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Workshop in Vienna: Smart Services – high quality hardware and intelligent software

On 7th of May 2013 a workshop about smart meter and innovative services took place in Vienna. More than 50 people attended the workshop. Aim of the half-day workshop was to share concrete experiences with services, in order to inspire the Austrian market actors. Mr. Mauri Patrikainen from L

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Recommendations for smart metering services disseminated to Finnish Members of the Parliament

The report including the recommendations to promote the innovative smart metering services have been disseminated to 200 Finnish Members of the Parliament and to their 183 assistants.

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Smart Meter Information for German Homeowners

A new information flyer for homeowners is now available in the German language. The flyer explains the concepts of smart metering, variable tariffs and smart home in a way that is easy to understand. The flyer is being distributed in the German project region of Swabia, as well as at coming Smar

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SmartRegions - Promoting Best Practices of Innovative Smart Metering Services to European Regions

Smart metering technology has a great potential to achieve cost-efficient energy savings, and its effective use is crucial in achieving the 2016 and 2020 energy efficiency targets in Europe. Moreover, smart meters play an important role in smart grids and reaching the EU 20 % renewable energy source target by 2020. However, smart meters themselves are only enabling technologies, which need to be coupled with innovative end-user services to reach better energy management through the means of rewards, automation and information.

The SmartRegions project focuses on innovative smart metering services, such as informative billing and feedback, variable tariffs and load control services, that are the most potential to bring energy savings and peak load reduction. In this, the project aims to inspire and encourage energy utilities, energy service providers as well as regulators across Europe to promote the development of these new services and to use the full potential of the new metering technology.

Smart metering technologies enable a wide variety of new and innovative reporting, feedback and demand response services, designed to provide the end-user with motivation and means for more efficient energy use. The SmartRegions project has identified best practice examples for smart metering services for residential, public and commercial buildings. These examples are listed by country in the map below. Energy saving services are marked with green dots and demand response services with red dots.

Click the map to learn more about the European best practice examples for smart metering services.



 


 

 

 

SmartRegions Tool

The SmartRegions Tool aims to support the decision makers, energy utilities and other relevant target groups in their assessment of costs and benefits related to smart meter deployment and improved energy services.

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Smart metering guide for building owners and managers

Support to households and building owners / managers on how to efficiently maximise the benefits of the innovative smart metering services.

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Events

SmartRegions at Smart Utilities Scandinavia 2013

Smart Utilities Scandinavia 2013 was organised 17th-18th April in Stockholm Sweden. Altogether 200 smart energy professionals attended the event. The speakers presented on innovation, most comprehensive smart projects and how to create long lasting economic value out of smart energy. More information: http://www.smartutilitiesscandinavia.com/

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European smart metering landscape and new innovative services and products displayed in Metering Europe 2012

SmartRegions -project has published an update to its popular European Smart Metering Landscape -report at the Metering, Billing / CRM Europe 2012 conference and exhibition in Amsterdam. The Landscape report analyses the development of smart metering and related end-user services in Europe. The report was presented by the Austrian SmartRegions partner Dr. Roland Hierzinger in a pre-conference seminar organised by the project, which proved to be an extremely popular event. Furthermore, SmarRegions presented new and innovative smart metering products and services on the event's Energy Experience exhibition area, and contributed also as a speaker in the main conference.

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