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Smart grid is one of the latest buzzwords in the energy sector and has become a catchphrase for politicians, academics and industry leaders alike. The vision is to exploit the latest technology to address the immense challenge of securing the energy supply in the 21st century. The concept of smart grids is at times put forward as a revolutionary solution to a wide array of problems, ranging from the West's dependency on Middle Eastern oil to global warming. A more realistic expectation is however that smart grid technology will contribute to improved efficiency and reliability in energy distribution and better optimisation in allocation of resources and utilisation of assets. Smart metering is widely regarded as the cornerstone for future smart grids. In the history of metering technology, smart metering represents the third stage in a chain of developments spanning more than 100 years. Manually read meters have been around since the advent of the utility industry in the late 19th century.
Over the last three decades, automated meter reading (AMR) based on one-way or two-way communication has evolved. Smart metering broadens the scope of AMR beyond just meter readings with additional features enabled by two-way data communication. A smart metering solution generally delivers a range of applications using an infrastructure comprising networked meters, communication networks and data collection and management systems. Smart electricity meters are being introduced all over the developed world. Europe had an early start in the 2000s when Enel completed the first nationwide rollout of smart meters to more than 30 million customers in Italy. Later deployments followed in the Nordic countries and at the beginning of the 2010s, Spain, France and the UK are assuming the positions as the most active markets. Berg Insight forecasts that the installed base of smart electricity meters in EU23+2 will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19.4 percent between 2010 and 2016 to reach 130.5 million units at the end of the period. Annual shipments of smart electricity meters are anticipated to exceed 20 million units in the mid-2010s.
A majority of the countries in Western Europe have adopted a policy of regulation-driven introduction of smart meters. Italy and Sweden were first to complete their rollouts that began in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Finland and Norway will require smart meters for all electricity customers by 2013 and 2016 respectively, while France, Spain, the UK and Ireland have set targets to achieve full penetration in the final years of this decade. That will also be the case in the Netherlands, where the plans to introduce smart meters met strong opposition on the grounds of being invasive to privacy and were delayed for several years before they were finally approved by the parliament in late 2010. Germany on the other hand has only implemented some weaker regulatory drivers and the federal government has declared that it has no intention to push for a quick nationwide rollout. Iberia is the new focal point for smart metering in Europe. Following a build-up phase in 2010, massive installations will take off in Spain during 2011, as Endesa goes ahead with a fullscale rollout. Iberdrola is performing major pilots involving hundreds of thousands of customers and activity is also picking up at Gas Natural Fenosa. Furthermore EDP considers a nationwide rollout in Portugal that can be coordinated with the mandatory deployment by its distribution network subsidiary in Spain. Berg Insight forecasts that annual shipments of smart electricity meters in Iberia will peak at around 5 million units per year during 2016–2017 before the market gradually slows down in the final years before the installation deadline in 2018. France and the UK became active markets in 2010 as ERDF and British Gas entered the initial phases of their smart meter installation programmes.
ERDF plans to start with a massive nationwide rollout from 2012 and will need to deploy around 6 million units per year between 2014 and 2017 in order to fulfil the regulatory obligations that will take effect in 2018. The UK is currently in a build-up phase, preparing for a mass rollout to nearly 30 million customers during 2014–2019. British Gas and E.ON have committed to the installation of at least one million smart electricity meters each before the mass rollout begins. Berg Insight expects that all major energy suppliers in the UK will switch to smart meters for new connections and planned replacements prior to the mass rollout. Ireland plans a nationwide rollout of smart meters starting in 2014.
Table of Contents
Executive summary 1
1 Electricity, gas and district heating distribution in Europe ..3
1.1 Energy industry players ..3
1.2 Electricity market 5
1.3 Gas market .10
1.4 District heating market ..13
2 Smart metering 15
2.1 Introduction to smart grids .15
2.2 Smart metering .18
2.2.1 Smart metering applications .18
2.2.2 Smart metering infrastructure 22
2.2.3 Benefits of smart metering .25
2.3 Project strategies .27
2.3.1 System design and sourcing 27
2.3.2 Rollout and integration .28
2.3.3 Implementation and operation .29
2.3.4 Communicating with customers .29
2.4 Regulatory issues 30
2.4.1 Models for the introduction of smart meters .30
2.4.2 Standardisation initiatives ..31
2.4.3 Individual rights issues .34
3 PLC and wireless communication technologies 37
3.1 PLC versus wireless communication .37
3.1.1 PLC point-to-multipoint 37
3.1.2 Wireless Mesh point-to-multipoint ..38
3.1.3 Cellular networks point-to-point ..40
3.1.4 Home area networking .41
3.2 PLC technology and vendors 41
3.2.1 Industry associations and standards 42
3.2.2 Tier one semiconductor companies .44
3.2.3 Advanced Digital Design .46
3.2.4 CURRENT 47
3.2.5 Power Plus Communications 47
3.2.6 Yitran Communications 48
3.3 Wireless technology and vendors ..48
3.3.1 Industry initiatives and standards 49
3.3.2 Cinterion ..52
3.3.3 Coronis .52
3.3.4 Develco .53
3.3.5 Ember 53
3.3.6 Radiocrafts .54
3.3.7 Sierra Wireless ..54
3.3.8 Sigma Designs .54
3.3.9 Telit .55
4 Smart metering industry players .57
4.1 Meter vendors 57
4.1.1 Landis+Gyr 58
4.1.2 Itron 63
4.1.3 Elster ..66
4.1.4 Aidon .68
4.1.5 Apator 68
4.1.6 Circutor .69
4.1.7 Diehl Metering ..69
4.1.8 EDMI ..70
4.1.9 EMH Metering 70
4.1.10 GE Energy ..71
4.1.11 Hager .72
4.1.12 Iskraemeco .72
4.1.13 Janz 73
4.1.14 Kamstrup .73
4.1.15 Sagemcom .74
4.1.16 Secure Meters ..75
4.1.17 Sensus ..76
4.1.18 ZIV ..76
4.1.19 ZPA Smart Energy ..77
4.2 Smart grid solution providers 77
4.2.1 ADD Grup 77
4.2.2 Echelon 78
4.2.3 Embriq ..79
4.2.4 Enel 80
4.2.5 ISA ..80
4.2.6 Metrima .81
4.2.7 NURI Telecom ..81
4.2.8 Remote Energy Monitoring 82
4.2.9 Sentec ..83
4.2.10 Siemens 83
4.2.11 Silver Spring Networks .84
4.2.12 Smart Grid Norway .85
4.2.13 Trilliant ..85
4.2.14 Tropos Networks .86
4.2.15 Tritech Technologies .87
4.2.16 Xemex 88
4.3 MDMS and middleware vendors .88
4.3.1 Ecologic Analytics ..88
4.3.2 eMeter ..89
4.3.3 EnergyICT 89
4.3.4 Görlitz 90
4.3.5 Netinium ..91
4.3.6 Oracle 91
4.3.7 OSIsoft ..92
4.3.8 Powel .92
4.3.9 Process Vision ..93
4.3.10 SAP .93
4.4 System integrators and managed service providers .94
4.4.1 IT industry players ..94
4.4.2 Telecom industry players 96
5 Market analysis .101
5.1 Market drivers and restraints ..102
5.1.1 Macroeconomic factors .102
5.1.2 Regulatory environment 104
5.1.3 Competitive environment .106
5.1.4 Industry standards 107
5.2 Smart metering market forecast 108
5.2.1 Geographical markets 109
5.2.2 Capital expenditure forecast ..111
5.3 Technology trends 114
5.4 Industry analysis 116
6 Market profiles: Northern Europe 119
6.1 Sweden ..121
6.1.1 Electricity distribution industry structure ..121
6.1.2 Metering regulatory environment .122
6.1.3 Smart metering market developments ..123
6.1.4 The outcome of a regulation driven rollout .126
6.2 Denmark 128
6.2.1 Electricity distribution industry structure ..128
6.2.2 Metering regulatory environment .130
6.2.3 Smart metering market developments ..130
6.3 Finland 132
6.3.1 Electricity distribution industry structure ..132
6.3.2 Metering regulatory environment .136
6.3.3 Smart metering market developments ..136
6.4 Norway 138
6.4.1 Electricity distribution industry structure ..138
6.4.2 Metering regulatory environment .139
6.4.3 Smart metering market developments ..141
7 Market profiles: Western Europe .143
7.1 Austria .144
7.1.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 144
7.1.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering market developments .145
7.2 Belgium ..146
7.2.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 146
7.2.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering market developments .147
7.3 France .148
7.3.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 148
7.3.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering market developments .149
7.4 Germany 150
7.4.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 151
7.4.2 Metering regulatory environment .153
7.4.3 Smart meter market developments .154
7.5 Ireland .156
7.5.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 156
7.5.2 Nationwide program for deployment of smart meters ..157
7.6 The Netherlands 158
7.6.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 158
7.6.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart meter market developments 160
7.7 United Kingdom .162
7.7.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 162
7.7.2 Metering regulatory environment .165
7.7.3 Plans for a nationwide smart metering system .166
7.7.4 Early smart meter deployments 167
8 Market profiles: Southern Europe 169
8.1 Italy ..170
8.1.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 170
8.1.2 Metering regulatory environment .172
8.1.3 Smart metering market developments ..173
8.2 Spain 174
8.2.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 174
8.2.2 Metering regulatory environment .175
8.2.3 Smart metering market developments ..176
8.3 Portugal .178
8.3.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 178
8.3.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering market developments .179
8.4 Malta 180
8.4.1 Utility industry structure .180
8.4.2 National smart grid project ..181
9 Market profiles: Central Eastern Europe .183
9.1 Bulgaria ..184
9.1.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 184
9.1.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering market developments .185
9.2 Czech Republic .186
9.2.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 186
9.2.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering pilots .187
9.3 Poland .188
9.3.1 Electricity and gas distribution industry structure 188
9.3.2 Metering regulatory environment and smart metering projects ..189
9.4 Slovenia .190
9.4.1 Electricity industry structure and metering regulatory environment ..190
9.4.2 Smart metering projects 191
10 Case studies: Smart metering projects in Europe .193
10.1 Enel ..193
10.1.1 The Telegestore project in Italy .193
10.1.2 The Meters and More initiative ..195
10.1.3 Endesa's smart metering project in Spain ..196
10.2 ERDF 197
10.2.1 The Linky Programme 197
10.2.2 System development and full-scale pilot .199
10.3 Iberdrola 200
10.3.1 The PRIME project ..200
10.3.2 Smart metering projects in Spain and the US ..201
10.4 RWE .202
10.4.1 Regional DSO operations in Germany ..202
10.4.2 The Mülheim Zählt project 203
10.5 Fortum 204
10.5.1 Smart meter rollout in Sweden ..204
10.5.2 Smart meter rollout in Finland 206
10.6 Energa 206
10.7 ESB ..208
10.7.1 Communication technology trials 209
10.7.2 Consumer behaviour trials ..210
10.7.3 Cost benefit analysis ..211
10.8 Smart metering projects in the UK ..214
10.8.1 Ofgem's Energy Demand Research Project ..215
10.8.2 British Gas' early rollout to residential customers 215
10.8.3 Candidate technologies for the DCC's smart metering network .216
Glossary 219
List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Top 25 energy companies, by turnover (EU23+2 2010) ..4
Figure 1.2: Electricity generation and consumption data (EU27 2010) .5
Figure 1.3: Electricity market statistics (EU23+2 2010) .7
Figure 1.4: Top 25 electricity DSOs (EU27+2 2011) 9
Figure 1.5: Gas market statistics (EU23+2 2010) ..11
Figure 1.6: Top 25 gas DSOs (EU27+2 2010) .12
Figure 1.7: District heating market statistics (EU23+2 2007) 13
Figure 2.1: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle 21
Figure 2.2: Smart metering infrastructure 23
Figure 2.3: Examples of smart electricity meters .24
Figure 2.4: OPEN Meter project partners 33
Figure 3.1: PLC point-to-multipoint communication infrastructure .38
Figure 3.2: Wireless Mesh point-to-multipoint communication infrastructure ..39
Figure 3.3: Cellular point-to-point communication infrastructure 40
Figure 3.4: Selected members of ZigBee Alliance by industry 50
Figure 4.1: Energy meter vendor company data (World/Europe, FY2010) 58
Figure 4.2: Landis+Gyr smart metering product portfolio (Europe 2011) .59
Figure 4.3: Itron smart metering product portfolio (Europe 2011) .64
Figure 5.1: Household power consumption and retail prices (EU23+2 2010) .103
Figure 5.2: Mass rollout period for smart electricity meters by country 105
Figure 5.3: Smart meter shipments and penetration rate (EU23+2 2010–2016) .108
Figure 5.4: Smart meter shipments by region (EU23+2 2010–2016) 110
Figure 5.5: Smart metering capital expenditure forecast (EU23+2 2010–2016) .112
Figure 5.6: Estimated capital cost for some smart metering projects in Europe .113
Figure 5.7: Breakdown of costs for smart metering projects in Western Europe 114
Figure 6.1: Smart meter contracts by country (Northern Europe 2010) 119
Figure 6.2: SM-contracts in the Nordic region by meter supplier and contractor (2011) 120
Figure 6.3: Top 10 electricity DSOs (Sweden, 2011) ..122
Figure 6.4: SM contracts awarded by top 10 DSOs in Sweden 124
Figure 6.5: SM vendor selection of medium sized DSOs in Sweden (2009) .125
Figure 6.6: Features of smart meters in Sweden ..126
Figure 6.7: Communication technologies of smart meters in Sweden .127
Figure 6.8: Top 10 electricity DSOs (Denmark, 2011) 129
Figure 6.9: Major SM projects in Denmark (June 2011) 131
Figure 6.10: Top 10 electricity DSOs (Finland, 2011) .133
Figure 6.11: Top 50 SM contracts in Finland (June 2011) ..134
Figure 6.12: Top 10 electricity DSOs (Norway, 2011) 139
Figure 6.13: Major SM projects in Norway (June 2011) 142
Figure 7.1: Major smart electricity metering projects in Western Europe (June 2011) .143
Figure 7.2: Top 10 electricity and gas DSOs (Austria, 2011) .145
Figure 7.3: Electricity and gas network operators (Belgium, 2011) 147
Figure 7.4: Top 50 electricity DSOs (Germany, 2011) 152
Figure 7.5: Major smart metering projects in Germany (2011) .155
Figure 7.6: Electricity and gas DSOs (Netherlands, 2011) ..159
Figure 7.7: Electricity DSOs (UK, 2011) .163
Figure 7.8: Gas DSOs (UK, 2010) .164
Figure 7.9: Domestic electricity and gas retailer market shares (UK, 2010) ..164
Figure 7.10: Key milestones for the UK smart metering programme .167
Figure 8.1: Major smart electricity metering projects in Southern Europe (June 2011) 169
Figure 8.2: Top 20 electricity and gas DSOs (Italy, 2011) 171
Figure 8.3: Major electricity and gas DSOs (Spain, 2011) ..175
Figure 8.4: Top 5 DSOs (Portugal, 2011) .179
Figure 9.1: Smart electricity metering projects in Central Eastern Europe (June 2011) ..183
Figure 9.2: Electricity DSOs and smart meters under contract (Bulgaria, 2011) .185
Figure 9.3: Top 5 DSOs (Czech Republic, 2011) . 187
Figure 9.4: Electricity DSOs (Poland, 2011) 189
Figure 9.5: Electricity DSOs (Slovenia, 2011) .191
Figure 10.1: Telegestore annual operational data (Italy, 2010) .194
Figure 10.2: Conceptual system architechture for ERDF's smart metering system ..198
Figure 10.3: Estimated cost of Energa's smart metering project .207
Figure 10.4: Comparision of data collection performance for PLC/RF/GPRS 210
Figure 10.5: Calculated NPV for smart metering rollout options in Ireland .211
Figure 10.6: Estimated cost for smart electricity meters and network equipment ..212
Figure 10.7: Estimated overhead costs for smart metering in Ireland ..213
Figure 10.8: Estimated capital cost for a smart metering rollout in Ireland .214
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