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Europes Smart Meter Outlook for 2020 Copyright Greenbang.com Ltd 2010


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Executive Summary 2

Introduction 3

Overview Reasons for deployment

Factors driving development

The State of Play Today 5

Government policies

Standardisation efforts

Country-by-country summaries

Market Drivers 11

Benets of smart metering

Energy and infrastructure issues

The role of renewables and

electried transport

Obstacles 14

Cost issues

Standards hurdles

Public perceptions

Infrastructure development

Scalability

Privacy and security 17

Concerns Best practices

Data

Lessons

Education

Opportunities 19

Deployment and mandates

Water

Installation Networks

IT

Here and now

Partnerships

Key Inuencers in Smart metering 22

How companies stack up in Europe

Strategic partnerships

Dominant markets: Now and in the future

Analysis 30

Whats next

Lessons to be learned

Todays maturing markets

Later adopters with growth potential

Top countries to watch

Investment

Top companies to watch

Recommendations 34

Government

EU policy makers

National Local

Business

Utilities

Technology providers

Services companies

New businesses

Contents

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Executive Summary

The European smart electricity meter market stands

to expand rapidly in the coming decade, with 133 million

to 145 million new meters on track to be installed by

2020. That equates to a market of between $24 billion

and $26 billion by that time. The top countries for

this market will probably be those that havent yet

implemented smart metering on any meaningful scale:

Germany, the UK and Poland. France and Spain

are also set to make a signicant impact in the nextfew years, with announced projects already in the

early stages.

Driving the transition to smart meters are government

initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions and

improving energy efciency. The EU, for example, has set

a goal of putting smart meters in 80 per cent of households

within 10 years. That is being interpreted differently by each

European country for example, the UK is aiming for 100

per cent coverage over the same time period.

As of 2010, the current installed base of smart meters

in Europe is estimated at just under 53 million units. With

the number of EU 27 households projected to rise to 225.2

million, that leaves a very large market for smart meter

installations based on current metering goals.

If the UK reaches its target of 100 per cent coverage and

the rest of Europe achieves its 80 per cent goal, the EU27

could see a total of 186 million households with smartmeters by 2020.

Europes Smart Meter Outlook for 2020: A $25 Billion market

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The European smart metering market for electricity is

poised to take off at high speed in the next several years.In fact, if the necessary capital can be made available for

plans already in place or now in the works, the EU of 2020

will likely feature an energy infrastructure radically different

from the one it has today.

A number of factors are driving this development forward,

foremost among them, the pan-European goals of reducing

carbon dioxide emissions, improving energy efciency and

expanding renewable energy sources over the next few

decades.

Meeting those goals will pose a particular challenge

across Europe as the number of smaller households, as

well as total household energy demand, is expected to

increase between now and 2030.

Adapting to a changing energy landscape is another

driver of the transition to smart metering and, ultimately,

a fully smart grid.

As the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy

Security noted in its February 2010 report, Britain (not tomention the rest of the world) is likely to face an energy

crunch in the next ve years as global petroleum production

reaches a peak and then begins to decline. The global

economic meltdown of 2008 helped postpone that crunch

by a couple of years by depressing energy demand, the

task force found. But recovery especially in developing

nations like China and India will soon bring on increased

consumption again.

When that happens, there will be growing competition

for a dwindling oil supply. As a result, oil prices could againbegin spiking to new highs as we saw in 2008 just before

the meltdown. That will carry numerous consequences

for transport, manufacturing and agriculture, with rising

consumer prices for travel, goods and food. Smart metering

could help to blunt that impact by allowing households to

better manage home energy use and nd ways to reduce

consumption and bills.

Introduction

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Across Europe, countries are pushing to increase

homegrown energy production through large-scale wind,solar and tidal projects, as well as via microgeneration

(small-scale, household-based renewables). Managing the

intermittent nature of such energy sources not to mention

the demand burdens expected from a growing number of

electric cars will require much smarter grid technology

than is used today, with smart meters being one essential

element.

Finally, there is the matter of Europes energy

infrastructure itself, much of which is now 65-plus years

old. Whatever energy technology is prevalent in the future,a new power grid will soon be needed to replace todays

geriatric one.

Addressing all these needs will require a smarter

energy infrastructure in which measurements are moretransparent, renewables are more easily integrated into

the grid and efciency improvements are more easily

implemented by consumers themselves.

And the rst piece of this smart infrastructure puzzle will

be smart electricity meters.

Europe needs a smarter energy infrastructure in which measurementsare more transparent

Introduction

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With smart metering mandates now set for the

UK and EU, but standards yet to be determined, theEuropean marketplace for the sector is today a mix of

small, focused and relatively new organisations along

with giant, cross-industry multinationals.

On the continent, the European Commissions OPEN

meter project is working to develop a comprehensive set

of open and public standards for an advanced metering

infrastructure that can support meters for electricity, gas,

water and heat. Project participants aim to complete their

work by the end of June 2011.

As of 2010, the EU is also requiring all newly built homes

to be equipped with smart meters.

In the UK, utilities, smart metering companies and other

stakeholders were awaiting the July 1, 2010, release of

a smart metering prospectus being developed by Ofgem,

Britains oil and gas markets regulator. That document was

expected to provide more details on the planned regulatory

and commercial framework for the smart meter rollout, and

should make standards clearer for companies eyeing the UK

metering market. The UK government estimates it will cost

about 7 billion to install some 26 million smart electricity

meters, along with around 22 million smart gas meters.

The State of Play Today

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The lack of comprehensive standards until now hasnt

deterred some European utilities from conducting smartmetering trials or even mass commercial installation

programmes. Among the larger projects already completed

or under way are:

Austria

Starting in 2010, Siemens will begin installing 100,000

automated metering and information system (AMIS)

electricity meters for customers in upper Austria served

by the utility company Energie AG.

Austria-based utility EVN is evaluating different smartmetering systems in a pilot project. And the countrys

Energie Steiermark is this year launching a 400-person

smart meter trial with the goal of making all meters smart

by 2020.

Belgium In March of 2010, Belgiums Eandis announced it was

installing 4,200 smart electricity and gas meters from

Elster as part of the countrys largest integrated smart

metering pilot project.

Denmark

Denmarks SEAS-NVE plans to begin rolling out smart

meters to customers in Lolland and Falster in 2010. The

company rst ran a trial with 1,050 customers in 2006,

and expects to replace meters for all its 375,000 member

customers (it operates as a cooperative) between now

and 2011.

EnergiMidt, which serves 176,000 customers in

Denmark, is now under way with a smart meter

deployment to all 172,000 of its customers in central

Jutland. The rollout is scheduled to be completed in 2011.

Energi Fyn began the rst phase of its smart meter

upgrade in 2006. With the early stages now completed,

the utility expects to have smart meters installed for all

81,000 of its customers in 2010.

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Finland

In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic

meter reading systems although not fully smart meters

for all its electricity customers in Finland. First launched

in 2003, the rollout affected some 360,000 customers in

Finland.

Fortum, the largest utility company in Finland, is rolling

out smart meters from Echelon to 550,000 customers.

Large-scale deployment is set to get under way in 2011,

with the project expected to be completed by 2014.

Finlands Kemin Energia is installing smart electricitymeters from Landis+Gyr for 15,000 customers, with

deployment set for completion in 2014.

France ERDF, a subsidiary of the utility company EDF, is

currently working to prepare for its Linky project, which

aims to replace 35 million electricity meters in French

households with smart meters. Once completed, it would

take Enel Spas existing title for largest smart meter

rollout to date (27 million meters in Italy between 2000

and 2007). A pilot installation for the Linky project was set

to begin in March 2010 and be nished later in the year.

Germany

Germanys Technische Werke Friedrichshafen began

rolling out about 1,000 smart electricity meters, called

CleverZhler, to households in Friedrichshafen in 2009.

In Germany, EDF subsidiary EnBWs Meregio project

in Baden-Wrttemberg aims to create a model region

with minimal emissions. By 2013, it plans to have in

place an intelligent electrical supply network that links

home-based microgeneration sources of electricity with

communications and energy storage to help reduce

emissions efciently across the region. Eventually, the

network is envisioned as connecting 100,000 retail andbusiness customers.

As of 2010, the government has mandated that smart

meters must be installed in all new buildings.

Hungary E.ON Hungria Zrt., one of the countrys largest utility

rms, upgraded its industrial energy metering system by

working with Landis+Gyr. The data acquisitions systems

overhaul features more than 19,000 new meters at

various metering points.

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Ireland

Energy Minister Eamon Ryan launched the National

Smart Meter plan in 2008, with the goal of installing a

smart meter in every household within ve years. As

of January 2010, 6,500 electricity customers (5,700

households and 800 businesses) were taking part in

a smart meter trial set to run through to the end of the

year. The results of that pilot programme will be used to

determine the plan for a full-scale deployment across

the country.

Italy

Enel Spa of Italy deployed Echelon smart meters tomore than 27 million customers the largest rollout yet

between 2000 and 2005.

Malta

As part of a pilot programme, Enemalta began deploying

5,000 smart meters across Malta in 2009. Working

with IBM, the electricity and water company expects to

replace a total of 250,000 electricity meters by the end of

2012.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the utility Oxxio began rolling out

smart meters in 2005. As of March 2009, the company

had equipped more than 100,000 households with one or

two smart meters for electricity and gas 180,000-plus

meters in total. (The Dutch government had rst suggested

mandatory smart metering for the country, but has since

reversed that decision to make the rollout voluntary.)

Poland

In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic


for industrial customers in Poland.

Spain

Spain In July 2009, Enel and Endesa (a utility in which

Enel acquired a 25.01 per cent stake in 2009) announced

plans to install 13 million smart meters in Spain as part of

the Cervantes project.

Sweden In 2009, Vattenfall completed installation of automatic


for all its electricity customers in Sweden. Launched in

2003, the rollout affected some 900,000 customers.

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UK

The UKs First Utility became the countrys rst energycompany to begin offering free smart meters to all its

customers, starting with households in the East and

West Midlands. As of October 2009, more than 30,000

customers had signed up for the service.

In March 2010, British Gas chose Landis+Gyr to help it

roll out the countrys rst commercial-scale smart meter

deployment. The project calls for installation of up to one

million smart dual fuel electricity/gas meters. British Gas

says the meters could eventually help customers save

more than 200 million in energy costs by 2020.

OnStream, National Grids metering business, plans tolaunch a smart electricity/gas meter pilot project in 2010.

Working with utility companies npower and Scottish and

Southern Energy, OnStream expects to install some

2,000 meters during the summer.

Starting in April 2010, a government-funded year-long

trial got under way through a partnership between the

sustainability group Sustainable Blacon and home

energy management service provider AlertMe. The trial

involves 150 households: 50 will receive AlertMe energy

management systems, another 50 will use passiveenergy monitoring systems and the nal 50 will have no

energy monitoring.

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Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas)

European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas: Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas) (Oct. 2009)

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Across Europe, there is growing pressure to reduce

carbon dioxide emissions to minimise climate change.That pressure is one of the key drivers behind the push

for smart metering and, ultimately, a fully smart grid.

In the UK, for example, the Low Carbon Transition Plan

aims to cut carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020.

The plan also calls for Britain to derive 40 per cent of its

electricity from low-carbon sources by that time.

Smart metering is seen as a way to reduce energy

consumption, which is otherwise projected to keep growing

across the continent over the next two decades (althoughnot as rapidly as expected in developing countries).

Its also aimed at improving efciency, not just at the

household level, but utility-wide. For energy providers,

smart meters promise to slash uncertainties in electricity

consumption data and billing, eliminate the cost of manual

meter readings and alert utilities to problems and outages

more quickly and effectively.

(Source: Greenbang)

Market Drivers

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For consumers, Smart Meters provide

1. Greater control over energy consumption bills2. Faster, easier change in energy services and suppliers3. Greater potential for microgeneration4. Quicker (real-time) and more accurate meter readings5. The ability to shift energy use to lower-cost, off peak times

Smart metering is aimed at improving efficiency, not just at thehousehold level, but utility-wide

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An infrastructure with smart meters will also be better

able to manage the changing conditions brought by agrowing supply of intermittent, renewable energy sources

like wind and solar power. In 2008, for example, utilities

in Texas were able to keep the lights on even when low

winds reduced turbine output to near nothing because

smart demand response enabled them to automatically

and temporarily reduce energy consumption by devices

like refrigerators that dont require continuous power to

function.

Another factor driving the European smart meter market

is one noted earlier in this report: dwindling fossil fuel

production amid rising global demand.

Initiatives across Europe are launching to respond to

such concerns by reducing transports dependence on

oil and moving toward electric cars. However, that raises

the need for a more modern and resilient electrical grid,

one in which energy and data can ow both ways so cars

can charge during times of low demand or act as energy

sources at peak demand. A smart grid like that cant exist

without smart meters.

Another trend making smart meters more important is the

expansion of microgeneration small, household-basedsolar panels or wind turbines. Aiming to boost energy

security, governments are encouraging microgeneration

efforts via subsidies and feed-in tariffs. But small-scale

energy production can only be effective at the large scale if,

again, energy and data can travel both ways on the grid.

Bringing smart meters to Europes energy grid is also a

necessary part of updating an infrastructure thats well past

its prime. Both the electricity generation and distribution

systems are in need of upgrade and replacement anyway,

and smarter technologies will be vital to meet tomorrows

energy needs.

Market Drivers

Dwindling fossil fuel and increasing global demand is driving theEuropean smart meter market

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ene s expec e rom a ro ou n smar me ers

European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas: Status Review on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering (Electricity and Gas) (Oct. 2009)

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Smart metering companies must use funding for further researchand development

While government and industry support for smart

metering is strong, a number of signicant hurdlesremain to be overcome before the rst chapter of the

smart grid dream becomes reality.

How to pay for the transition, in particular, is a great

concern. Ultimately, the cost of a smart meter rollout will

be borne by the customers whose households receive the

new technology although proponents insist that expense

will be easily offset by improved efciency and, ultimately,

lower energy bills. In todays early stages, though, utilities

and government agencies must dig into their own pockets

or nd funding elsewhere to support pilot projects and

larger deployments.

And smart metering companies must hope not only that

that funding is found, but that it makes it into their accounts

rather than a competitors to help pay for further

research and development.

A lack of standards and an overall framework for smart

metering and, ultimately, a smart grid, also s tands in theway. However, that could soon change if the efforts now

under way in both the UK and Europe bear fruit as hoped.

The European Commissions OPEN meter project

expects to complete a set of standards for the industry by

the end of June 2011. And Ofgem, Britains oil and gas

markets regulator, is set to release its recommendation for

smart metering even sooner: on July 1, 2010.

Such standards will likely make the path forward clearer,

but they could end up favouring some smart metering

companies technologies over others. That could lead

to some shaking up of the sector as it now stands, with

ultimate winners and losers becoming more apparent over

the next few years.

Obstacles

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ERGEG draft guidelines of good practice on regulatory aspects of smart metering

European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas:An ERGEG Public Consultation Paper on Draft Guidelines of Good Practice on Regulatory Aspects of Smart Metering for Electricity and Gas (June 2010)

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Another potential obstacle to a mass smart meter

deployment is resistance by end users. Companies lookingfor a piece of the European smart metering pie will need

to avoid the mistakes of earlier meter rollouts in places

such as the US, where some customers have complained

that smart meters dramatically increased, rather than

decreased, their energy bills. The risk here, if not properly

managed, goes beyond mere bad PR: some complaints in

the US have already led to lawsuits, which are certainly an

undesirable expense for any organisation.

Utility customers and some industry professionals

as well have also expressed concern about smart

meterings potential data security risks. In the Netherlands,

for example, ofcials decided not to make smart meters

mandatory after hearing objections from groups worried

about consumer privacy.

Beyond overcoming customers doubts and reservations,

utilities and metering companies will also have to educate

people about how best to take advantage of smart

meters benets. Smart metering cant achieve its goals if

households dont act on the new levels of energy-use (and

cost) intelligence they gain.

From the standpoint of smart metering companies

and utilities, the issue of scalability could also prove achallenge. Rolling out trials for 5,000 or 10,000 households

is one matter; equipping an entire continent with well

over 100 million meters in the next 10 years is an entirely

different one.

Managing a smart-metered infrastructure will also

take more advanced communication, data and control

technologies for utilities, along with ample and adequately

trained personnel to handle them. Theres also the

challenge of making the rst-stage technology from

meters to data management sufciently exible so it can

be easily and cost-effectively upgraded to support more

advanced phases of a smart grid.

And, of course, implementing a fully smart grid will take

even more investment than a smart meter rollout alone.

Obstacles

Smart metering cant achieve its goals if households dont act on thenew levels of energy-use (and cost) intelligence they gain

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European initiatives to install smart meters and,

ultimately, even more advanced smart-grid energymanagement technologies in homes and businesses

inherently raise a host of privacy and data security

concerns. For example, its clear that switching from

a system in which a human visits a home every six

months or so to read an electricity meter in person,

to a system in which an automated reading of energy

consumption is generated every 15 minutes, provides

far more information about homeowners daily habits

and whereabouts.

Such prospects have raised considerable concern

amongst consumer and privacy groups across the EU

with varying results. In the Netherlands, for instance,

authorities backed down from their initial attempts to make

smart metering mandatory after vocal pushback by some

segments of the public.

Ofcials and industry leaders say standardisation of

smart metering technology will eventually help address

and resolve some of consumers privacy and data security

issues. The establishment of best practices is also aimed at

reducing such concerns.

In its draft consultation on smart metering good

practices, for example, the European Regulators Group

for Electricity & Gas (ERGEG) recommends that outside

of a utilitys need to use consumption data for billing and

other regulated purposes access to such data must be

controlled by the customer. A similar guideline is proposedin the July 2010 smart metering prospectus released by the

UKs Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

and energy market regulator Ofgem.

Such a standard, effectively communicated to customers,

is vital in light of studies that have shown most consumers

believe they should have control over the details of their

energy usage patterns. A smart grid survey in the US

by EcoPinion, for instance, found that nearly two-thirds

of consumers said their energy consumption data belong

to them.

It is always the customer that chooses in which way

metering data shall be used and by whom, the ERGEG

advises, adding that any uses beyond regulated ones must

rst receive a customers approval. It is of the utmost

importance that the customers opinions of the smart

metering system are positive, and not a source of anxiety.

Thats an objective that some early implementers of

smart meters have fallen down on in the past. In the US,

for instance, Pacic Gas & Electrics smart meter rollout

led to widespread customer uproar that continues to have

negative repercussions for the company. European utilities

would be wise to pay heed to such previous experiences

and avoid repeating them.

Privacy and security issues

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The lesson to be learned is that implementation of smart

metering is more than a technical/technological issue itsalso one that requires proper customer education, public

relations and genuine two-way dialogue.

Such a lesson will prove particularly important in energy

markets such as the UK, where customers are free to

switch from one provider to another. Utilities that prove

less than effective in their smart metering campaigns could

ultimately see those failings reected in dwindling bottom

lines, while more savvy providers will have the opportunity

to gain market share.

The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate

Change has said that utilities should also dene security

controls for each element within their systems including

smart meters with the exchange of information from one

element to another guided by proper risk assessments,

company policies and legal requirements.

Utilities implementing consumer technologies, offerings

and services within a smart grids environment that fails to

address these issues will encounter consumer and political

opposition, restricting their ability to realise the economic

promise of smart grids technologies, stated the forums

December 2009 Technology Action Plan on smart grids.

They may face angry regulators and customers as well as

liability issues.

The Technology Action Plan adds, Consumer-based

smart grids technologies put privacy interests at riskbecause a core purpose is to collect information related to

a particular household or business. Meters already collect

a unique meter identier, timestamp, usage data and time

synchronisation every 15 to 60 minutes. Soon, they will

also collect outage, voltage, phase and f requency data, and

detailed status and diagnostic information from networked

sensors and smart appliances. These data show directly

whether people were present, when they were present, and

what they were doing.

In many ways, the privacy and security issues arising

with the rollout of smart meters are similar to those that

appeared with earlier technologies such as the internet and

mobile phones. As with these technologies, smart metering

is also likely to eventually be comfortably accepted by

consumers. However, it bears repeating that utilities and

smart metering companies can do much to speed that

acceptance along through proper communication and

implementation programmes.

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The widening rollout of smart meters across

Europe over the next 10 years presents a variety ofinvestment opportunities. In fact, the opportunities

extend well beyond smart metering technologies

themselves into many other spaces, both product

- and service-oriented.

One unique aspect of the investment potential in the

smart metering space is that the technology is not only

expected to be widely deployed across the EU, but in many

regions is mandated to be. The breadth of that deployment

80 to 100 per cent of households also distinguishes the

smart meter market from many other cleantech initiatives

that might be far more narrowly implemented (think a few

hundred wind turbines at most at any particular site). While

the meters themselves might be small, their impact overall

will be mighty.

Its worth noting that the rms that take the lead in

Europes rollout of smart meters also stand to extend their

reach as various markets move on to implement smart

gas and smart water meters. The latter could prove an

especially promising market, as after energy water

is likely to be the next key resource in need of careful

management and control across the continent.

The installation alone of smart meters represents a large

service market as deployments take place in the differentEuropean nations. After that, the market for maintenance

services and upgrade management as new applications

become available is also likely to grow ... another

investment opportunity.

Furthermore, the smart metering market is unique

because it is not a standalone sector but an integral

element of the eventual smart grid connecting millions of

networked homes and smart appliances. In that regard,

smart meters are not simply a one-time investment but

a long-term piece of the smart grid puzzle that will be in

continual need of upgrading, renement, maintenance and

eventually replacement.

In addition, a whole suite of services will be needed

to manage the communications technologies and vast

quantities of data that will be part of any smart-metered

region. That opens up additional investment opportunities

for ICT rms, software management companies and other

services and consultancy providers.

Opportunities

Smart meters are not simply a one-time investment but a long-termpiece of the smart grid puzzle

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As Europe builds out its smart meter and smart grid

infrastructure, the market opportunities for keepingthat infrastructure up and running not to mention

continually upgraded are also likely to stay strong.

Its hard to imagine, except under the most exceptional

of circumstances, the technologies being switched off or

abandoned once they are in place. In this respect, smart

meters are a far less speculative than, say, carbon capture

and storage projects or algae-based biofuels, which are

many years away from commercial development.

So, beyond the metering rms themselves, the ongoing

rollouts of smart meters across Europe will open up

investment opportunities for a whole host of related

products and services. These could include:

Hardware and software developers

Networking services and technology providers

Value-added resellers

Silicon chip companies

IT and systems integrators

Energy efciency solutions providers

Research, development and engineering rms

Utilities

A glimpse at the list of partners for many smart metering

companies gives an indication of the investment marketpotential:

Accenture (management consultancy partnering

with Itron)

British Gas (Landis+Gyr UK utility partner)

Disenco (Sentec partner specialising in micro-combined

heat and power systems)

Diversied Power Solutions (Echelon partner specialising

in energy efciency)

Eandis (Elster Belgium utility partner)

Helen Electricity Network

(Landis+Gyr Finnish utility partner)

Integr8 (Itron UK renewable energy company partner)

Logica (IT software and systems integrator partnering

with Itron)

Magyar Telekom (telco partner of AlertMe)

OnStream (National Grid metering company and

Sentec partner)

SAP AG (Landis+Gyr business software partner)

Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Landis+Gyr IT

solutions and services partner)

Opportunities

Smart meters will open up investment opportunities for a whole hostof related products and services

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Stark Software (data collection software partner

of Iskraemeco) StreamServe (sofware applications provider partnering

with Itron)

TEC Systems (Echelon partner and systems integrator)

T-Hrvatski Telekom (telco partner of AlertMe)

Unitronics (Echelon partner specialising in the IT and

communications market)

Opportunities

Clearly, the influence of the burgeoning European smart meter

market extends far beyond the providers of the meters themselves

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A number of companies are inuencing the ideas

behind smart grid in Europe and how technologyshould be adopted. Several have taken a particularly

prominent position through their involvement

with some of the more extensive smart metering

implementations that have already occurred in

countries like Italy and France.

Echelon, for example, worked with Enel Spa on the

largest metering rollout to date: 27 million units installed in

Italy between 2000 and 2005. (And Enel is now planning to

deploy another 13 million smart meters in Spain.)

And then theres Landis+Gyr, which enjoys wide

recognition in the utility markets in the US and is rapidly

expanding its reach in Europe. It s taken the lead in helping

to create a new smart metering industry association to

advance interoperability standards and recently partnered

with the giant Siemens to launch an integrated, end-to-

end smart metering offering. Landis+Gyr is also part of a

consortium set to work with EDF/ERDF on a 35-million-

meter project launching in France.

Sentec, meanwhile, is keenly focused on the UK as

the country prepares for its massive launch into smartmetering. It has the advantage of being based in the UK,

as well as having a working partnership with National Grid,

one of the nations largest utilities.

Company proles

Listed below are proles of the smart grid-focused

companies that have already established a leading foothold

in parts of Europe, along with emerging rms that are likely

to capitalise on planned rollouts across the EU27.

They are ranked according to the breadth and depth

of their Europe-focused partnerships, with the top 10

inuencers in the sector being:

1. Echelon

2. Landis+Gyr

3. Itron

4. Iskraemeco

5. Sentec

6. OnStream

7. Tendril

8. Silver Spring Networks

9. Elster

10. AlertMe.

Key inuencers of the smart metering market

Extensive smart metering implementations have already occurred incountries like Italy and France

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1. Echelon

While its headquartered in San Jose, California,

Echelon is exerting considerable inuence on the

European smart metering market. One of its key

achievements to date was helping Enel Spa of Italy

roll out smart meters to more than 27 million of the

utilitys customers between 2000 and 2005 the largest

deployment of smart meters yet.

Outside of the US, Echelon markets its Networked Energy

Services (NES) system primarily through value-added

resellers (VARs) such as E.ON ES in Sweden. Other energy

companies that Echelon has worked with includeSEAS-NVE, Energi Midt and NRGi (Denmark); Vattenfall

and E.ON (Sweden); Linz (Austria); and Fortum (Finland).

Over the past three years, the majority of Echelons

revenue has come from six key customers: utilities EBV

Electronik GmbH, Enel Spa and Duke Energy; and VARs

Eltel Networks, Telvent Energia Y Medioambiente and ES

Elektrosandberg. The partnership with Eltel generated a full

quarter of Echelons revenue in 2009.

On its own or through its VARs, Echelon is currently

working with more than 100 utility rms on pilot metering

projects or deployments around the world. Globally, the

company has so far distributed more than 2 million NES

smart meters, and its technology underlies the 27 million

smart meters deployed across I taly.

Contact details

Postal Address: Echelon Corporation,

550 Meridian Avenue, San Jose

CA 95126, USA

Telephone Number: 408 938 5200

Email: [email protected]

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2. Landis+Gyr

Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Landis+Gyr

operates in 30-plus countries. It shipped its 2 millionth

FOCUS AX smart meter late in 2009.

Landis+Gyr has partnered with a consortium working

with EDF/ERDF to deploy project Linky, which aims to

roll out 35 million smart meters in households across

France between 2012 and 2017. The project would be the

largest smart metering deployment in the world to date.

(Other members of the consortium, which is managed by

Atos Origin, include Actaris (Itron) and Iskraemeco.) The

company also recently announced it would work with BritishGas to deploy the rst commercial-scale smart meter

deployment in the UK.

Having widely deployed meters on both sides of the

pond, Landis +Gyr enjoys solid name recognition in the

utility sector. Its also taken on the role of an industry

leader by joining with fellow smart metering rms

Iskraemeco and Itron to form the Interoperable Device

Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association. The

organisations aim is to promote open standards and

specications to make interoperability a reality in the smart

metering industry.

The company has moved aggressively this year, rolling

out a new end-to-end smart metering solution with the giant

Siemens IT Solutions and Services. And in late June, it alsoannounced it had signed an agreement with the Finnish

utility Helen Electricity Network to deploy 200,000 smart

meters and metering services in that country.

Landis+Gyr is earning a high prole in the UK, where it

recently announced it would provide up to one million smart

electricity/gas meters as part of British Gas/Centricas

rst commercial-scale smart metering deployment in that

country.

Other key partners include SAP AG, Cisco, Microsoft

(Microsoft Hohm), Vattenfall Lmp, Tendril, Kemin Energia

and E.ON Hungria Zrt.

Contact details

Postal Address: Landis+Gyr AG, Feldstrasse 1,

CH-6301 Zug

Telephone Number: +41(0)41 935 6000


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3. Itron

Based in Liberty Lake, Washington, Itron has a

second headquarters in Luxembourg, where it operates

under the name Actaris. It provides smart metering,

data collection and software for more than 8,000

utilities delivering energy and water services around

the globe. So far, it has deployed more than three

million pay-as-you-go smart meters in the UK.

Together with Landis+Gyr and Iskraemeco, Itron is one of

the founding members of the Interoperable Device Interface

Specications (IDIS) Industry Association. Its also working

with the same two partners in an Atos Origin-managedconsortium to help EDF/ERDF roll out 35 million smart

meters in France.

Itron also has active working relationships with Iberdrola,

Eandis, Elster, Ambient, Cisco, GE, Trilliant and Tendril.

Contact details

Postal Address: 2111 N Molter Road, Liberty Lake,

WA 99019, USA

Telephone Number: (509) 924 9900


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4. Iskraemeco

Slovenia-based Iskraemeco, founded in 1945, serves

a global market and distributes devices for measuring

electricity, gas, heat and water. Its mission is to

enable utilities and industry to improve performance

while lowering environmental impact. It currently has

metering devices in more than 100 countries.

In May 2010, Iskraemeco began operating a new

manufacturing facility in Sarajevo thats expected to

produce around 50,000 smart meters a year. The utility

rm Elektroprivjeda BiH plans to roll out those meters to its

700,000 customers over the next 10 years.

Iskraemeco has also taken the lead in working with both

Landis+Gyr and Itron (Actaris) to launch the Interoperable

Device Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association

and plan for a mass rollout of smart meters in France.

5. Sentec

Founded in 1997 and based in Cambridge in the

UK, Sentec is a technology consulting rm that

develops products for the smart metering and energy

management industries. It has licensed meter designs

for electricity, gas and water measurement.

So far, the company claims to have ve million of its

meter designs most of them smart electricity meters

in operation. Sentec has served markets in the UK,

North America and Asia, and has seen rapid growth in its

business over the past two years, with turnover increasing

by 150 per cent.

Most recently, Sentec has partnered with OnStream

(National Grid) to together develop a custom smart

electricity meter designed specically for the UK market.

The two companies plan to launch a trial of the meters in

the summer of 2010, and aim to gain the business of at

least some of the other big six utilities in the UK (with the

exception of British Gas, which has already hooked up

with Landis+Gyr). Other Sentec partners include Onzo,

Polysolar and Sensus Metering.

Contact details

Postal Address: Stanton House, 49-51 Stanton Road,

Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 5FW

Telephone No: +44 (0) 1159 445544


Contact details

Postal Address: 5 The Westbrook Centre, Milton Road,Cambridge, CB4 1YG

Telephone No: +44 1223 303800


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6. OnStream (National Grid)

OnStream, National Grids metering business,

installs, maintains and/or provides readings for around

20 million household, business and industrial meters

in the UK.

Its developed a dual-fuel smart metering system to

measure both electricity and gas consumption, and has

installed around 27,000 such meters so far.

OnStream has a long-term contract with British Gas, and

is trialing smart meters with both npower and Scottish and

Southern Energy. It has also partnered with smart meteringrm Sentec to develop a meter specially developed for the

UK market.

7. Tendril

Based in Boulder, Colorado, Tendril provides

products and applications for two-way communication

between utility companies and their customers.

The companys suite of offerings includes in-home

energy monitoring displays, smart thermostats, load control

switches for supply and demand management and IP

gateway devices for data delivery.

Tendril has partnerships with many smart grid-focused

organisations, including Elster, GE, Itron, Landis+Gyr,

Silver Spring Networks, IBM, the CURRENT Group, Intel,Accenture, Capgemini and Navigant Consulting.

Contact details

Postal Address: OnStream, 35 Homer Road, Solihull,

West Midlands, B91 3QJ

Telephone No: 0845 757 3212


Contact details

Postal Address: 5395 Pearl Parkway, Suite 100,

Boulder, CO 80301, USA

Telephone No: 303-951-4360


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8. Silver Spring Networks

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Silver

Spring Networks is a smart grid-focused company

that works to help utilities improve efciency, reduce

emissions and enable customers to monitor and

manage their energy usage.

It provides utilities with both hardware and software,

as well as the services needed to deploy smart energy

management offerings.

Silver Spring has worked with a number of utility

companies, including Pacic Gas & Electric, Florida Power& Light, Pepco Holdings, Jemena Electricity Networks

and United Energy Distribution. Its also partnered with

Landis+Gyr, GE Energy, Itron, Elster, Tendril, Cisco, Onzo,

eMeter, GridPoint, Oracle and Invensys.

9. Elster Group

Based in Germany, the Elster Group lays claim to

one of the most extensive installed meter bases in

the world. It says it has deployed 200 million-plus

metering devices globally over the past 10 years.

Recent company acquisitions have helped to boost

Elsters prole in the European metering market.

EnergyICT, a Belgian-based company acquired by

the Elster Group in 2009, is currently working with the

Belgian electricity and gas utility Eandis on a 4,200-unit

smart meter rollout thats one of the countrys largest

pilots to date.

The Elster Group also provides meters for water utilities,

and acquired the SmartMeter and Ajusta businesses f rom

the UKs Severn Trent Services in 2009. It operates testing

facilities in France, the UK, Spain, Germany, Slovakia,

Benelux and Turkey, among others.

Contact details

Postal Address: Silver Spring Networks,555 Broadway Street, Redwood City,

CA 94063

Telephone No: 650-298-4200Email: [email protected]

Contact details

Postal Address: 130 Camford Way, Sundon Park, Luton,

Bedfordshire, LU3 3AN, UKTelephone No: +44 (0)1582 846400


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10. AlertMe

Based in Cambridge in the UK, AlertMe provides a

variety of home energy management products and

services, including meter readers, smart plugs and

online/mobile energy monitoring services.

It also enables online management of home heating

and security.

Founded in 2006, AlertMe markets its products and

services directly to consumers and through partnerships

with telcos and other service providers. It has teamed

up with organisations as diverse as Google PowerMeter,British Gas, Magyar Telekom of Hungary and T-Hrvatski

Telekom of Croatia.

11. GE

With its headquarters in Faireld, Connecticut, global

technology, nance and media giant GE is developing

a variety of smart grid-enabling technologies as part of

its ecomagination initiative, which aims to solve the

worlds biggest environmental challenges while driving

protable growth for GE.

Among the leading organisations participating in

ecomaginations advisory board are Climate Change

Capital, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Khosla

Ventures, World Resources Institute, Ceres, University

College London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand Google.

In April of 2010, GE opened a new Smart Grid

Technology Centre of Excellence in Atlanta, Georgia. The

centre is partnering with the Georgia Institute of Technology

to develop and test new smart-grid technologies

for improved energy efciency, renewable energy

management and consumer control of power usage.

Contact details

Postal Address: AlertMe.com Ltd, Compass House,

80 Newmarket Road, Cambridge,CB5 8DZ

Telephone No: +44 (0)1223 222150


Contact details

Postal Address: GE Energy, No2, The Arena,Downshire Way, Bracknell, Berkshire,

RG12 1PU, UK

Telephone No: +44 (0)1344 460500

Email: tbc

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12. Sentilla

Based in Redwood City, California, with ofces

in Reading, UK, Sentilla provides a platform for

demand-side energy management in data centres and

commercial and industrial facilities. The platform tracks

and analyses energy consumption in real time using a

web-based interface.

Sentilla has partnered with a number of companies to

develop and distribute its energy-management products,

including IBM, Cisco, SAP, Sun Microsystem and various

reseller partners.

13. Oxxio

Based in the Netherlands, Oxxio buys electricity and

natural gas from energy wholesalers and resells those

services to more than 600,000 customers. It started up

its smart metering business to boost its service offerings

and to gain independent and more detailed access to data

about its customers energy consumption. The company

also expects to begin producing its own energy in 2010

with a new power plant in Rotterdam.

Oxxio based its automated meter management system

on the one developed by Enel Spa in Italy, and enlisted IBM

to develop and operate the metering and data-managementinfrastructure.

Contact details

Postal Address: 400 Thames Valley Park Drive,

Reading, RG6 1PT, UK

Telephone No: +44 (0) 118 963 7780


Contact details

Postal Address: Marathon 5, Hilversum, Noord Holland,

1213 PC Netherlands

Telephone No: +31 (0)356 265800

Email: tbc

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The next two to three years will be critical ones for

the smart metering sector for several reasons

Firstly, they will nally see denitive standards and

frameworks for the industry released by both the UK and

the rest of the EU. Secondly, those standards could exert

a signicant impact on which metering rms come out on

top. And, thirdly, to meet their goals of 100 per cent and

80 per cent smart meter coverage by 2020, Britain and the

remainder of Europe respectively will need to begin the

process for massive deployments shortly.

Enel Spas experiences with its large-scale rollout in Italy

will provide instructive lessons for the future, as will ERDFs

move forward with its planned installation of 35 million

meters in France by 2017. Enel Spa and Endesa have also

begun planning a 13-million-meter rollout in Spain.

Such plans indicate Italy, in particular, but also France

and Spain are maturing markets for smart meters or will

be in the near future. Finland, Denmark and Sweden are

also well on their way toward implementing next-generation

metering, meaning smart meter and smart grid companies

will soon have to focus on growth in other regions that

today remain behind the pack.

Thats where the opportunities will be, if those remaining

European countries hope to meet the EU goal of 80 percent smart meter penetration by 2020.

As the overview table of smart metering rollouts across

Europe indicates, those countries include Austria, the

Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK,

Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and

the Slovak Republic. However, as noted previously, EDF/

ERDF has plans to deploy 35 million meters across France

between 2012 and 2017.

Three of the remaining potential markets are also among

Europes most populous, suggesting they are due to have

an outsized impact on the smart meter market over the

next 10 years, They include: Germany, with 38.9 million

households as of 2010; the UK, with 27 million households;

and Poland, with 14.7 million households. With minimal

smart metering coverage so far, these three nations could

if they aim to achieve EU efciency targets comprise

more than half of the new smart meter market.

Analysis

Massive smart meter deployments required to meet the UK goal of100% coverage by 2020

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With its goal of 100 per cent smart metering by

2020, the UK is poised to make the next big splash inimplementation. With the recent DECC-Ofgem release of a

prospectus outlining proposed frameworks for the industry,

smart meter companies now have a clearer path forward.

After that, the UK should expect to see metering pilots and

rollouts begin to accelerate across the country.

Germany will then probably be the next large market to

appear in the industrys cross-hairs. Although less than 1

per cent of all electricity meters in the country were smart

as of 2008, more advanced metering is now required for

all new construction. Furthermore, Germany is already a

leader in renewables development and efforts to integrate

electricity-based transport into the national grid. Smart

metering will be a necessary addition to such a system

sooner or later.

In addition, green and efciency-minded Germans

indicate theyre ready to see smart meters in their homes.

A survey of more than 1,000 utility customers in early 2010

found that eight out of 10 see smart metering as a way to

reduce energy bills and manage appliances to run when

electricity costs are lowest.

While most of the top German utilities are already testing

some smart meters, though, their customers appear tobe waiting to see more incentives for adoption, whether

through better communication of benets, low-cost or free

smart meters and clearer price differences between

peak and off-peak consumption.

Poland will probably be the last of the three populous

late adopters to take the smart meter plunge. However,

one of the countrys largest energy companies (Polska

Grupa Energetyczna) is now conducting a pilot rollout of

some 800,000 smart meters in Warsaw nearly one-sixth

of its total customer base. And plans now under way to

privatise the energy sector will also likely clear the way for

accelerated investment in smart metering.

The success of metering goals will also depend on

the effectiveness of industry-wide efforts to promote

interoperability, scalability and exibility. All these will be

vital for ensuring the technologies deployed over the

next several years can be easily and cost-effectively

upgraded to deliver more advanced smart grid applications

in the future.

Analysis

Success of metering goals depends on the effectiveness of industry-wide efforts to promote interoperability, scalability and flexibility

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New organisations such as the Interoperable Device

Interface Specications (IDIS) Industry Association recentlyestablished by metering rms Landis+Gyr, Iskraemeco and

Itron will play an important role in this regard.

While the mechanisms for paying for the widespread

rollout of smart meters across Europe remain to be

nalised, consumers are expected to ultimately foot a large

balance of the bill.

The key for winning their acceptance of this fact will lie

with utilities and smart metering rms effectively conveying

the message that smart metering will over the long term

save households money especially as energy and

carbon prices rise over time.

In the meantime, both the European Commission and

UK government are making signicant investments in

smart metering research, development and pilot projects.

Europes Electricity Grid Initiative, for example, budgets

1.9 billion for such activities between 2010 and 2018,

although just a portion of that is directed specically at

smart meters.

The UKs Ofgem has also established a Low Carbon

Networks Fund of up to 500 million to support electricitydistributors test new technologies, including demand-side

management and smart metering.

Projects selected for funding are scheduled to be

announced in December of 2010.

Venture capital will also continue to play a large role,

as many investors see smart meters as a key efciency

technology with a solid and short-term potential for returns

on investment. In just six months time (between November

2009 and April 2010), for example, smart metering rm

Landis+Gyr successfully raised $265 million in capital to

help pay for its ongoing growth and operations.

Utilities, too, are investing with an eye toward not-too-

long-term paybacks. Consider OnStream (National Grid),

which over the past three years has invested 384 million

to build its metering business.

Analysis

Projects selected for funding are scheduled to be announced inDecember of 2010.

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The planned continent-wide rollout of smart meters over

the coming decade will probably lead to some shakeout inthe sector, with clear winners likely to emerge over the next

few years. However, smart metering rms with lottery-

winning technology interoperable, scalable and exible

enough to accommodate future smart-grid upgrades can

expect signicant market opportunities as the EU moves

forward to achieve its 2020 goals.

That market could include as many as 133 million to

145 million smart electricity meter installations.

With major initiatives already completed in Italy, and

now getting under way in France and Spain, the next key

markets will probably be the UK, Germany and Poland,

in that order. Both Germany and the UK, in particular,

have made smart metering a key element of their carbon

reduction goals and the fact that they are now playing

catch-up with early adopters like Italy and the Nordic

countries makes them both poised to dominate the smart-

meter market over the next 10 years.

Several smart meter companies appear most likely

to capitalize on this coming growth: Echelon, which hasalready established itself as a huge player through its work

with Enel Spa in Italy; Landis+Gyr, which along with Atos

Origin, Actaris and Iskraemeco are set to launch the

mass rollout of smart meters in France; and Sentec, which

has its foot in the door with National Grid/OnStream in the

UK market. In particular, its likely that Sentec will switch

into high gear once Ofgem gives its direction for the UK

smart metering rollout.

It should also probably come as no surprise that these

three companies Echelon, Landis+Gyr and Sentec

are also performing relatively well in the market right now,

despite ongoing economic challenges. Over the past year,

Landis+Gyr has raised some $250 million in funding to

support company growth and project development, while

Sentec has more than doubled its turnover over the past

two years. And, although Echelon reported a decline in

revenues in 2009 compared to 2008, it has recently inked

some strong new partnerships, in particular, a long-term

agreement with Duke Energy, the third-largest electric utility

in the US.

Analysis

The market could include as many as 133 million to 145 millionsmart electricity meter installations.

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Government

EU: Act as a central clearinghouse for information on

standards and projects for all stakeholders (countries,

local governments, utilities, tech rms, service providers,

new businesses and consumers)

National: Communicate and coordinate with utilities,

consumers and other stakeholders for consistency and

clarity on rollouts

Local: Engage both utilities and consumers, along

with any other relevant stakeholders, to ensure local

transparency and community involvement

Business Utilities: Pay heed to the mistakes made by other

utilities in earlier rollouts and take the steps necessary to

leapfrog them; involve and communicate with consumers

from the start; launch active education campaigns that

are transparent about potential consumer concerns such

as data security

Tech companies: Keep technologies scaleable and

upgradeable; participate in standards initiatives

Service providers: Communicate with utilities and

consumers to address evolving service needs and

develop new services to meet changing demands New businesses: Keep abreast of ongoing projects and

developments with an eye toward new business product/

service opportunities; communicate with stakeholders to

assess evolving needs

Recommendations

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AlertMe

AlertMe

AlertMe:AlertMe now available in Croatia through T-Hrvatski Telekom

AlertMe:AlertMe now available In Hungary through Magyar Telekom

British Gas

Center for International RelationsSmart Grid Development in Poland (pdf)

Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)Appraisal of Costs & Benefits of Smart Meter Roll

Out Options (pdf)

Dong Energy2009 Annual Report

EandisEandis signs contract to supply smart energy meters

(pdf, Dutch only)

Echelon

EDF

Environment - Climate ChangeEDFManaging Energy Demand

The Elster Group

eMeterGermany -- Like Others -- Want Smart Meters

EnBW AGAnnual Report 2009: The smart grid

Enel

Enemalta

Energie SteiermarkBig turnout on Smart electricity meters: 400 customers

searched for test (German only)

Energy Regulatory OfceTowards Smart Grid in Poland

Energy Regulatory OfceConsumers Educational Programs as the Key Factor of

Smart Grid Development

Energy.euAlcatel-Lucent and Deutsche Telekom Launch Web User

Interface for Smart Metering Trial in T-City Friedrichshafen

Energy.eu

Key elements of the Internal Energy Market Package as

proposed by the Commission on 19 September 2007 (pdf)

Energy.euGas and electricity market statistics (pdf)

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GE

IBM

IBM PolandIBM Poland and WINUEL Develop the First Polish Smart

Metering Software Package

Iskraemeco

Itron

Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr

Vattenfall creates central Europes largest GPRS-basedmeter data reading system

MeRegio: Smart Grids

National Grid

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Smart Grid Collaboration Site

nrc handelsblad

Smart energy meter will not be compulsory

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Energy Efficiency Trends and Policies in the Household &Tertiary sectors in the EU 27 (pdf)

Ofgem

OnStream

Open Gateway Energy Management Alliance (OGEMA)

OPEN Meter

Oxxio

Prask energetika Group (PRE)

About us

Sentec

Sentilla

Siemens

Sustainable Buildings - Smart Meters

Silver Spring Networks

Smart House/Smart GridSmart Houses for a Smart Grid (pdf)Tendril

UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oiland Energy Security

The Utility Connection

Vattenfall

2009 Annual Report (pdf)

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