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Opportunities presented by smart meters and the connected home

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 23 May 2018
  • 12:23 - 12:23
  • Duration: 14 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Jun 2018
  • Location: Customer Solutions Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

The smart meter rollout represents many challenges for suppliers. But as it gathers pace, the opportunities attached to the data that fully capable smart meters, deployed on a large scale, could open up to utilities are becoming more tangible.

Consumption data from meters, coupled with other innovations for the connected home or electric vehicles, could unlock boundless diversification avenues for companies that are nimble enough, and smart enough in themselves.

What barriers still stand before the scale-deployment of SMETS2 meters, with their advanced smart capabilities? And what moves are market participants already taking to capture the full value of smart meters as enablers of a transformed customer relationship?

Chair: Neil Pennington, Founder, Pennovate

Keywords:
  • GDPR
  • climate change
  • cloud migration
  • cyber defence
  • data governance
  • decarbonisation
  • electric vehicle
  • energy
  • energy crisis
  • energy sector
  • fuel bank
  • npower
  • power consumption
  • priority services
  • renewable
  • smart meter
  • smart meter data
  • water sector

Channels

Power

Power

Speakers

  • Neil Pennington

    Neil Pennington

    Pennovate, Founder

    Neil is an innovator; passionate and excited by the potential for technology to transform the experiences and connections between people and organisations for good.Following a career in the Energy Industry including BG, PwC, IBM, United Utilities, npower, Innogy, latterly as Smart Programme Director and UK Innovation Director, Neil has for the last 3 years been involved with early stage businesses in Blockchain and Digital Identity, including micropayments, messaging and decentralised energy with Rivetz, DISC, Grid Singularity and the Energy Web Foundation.Neil is also an advocate for the ID2020 Summit, whose mission is to help solve issues caused through the lack of legal identity within the most vulnerable of people across the globe, and is a frequent speaker and writer on blockchain, identity and the impact of technology on the way we live our lives.Neil has a BSc (hons) in Physics, a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from London Business School.
  • Jennifer  Major

    Jennifer Major

    SAS, Head of IoT

    Jennifer has spent her career at SAS working as an analytics consultant in a range of different industry sectors including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, media, services and government. Her job is to help organisations to create actionable insight from data. Most recently, she has been focused on the energy sector: Jennifer finds Energy Utilities particularly fascinating due to the complex dynamics of having to balance reliability and cost against the increasingly urgent need to transition to renewable energy sources. The innovation required to balance increasingly volatile energy supply and demand got Jennifer seriously interested in the potential of using IoT data to help manage energy – this includes the whole ‘smart’ paradigm of Smart Grid, Smart Homes and Smart Cities.Given huge potential for harnessing IoT data and analytics across most industry sectors, Jennifer recently moved to a new role heading up the IoT practice for SAS UK & Ireland.
  • TF

    Toby Ferenczi

    OVO, Director of strategy

    Toby is our Director of Strategy. Prior to his current role, Toby was COO and MD of VCharge, an award winning tech company acquired by OVO Group in 2016. Before joining VCharge, Toby was CEO of Hanergy Solar UK, one of Europe’s largest residential solar installers. At Hanergy he launched a partnership with IKEA, making it possible to buy PV through its stores in four countries. His previous experience includes founding Engensa (a solar company sold to Hanergy) and working for General Electric in renewable energy. Toby has a PhD in solar energy from Imperial College London, and a BA and MSci in Physics from Cambridge University.
  • Aimee  Betts-Charalambous

    Aimee Betts-Charalambous

    Energy and Industrial Strategy, Smart meter technology policy lead, Department for Business

    Aimee is Technology Policy Lead in BEIS’s Smart Meter Implementation Programme. She is responsible for policy development to ensure integrated smart energy and smart home solutions, looking across the nexus of telecoms, IT and the energy sector. Before joining Government Aimee was Programme Manager at techUK, championing the Internet of Things and smart infrastructure opportunities across energy, transport and urban systems. Aimee has also worked for the Association for Decentralised Energy, covering district heating policy and was responsible for coordinating the delivery of Heat Trust, the UK’s first consumer protection standards for district heating. She was shortlisted for a Young Energy Professional Award in 2016.
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