smart meters

British Gas Business has been fined £4.5 million for failing to fit 'advanced meters' for some of its larger business customers in time.

Carlo Gavazzi has introduced the EM340 3 phase energy meter, the EM300 Series which utilises touch screen technology making standard user operations such as page scrolling, programming and parameter checks not only simpler but faster; as well as, easier to read avoiding any mechanical issues normally associated with using traditional keypads.

Vodafone will seek to ramp up its energy efficiency measures both within the company and among its customers after revealing its greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions and energy consumption increased over the past year.

A government report has said that energy regulator Ofgem must conduct an impact assessment before any mandatory enforcement of switching to half-hourly settlement can take place.

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) has signed five new framework agreements with independent energy suppliers.

UK energy provider OVO Energy has awarded a £5.5 million contract to Trojan Utilities which will see the company install hundreds of thousands of smart meters in homes and businesses.

Amber Rudd has claimed good progress is being made on the government’s smart meter roll-out initiative, which she says will be “of huge advantage” to energy bill payers in the UK.

Major communications provider O2 is to enter the UK’s domestic energy management sector by launching AT&T’s ‘Digital Life’ product.

Energy suppliers have been given more time by the government to roll out smart metering on smaller non-domestic sites after around two-thirds of responses to a consultation opposed the government’s plans to retain the end-date in April 2016.