British Gas plans smart meter roll-out
By editor | 06 Apr, 2010
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British Gas has announced plans to accelerate the roll-out of its smart meter programme and install two million in customers' homes by 2012 – eight years ahead of the Government's target date for all homes.

The energy giant has also unveiled the companies it will be working with to reach this target, including Vodafone and smart meter manufacturer Landis+Gyr. The Zigbee Smart Energy global wireless home area network standard will be used to link up the in-home devices.

MD Phil Bentley commented: "At British Gas, we already have the largest smart meter trial in the country. We want all our customers to have smart meters as soon as possible, so they can take advantage of this technology and use it to help them cut their energy use, carbon emissions and fuel bills.

"This is why we recently launched our new smart metering business, and began recruitment of our 2,600 new smart energy experts who will support the roll-out. And this is why we are today announcing a partnership with a group of world-leading companies, with whom we will work to deliver our ambitious target of two million more smart meters in customers' homes by 2012. We are also sharing our smart meter standards with the rest of the industry."





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