SSE awards Logica contract for deployment of smart meters
SSE, Britain’s second largest energy supplier, has awarded Logica a contract for the provision of communication, data and pre-payment services for residential smart meter system trials in Great Britain.
We will work together to deliver the benefits of smart metering systems to SSE’s customers ahead of the mandated mass market roll-out of smart metering to domestic customers in Great Britain. This is currently expected to start in 2014, when the new Data Communications Company is available for use by the energy industry.
SSE will procure, install and maintain the smart metering systems on behalf of its customers, and Logica will deliver the communications, data and pre-payment support on behalf of SSE.
Logica supports, through its Smart Data Services and award winning Instant Energy product, over 85 percent of smart meters installed in people’s homes across Britain. We have supported the installation of over 25,000 new smart meters per month. This agreement with SSE will further increase this figure, strengthening Logica’s position in the British smart metering market.
Craig Boundy explains; “Smart Meters don’t just empower consumers to change their relationship with energy, they are integral to the creation of smart grids, creating a vital infrastructure that will enable Britain to satisfy our energy needs more sustainably, whilst helping to keep energy affordable. This contract will enhance SSE’s ability to effectively engage with its customers about their energy consumption by using the two-way communication capabilities provided by smart meters. This contract award also helps Logica to consolidate our position at the heart of Britain’s smart energy market.”
SSE is Great Britain’s second largest energy supplier and supplies electricity and gas to over 10 million domestic and business customers in the UK and Ireland. It also has a Home Services division and a retail shop network. Its key goals in energy supply are to offer consistently competitive prices over the medium term; provide market-leading products and related services to help transform energy consumption; and deliver a high quality of service to customers. With smart metering and other developments, SSE is moving towards a much more dynamic, two-way relationship with customers.
Tony House, Smart Programme Director, SSE added; “Through this partnership with Logica SSE will seek to build momentum as part of its preparations for the mandated roll-out of smart meters. SSE is aiming to build on its position as sector leader for the quality of service provided to electricity and gas customers and develop a broader, deeper energy services offering capable of being geared towards, and targeted at, the needs of individual customers.”
