Smart metering

A 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".

Dave Andrews June 29, 2010 Billing, Conservation, Demand manage, Efficiency, Load management, Policy, Smart metering 1

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 us... »

BBC talks about Dynamic Demand (smart fridges) and Smart Metering.

Dave Andrews February 5, 2009 Electricity, Grid control, Load management, News Briefs 0

BBC 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. ... »

"How will mandatory smart metering affect you?" Howard Stark – MD Stark Systems

Dave Andrews February 5, 2009 Billing, Electricity, Grid control, Load management, Tax, Trading 0

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 a... »

Cost of utility's (WPD) fatal imcompetence – a mere £270,000

Dave Andrews January 31, 2009 Billing, News Briefs 1

From the wonderful Electrical Review Column – Gossage “The late Professor Roland Levinsky was a pioneering immunologist, and vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth. He died because, in atrocious weather conditions, he walked into a live 11,000 volt power cable left dangling across a footpath near Wembury, Devon. It was not as if the cable owners, Western Power Distribution (WPD)... »

Labour Peer allegedly boasted he took money to push smart metering legislation

Dave Andrews January 30, 2009 News Briefs, Policy 1

According to various news outlets today, Lord Truscott, one of the “Peers for Laws” had boasted that he had initiated amendments to legislation forcing the installation of smart meters.  This may be a good thing I hear you say.  But basically it is a wheeze to allow the electricity companies to sack their meter readers and force us to pay for the expensive meters so they don’t ... »

Smart Metering 2009; Making it Happen

Dave Andrews November 6, 2008 Billing, Demand manage, Grid control, News Briefs, Smart metering 0

The Institution of Engineering and Technology are working with Tom Eales from Special Report Publishing who is producing a 16 page Smart Metering Supplement, to be published in The Daily Telegraph. The supplement will focus on explaining the advantages, opportunities and challenges around smart metering for business and will be published in The Daily Telegraph on the 27th November 2008 with a hug... »