France to EU: You're not moving fast enough on smart meters

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The French government recently issued a decree that 95% of its smart meters must be deployed by year end 2016, well ahead of the European Union's mandate of 80% deployment by 2020. The French decree says all new meters deployed from 2012 forward must be smart meters and that daily data collection is required. The decree also spells out deployment specifications and conditions, implementation, testing and interoperability and more. That amounts to more than 35 million meters, most owned by ERDF, the French utility that runs the electricity distribution network on the mainland.

Jesse Berst's Take: Could the smart meter focus be shifting to Europe? Over there smart meter roll-outs are almost entirely policy mandates based on environmental and climate goals ... as opposed to the U.S. where stimulus money and DR-based rate cases are the primary drivers. 

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