A group of experts at this week’s Smartgrid Roundtable event said that smart grids are “critically important” to allow a higher percentage of renewables within the UK’s energy supply.
The UK government announced in 2008 that all British homes must have a smart meter installed by the year 2020.
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Homeowners who install solar panels or wind turbines on their property would be able to measure how much energy they are feeding back into the power g rid. This requires the system to account for the masses of people who would take advantage of these feed-in tariffs.
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