and gas will be introduced on April 6 this year. These new conditions are an essential building block in the Government’s carbon reduction programme for the UK. Under these changes, all Profile Class 5-8 electricity meters, and all metered gas consuming over 732,000 kWh a year, must be replaced by smart meters.
The new metering standards for all Profile Class 5-8 meters will be CoP10 for whole current and CoP5 for CT meters. Customers have until 2014 to change their meters, but any smart meter installed as from the New Year must comply with this new metering code of practice. Read More→
