Smart meters and your business

As the technology develops we’ll be able to support smart metering in more and more areas around the country, and by 2020 all homes and businesses in Great Britain will have one fitted.

At the moment, we’re only able to offer smart meters in certain areas, with the right amount of signal and for certain meter types. As this grows we’ll be contacting all our customers to arrange installations.

We’re currently developing an online tool that will help you keep track of your energy habits and help you see where you can save. If you’ve chosen to send us half-hourly readings, you’ll be able to see when in the day your usage has been particularly high or low, so you’ll know what is costing you more energy.

For top tips on saving energy visit our energy efficiency pages.

Your smart meter calculates how much energy you’re using, what this costs over time and the cost every hour as you’re using it. It then automatically send us all this information. This means you’ll no longer receive estimated bills, so you’ll only pay for the energy you use. Only in very rare cases, the smart meter may not be able to send us an automated meter reading due to a connectivity loss or a commissioning error. If this happens, we’ll try to contact you for a manual meter reading (you can see how to read your new meter in this guide). If we don’t manage to obtain it from you, we’ll send you an estimated bill.