McKenna, E;
The future for small-scale low-carbon generation - response to Government consultation.
UCL Energy Institute: London, UK.
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• The Government intends for the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) to support the future for small-scale low-carbon generation. • The Government also intends to put consumers in control of their energy use by rolling out smart meters nation-wide. • In this response I argue that the former hinders the aims of the latter. • As it currently stands, the SEG does not provide prosumers with the energy information they need to control their energy use and make informed decisions in the market. • This is because the SEG does not require ‘behind the meter’ generation assets to be metered. • Without generation metering, households with SMETS2 smart meters who install generation are unable to know: o How much they generate o how much of their generation they self-consume, o and, perhaps most importantly, how much total energy they consume (their gross demand). • Greg Clarke has stressed the need of ‘persuading customers to reduce their energy demand’. If prosumers are unable to know how much they consume then how can they be persuaded to reduce it effectively? • I argue therefore that the SEG must make metering a requirement for all ‘behind the meter’ generation assets including solar PV and storage. • Such generation metering should also be integrated into the GB smart metering infrastructure being developed by DCC. This will provide the best overall customer experience and help reduce costs associated with this extra metering equipment. • Prosumers are not the only ones who will benefit. Generation metering will provide value to suppliers, networks, the solar trade, manufacturers of electric vehicles and batteries, the energy regulator, and to policy. • 62% of the population would like to install solar panels. This is the opportunity to ensure that the nation’s metering is fit for purpose in a world in which distributed micro-generation becomes increasingly mainstream.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The future for small-scale low-carbon generation - response to Government consultation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/energy/ |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10075768 |
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