The roll-out of smart meters in the UK is expected to help lower carbon emissions in homes and businesses. With the transparency and simplicity they will 
provide to customers with regards to both billing and understanding energy usage, it is easy to appreciate how smart meters will help the UK to lower its overall carbon emissions and meet the targets it has in place to cut these by 12.5 per cent by 2012. Prosenjit Dutta, head of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) practice within the utilities division of Infosys and Kush Sharma, utilities lead for UK & Europe, Infosys, explain
Commitment has already been shown by one of the country’s largest utility retailers, British Gas, which has plans to install smart meters in 10 millions homes by the end of 2012, and already nPower and EDF have pledged to do the same. Therefore, it is clear to see the UK is in good stead to meet its 2020 target.
efficiently, but also provide a built-in mechanism for measuring saving results, says Alex Rapoport, director of product marketing at Powersines
South Glasgow Hospital, the largest ever standby power installation in Scotland
farm projects will largely give way to turbines of 5 MW and above, operating in arrays producing hundreds of MW each. Dave Knapper, general manager, High Voltage Products at ABB UK, reports
growing environmental concern. The European Union (EU), for example, introduced its ‘20-20-20’ targets in 2008, which call for a 20% reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions based on 1990 levels; 20% of energy sources to come from renewable energy; and a 20% reduction in primary energy usage; all by 2020. Bastian Fischer, vice president of industry strategy at Oracle Utilities explains
