Are *any* Uk Energy suppliers currently rolling out SMETS 2 Smartmeters?

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Steve_1234 wrote: »

Anyone got any news? Ovo1`s website saying that their rollout has started - but anyone know for sure if this is true - or if other suppliers are starting?

Ovo have been using Secure Liberty 100 meters for years. They were the first to use them in smart prepayment meter mode.
These meters are both SMETS1 and SMETS2 compatible. They are the same meter.
Early SMETS1 Secure meters are being adopted into the DCC and will be suitable for smart switching.The currently dumb Secure meters will therefore suddenly become smart, possibly next year if this website is believed
https://www.smartme.co.uk/technical.html

thorganby

Houbara wrote: »

Ovo have been using Secure Liberty 100 meters for years. They were the first to use them in smart prepayment meter mode.
These meters are both SMETS1 and SMETS2 compatible. They are the same meter.
Early SMETS1 Secure meters are being adopted into the DCC and will be suitable for smart switching.The currently dumb Secure meters will therefore suddenly become smart, possibly next year if this website is believed
https://www.smartme.co.uk/technical.html

Your assumptions are incorrect.

A SMETS1 meter will never operate as a SMETS2 meter, there is a reason that an end date for fitting limited functionality SMETS1 meters has been agreed.

Secure meters are not SMETS2 approved, corroborated by your link and they are not the same meter as you have incorrectly stated.

SMETS1 meters, if adopted by the DCC will connect to a new interface which is completely separate and isolated from SMETS2 for security reasons and will never operate to the SMETS2 technical specification.

Adopting SMETS1 meters onto the DCC is at best a temporary kludge to allow supplier interoperability until they are eventually replaced!

MeterMan

There is currently a hold on the installation of the SMET2 electric meter as it produces too much radio wave noise.

A large company is currently and actively fitting smet2 gas meters where a customer has a gas only account with them.