2018/0070/UK
EC/EFTA
GB United Kingdom
  • N00E - ENERGY, MINERALS, WOOD
2018-05-22
2018-02-22

Electricity Smart Metering Supply Licence Condition

Gas Smart Metering Supply Licence Condition

Great Britain Smart Metering Implementation Programme: Notification of extension to the Smart Metering Electricity and Gas Supply Licence Condition Enrolment Mandate.

The UK Government has introduced requirements ("roll-out licence conditions") on electricity and gas suppliers to install smart meters and communications hubs in their domestic and smaller non-domestic customers’ premises, with a limited number of exceptions, by the end of 2020. Installed smart meters must meet the minimum functional requirements defined in the Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications (SMETS), and communications hubs (which will be provided by a central Data and Communications Company (DCC)) as defined in the Communications Hub Technical Specifications (CHTS).

The following smart metering requirements have previously been notified to the European Commission:

• SMETS version 1 and the rollout licence conditions (2012/215/UK) – in legal force;

• SMETS version 2 (2013/0046/UK) – in legal force;

• ‘No backward step’ amendments to the rollout licence conditions (2013/596/UK) – in legal force;

• SMETS version 2 Part 2, including revised rollout licence conditions, GBCS, CHTS, CPA Security Characteristics and interoperability requirements (2014/0378/UK) – in legal force;

• SMETS Enrolment Mandate (Supply Licence Condition) (2016/0133/UK) – in legal force;

• SMETS for Data Communications Company (DCC) System Release 2. 2017/0350/UK.

This notification relates to an extension to the supply licence conditions, requiring that SMETS version 2 be installed at non-domestic premises and enrolled in the DCC system (the non-domestic Enrolment Mandate’). The Enrolment mandate for domestic premises was notified to the Commission in March 2016 (2016/0133/UK) and is now in force. This amendment will bring the non-domestic sector in line with their domestic counterparts. The amendments to the Supply Licence Conditions for Electricity and Gas to implement this decision have already been consulted on and are now in final draft format.

The UK will fulfil its obligation under Article 9 of Directive 2015/1535/EU when the draft modifications to the relevant licence conditions are laid before Parliament.