Sweden
Description: National market
Metering Conditions: the market is overseen by Swedac – www.swedac.se – responsible for regulation and specification of meters. There are other regulators with responsibility for monitoring and managing the energy markets.
Water meters are the responsibility of the local municipality.
Population: 9 million
Households: 4 million
Meter Populations:
Electricity:
- Total: 5,400,000
- Domestic: 5,200,000
- Industrial/Commercial: 200,000
- Prepayment: None
Gas:
- Total:
- Domestic:
- Industrial/Commercial:
- Prepayment:
Water:
- Total:
- Domestic:
- Industrial/Commercial:
- Prepayment:
Heat:
- Total:
- Domestic:
- Industrial/Commercial:
- Prepayment:
Smart Metering Notes: (Collected from a Variety of Sources)
Sweden completed the implementation of ‘smart’ metering in July 2009. This was started in 1996, principally to enable customers to switch between the 165 suppliers.
A national law requires electricity distributors to bill customers to an actual read on a monthly basis. Commercial and Industrial customers should be billed to readings taken on a daily basis, including an hourly consumption profile.
- Gas penetration is only 2% – heat is mainly provided by district heating solutions.
- The newly implemented “smart” meters are generally relatively basic, in response to the simple monthly read policy which required them
- no prepayment functionality
- no complex or configuration of tariffs
- no in home communications/display
- A number of utilities will have deployed more advanced functionality, but there is no national standard to pull together a minimum functional description, so meters provided by distributors may differ by region.
- Total project cost is estimated to have been 1.7 billion Euros
- A number of small municipal utilities worked together as a consortium of 33 to combine their buying power to represent around 20% of the Swedish market – the Svenska Matsamarbetet (SAMS) consortium
- Swedish smart metering implementations tend to favour, as with other Nordic countries, GPRS or GSM solutions
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