Blog > February 2012
Tuesday 28th February 2012
On
Friday Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, announced that it would be holding back it’s full scale roll out of smart
meters until the Government makes it
plans for the new meters clearer. Given
that British Gas has already supplied 400,000...
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Friday 24th February 2012
As reported on Edie.net this week, energy watchdog Ofgem has
unveiled a new roadmap of reforms, set to “open up the wholesale electricity
market”. It’s a move that looks to tackle competition in the market and
counteract the dominance of the Big Six.
The...
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Tuesday 21st February 2012
Last week JD Power and Associates announced the results of their annual
Electric Utility Business Customer Satisfaction Study, surveying 24,000 US
utility business customers, which has shown a clear correlation between smart
meters and utility satisfaction.
As...
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Thursday 16th February 2012
Last week the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced a significant
milestone for his RE:NEW home energy efficiency programme, which has helped 40,000
London households to save an estimated £4 million on their energy bills.
As well as helping homeowners...
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Tuesday 14th February 2012
This year could see the turning point for
Europe-wide smart meter implementations, with a new report from Frost & Sullivan stating that Europe will
experience a five-fold growth in installed smart meters by 2017, rising from
43.9m in 2010 to 200.43m.
According...
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Thursday 9th February 2012
Energy efficiency and smart grid website Greenbang reported this week
on the Government’s increasing focus on energy efficiency. Britain’s new Energy and
Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey has created a new division – the Energy Efficiency Deployment
Office...
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Tuesday 7th February 2012
Last
week the Government confirmed that it would no longer be rolling out smart meter technology on a compulsory
basis. Instead the new meters will
be voluntary, with the Government now committing to designing methods for
people to have a choice and be...
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Thursday 2nd February 2012
Utility
Week has today reported on the Energy Innovation Centre being awarded almost £30
million by Ofgem to bring smart grid
technologies to market, drawing from the energy
regulator’s Innovation Funding Incentive scheme and the Low Carbon Networks
Fund.
The
Energy...
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