09/15/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
The number of smart metering systems installed in the coming years could be far above the mandatory expansion. Service provider Gwadriga has asked around among its customers.
More than 2.4 million smart metering systems are planned to be rolled out by 2032 by customers of Gwadriga, a full-service provider of gateway administration and metering data management. According to Gwadriga, this would be three times the 800,000 systems previously assumed to be installed in the mandatory rollout. To this result a survey of the Dienstleisters comes with a customer meeting in Berlin.
Accordingly the majority of the supplying enterprises assumes at least a doubling of the Rollout numbers, some even a quintupling. At the same time, the companies tended to be cautious about the potential of one-to-many installations (1:n), Gwadriga said. In addition to the availability of the devices, the respondents see a challenge above all in process automation: "Today, one employee manages an average of 1,000 smart meter gateways; in the future, there will have to be tens of thousands. This only works if we bring significantly more intelligence into the processes," summarizes Michal Sobotka, Managing Director of Gwadriga.
In terms of process automation, the participants at the customer event saw potential for improvement above all in processes such as fault processing or replacement value formation. A missing market process was also criticized: There is currently no standardized cross-system solution for the reuse of used gateways that are still fully functional. Only scrapping is regulated, which is not acceptable in terms of sustainability.
The scenario of a "full rollout" was also discussed. Here, the participants agreed that such a rollout is currently not economically feasible. Only when something changes in the regulatory framework - such as the price cap or the possibility of using stable wireless M-Bus connections with a high number of 1:n installations - could a full rollout also become economically interesting.
Author: Katia Meyer-Tien
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