Smart Meters in Great Britain : The Next Steps? by Gill Owen and Judith Ward

Published July 2007

The report examines the costs of smart meters for electricity and gas, technology and communications issues particularly for gas smart meters, what contribution smart meters could make to demand and emissions reductions and some of the social issues that will arise in smart meter deployment. It makes a number of recommendations for policy and regulatory change.

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Smart meters in Great Britain : the next steps?

This report draws on a set of more detailed papers :

Paper 1 : Gas smart meters, gas meter market, gas smart meter technology, battery life
Paper 2 : Communications options for gas and electricity smart meters
Paper 3 : Costs of smart meters and benefits to suppliers
Paper 4 : Smart meter contribution to UK goals for energy saving and carbon reduction
Paper 5 : Social and prepayment meter issues
Paper 6 : Case studies of California, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland

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