To 2014 get of 450,000 households have a smart power meter

The Dutch grid operators want the next two years at 450.000 households and small businesses with a smart meter. The surgery involves the operators up to and including 2014 to approximately 130 million euros in costs.

Minister Verhagen Thursday in the Amsterdam district of Watergraafsmeer given the go-ahead for the installation of the first smart energy meters in a nationwide roll-out. According to the minister, consumers and businesses that such a power meter, more energy saving because they better understand their energy consumption. So can usage statistics cross be accessed through the pc or a mobile phone. Would also energy-saving hardware and software indoors can be used, such as thermostats, which are more accurate the heating on and off.

The next two years will according to the proposed schedule of 450,000 households and small businesses with a smart meter. There are a number of criteria have been adopted: new meters are only installed when the current meter needs to be replaced, if there is new construction or large-scale renovation, or at the request of the user. In that last case, there are still installation costs. From 2014 onwards, are the smart meters to all households, but it is possible to use such meters to refuse.

According to the guidelines fixed by the government, allowed to operators every two months the meter reading to read. That is done in most cases via gprs. In this case, only the total consumption are requested. Also, should a power company the collected data without the consent of the buyer not to resell or pass it to other parties.