Bglobal supplies Npower trial
SMART metering company Bglobal has signed a new deal to supply the energy company Npower.
Npower plans to install the meters in the homes of its micro-generation customers – those who create, as well as consume, energy and send the surplus back into the national grid.
Blackburn-based Bglobal said the meters enable customers to build a picture of their consumption and help them to identify ways of saving energy.
The meters also show the level of energy being exported back to the grid, and the amount customers will be paid for it.
The trial is part of Npower’s wider roll out of intelligent products and services for customers before the full nationwide deployment of smart meters by 2020.
The roll-out will begin late in December 2009 to more than half of Npower’s micro-generation customers who export energy from solar, wind, micro CHP or hydro sources.
Bglobal chief executive Anthony Barnes said: “Smart meters will enable micro-generation users to effectively and efficiently manage their energy data for the first time and we look forward to further developing our technology as a result of this exciting programme.”
Louisa Gilchrist, micro-generation manager at Npower, said: “For the first time our micro-generation customers will be able to see exactly how much energy they are exporting back onto the grid and its value. They will also have detailed information as to how much energy they are consuming in the home, something common to all smart meters. This roll-out has the potential to have a real impact on the uptake of micro-generation in Britain.”
