Nick has been with Navetas since October 2008 and is the company's Strategic Communications Director. Nick has worked for a number of years in the Public Affairs and Communications Industry, providing advice to names such British Airways, John Lewis Group, Prudential and Sainsbury's on a range of issues.

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Let's get on with it..

Monday 30th August 2010

The recently published DECC/Ofgem Smart Metering Implementation Programme Prospectus provided some very interesting holiday reading over the summer break. 

In the Prospectus the Government stated that in order to bring forward the start of the roll-out and help deliver the early, the benefits of smart metering to 27 million homes in the UK, the Government are proposing a staged approach to implementation under which suppliers will start to install smart meters that meet the minimum requirements defined in common technical specifications ahead of a central data and communications entity being established.

Despite this stated vision there is no detail in the Prospectus on how this acceleration will happen. Indeed as part of the consultation (yes there is another one!) DECC/Ofgem ask interested stakeholders to provide ideas on how the roll-out could be carried out more quickly. 

Regular readers of this blog will know i have advocated strongly for the Government to just let the market get on with installing smart meters. All of this indecision just helps to stall the process. 

 It is time for DECC/Ofgem to set a definitive timetable and just get on with it..

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