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First Utility Smart Meter Rollout. For technical reasons a Swiss utility decided to replace all electricity meters of a certain model within weeks. Smart meters typically record energy near real-time and report regularly short intervals throughout the day. First Utility started rolling out energy-efficient smart gas and power meters across Britain on Wednesday becoming the first UK energy provider to do. EOn became the first supplier to offer savings for smart customers in September and since then EDF Energy and First Utility have followed suit.
To date suppliers with whom SMS has contracted for the domestic smart rollout currently provide services to 1549000. The programme aims to roll-out 53 million smart electricity and gas meters to all domestic properties and smart or advanced meters to smaller non-domestic sites in Great Britain by the end of 2019. EOn became the first supplier to offer savings for smart customers in September and since then EDF Energy and First Utility have followed suit. However installations were paused at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and suppliers have been given extra time to install smart meters. A smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy voltage levels current and power factor. The rollout of SMETS2 meters began in 2018.
Citing research by YouGov for the company First Utility says that while the government has plans in place to rollout 47 million smart meters by 2020 there is currently high consumer demand for smart meters being installed across homes much sooner with 48 percent of UK consumers wanting to have smart meters within the next 12 months.
British Gas British Gas are rolling out both First and Second generation smart meters SMETS1 and SMETS2 which youll get depending on where you live. Read more about the UKs smart meter roll-out. The programme aims to roll-out 53 million smart electricity and gas meters to all domestic properties and smart or advanced meters to smaller non-domestic sites in Great Britain by the end of 2019. Smart meters communicate the information to the consumer for greater clarity of consumption behavior and electricity suppliers for system monitoring and customer billing. Smart meters typically record energy near real-time and report regularly short intervals throughout the day. First Utility currently supply energy to circa one million homes in the UK.