Smart metering update

Andrew Neves

4 August 20111 | Energy Networks Association - DCMF

Overview

4 August 20112 | Energy Networks Association – DCMF

• Government is pushing smart metering as a key part of its climate change policy

• Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) is leading, and has established large team in Whitehall

• Many work groups and sub-groups have been established, including a ‘hot house’ to finalise meter specifications

• Both Energy Retail Association (ERA) and Energy Networks Association (ENA) are very active

• Roll out by 2014 for profile class 5-8 customers, and 2020 for remaining non half-hourly customers

• 50 million meters to be replaced (gas and electricity)

Smart Meters Programme: Stakeholder & Industry Advisory & Working Groups

SRO

Design Authority PMOProgramme Director

DECC Smart Meters Projects

Implementation Co-ordination Group

Smart Meters Design Group

(Alan Claxton ENA)

Business Requirements &

Process Re-design

Privacy Advisory Group

Security Technical Expert Group

Consumer Advisory Group

DCC Group

Roll-out & Consumer

Engagement Group

Overall Design Advisory Group (ODAG)

Ministerial Implementation Co-ordination Group

DECC Smart Meters Advisory Groups

DECC Smart Meters Working Groups

ESoDR*

Tarriffs

Pre Payment Meters PPM

Elec Meter Varianrts

HANHome Area

Network

Installation & Maintenance

Difficult Property Types

Gas Meter Variants

Access to Data

IHDIn Home Display

Micro-generation

Normative references

Gas meter battery life

Architecture

Application Layer

Use Cases

Data modelling

Inter-operability

User Requirements Specification

DCC Licensing & obligations

DCC Cost Recovery / Incentives/charging

DCC Licence ApplicationsRegulations

DCC Procurement

Strategy

DCC Cost adoption criteria & values

WAN User Requirement

s

Planning Delivery and Operations Group (PDOG) DCC Smart Energy Code

DCC Roles & at customer

premises

DCC Non-Domestic

issues

Consequential changes –

codes & licences

Roll-out operational

issues

Consumer Engageme

nt

Benefits Realisation

Privacy & Data

Access

*ESoDR = extended Statement of design Requirements

Data from smart meters

4 August 20114 | Energy Networks Association – DCMF

• Data Communications Company (DCC) will be established to communicate with all domestic smart meters on behalf of industry parties

• DCC will not have a monopoly for non-domestic meters

• Smart meters will measure and hold ‘period consumption’

• Significant privacy issues around which parties see what granularity of consumption data

• Smart meters will provide many types of alerts (e.g. power lost, terminal cover open, maximum demand exceeded, etc.)

• Strict rules (as yet unspecified) will govern which parties can program meters or receive alerts and data

Implications for DUoS charges

4 August 20115 | Energy Networks Association – DCMF

• Supplier tariffs likely to become more diverse and dynamic

• This may make ‘de-linking’ increasingly attractive?

• Profile class 5-8 customers will be early movers to smart metering – see ‘P272’ and ‘DCP103’

• Move from profiled NHH data to ‘real’ profiles brings potential for more focused DUoS price signals

• Site-level billing of all DUoS may be feasible – but very significant issues surround this

• Tony McEntee floated some ideas at the last meeting

• DCMF should build on these and start debating options