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Smart Meters are on their way. About 47 million of them are to be installed in 26 million UK homes by 2020. Their purpose is to optimize the gas and electricity supply networks to benefit the consumer...
View ArticleElectric Cars – Where’s the Money
Having come back from the Intellect Transport and Smart Grid conference which – not unreasonably - focussed on Electric Vehicles, I am left with two key questions: why would anyone buy an electric car;...
View ArticleSmart grids, smart tariffs
At the moment, we pay for our power by the Joule: by the 1/3,600,000 kWh if you like. So a simplified formula for a power tariff would be £ = k1*J where k1 is a commercially determined constant. As...
View ArticleComes with power
Bundling of consumables with durable products appears to be increasing. Buy the car: get 3 years’ servicing rolled in. Buy the e-reader: get 3G data access rolled in. Buy a mobile ‘phone from the...
View ArticleSmart energy tariffing to guide consumers
Smart Metering for domestic energy is a huge technical, business and regulatory challenge for the UK. Almost every household will be affected. Their gas and electricity meters will be replaced; the...
View ArticleSmart Energy Companies?
The £11.7bn Smart Metering scheme will provide 30 million UK homes with exact details of how much gas and electricity they use. It will also save billions of pounds for the energy companies. The...
View ArticleSmart Meters: Why wait until 2019?
DECC’s Smart Metering Implementation Programme aims to install new metering systems in 30 million GB homes between 2014 and 2019. But why wait? According to DECC’s Impact Assessment, each consumer will...
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