New research,published today by IMS Research,has shown that within the next 3 years 65%of UK homes will have a smart meter installed.This is a sharp increase from last year's figures of 4.23%of homes in the UK that had a smart meter installed.
By comparison,other European countries already have a high rate of installation;94%of Italy's homes have a smart meter,as do 70%of domestic premises in Nordic countries.
Speaking about the findings,Mark England,CEO of Sentec,the installer who commissioned the report,said:"The deregulated structure of UK market is uniquely challenging for rapid and co-ordinated action in a large scale initiative like this and we believe that smart meter deployment in 65 percent of UK homes by 2015 is not possible.There is a great deal of work still to do to finalise the technical and regulatory framework for smart metering."
