Annexes to COM(2014)356 - Benchmarking smart metering deployment in the EU-27 with a focus on electricity - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2014)356 - Benchmarking smart metering deployment in the EU-27 with a focus on electricity. |
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| document | COM(2014)356  |
| date | June 17, 2014 |
[2] ‘Smart metering system’ or ‘intelligent metering system’ means an electronic system that can measure energy, consumption, providing more information than a conventional meter, and can transmit and receive data using a form of electronic communication — definition from Article 2, point 28 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU), OJ L315, 14.11.2012, p.1.
[3] EU-27: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Croatia was not covered in the analysis as the main data collection was carried out before its accession.
[4] Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU).
[5] ‘Demand response’ is to be understood as voluntary changes by end-consumers of their usual electricity use patterns - in response to market signals (such as time-variable electricity prices or incentive payments) or following the acceptance of consumers' bids (on their own or through aggregation) to sell in organised energy electricity markets their will to change their demand for electricity at a given point in time. Accordingly, demand response should be neither involuntary nor unremunerated. (Staff Working Document 05.11.2013).
[6] Interpretative Note on Directive 2009/72/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and Directive 2009/73/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas, Staff Working Paper, 22.01.2010.
[7] Data on the United Kingdom-Great Britain (UK-GB) are discussed throughout the report as representative of the UK. The region of Northern Ireland (NI), in terms of overall metering points, represent a very small proportion of the overall UK figure – around 1.5% of the UK total - and therefore it is not reflective of the Member State position as a whole. Furthermore, it is rather difficult to generate data which are representative of the whole UK due to the varying methodologies as well as differences in the energy markets between NI and GB. The specific NI position is also captured as it is incorporated in the respective Country Fiches’ Staff Working Document accompanying this report.
[8] Hungary notified the Commission services of its cost-benefit-analysis in December 2013. The current report and accompanying Staff Working Documents refer to CBA data available by the end of July 2013.
[9] The ‘discount rate’ is applied to costs and benefits of smart metering investments in the respective scenarios considered. It takes into account the point in time to which the monetary values relate and the risk or uncertainty of anticipated future cash flows. The discount rate has a significant impact on the assessment of potential smart metering investments as the costs are incurred predominantly at the beginning of the scenarios considered whereas the smart intervention often produces benefits in the long-term.
‘Cost per metering point’ and ‘benefit per metering point’ statistics are based on numbers calculated using the net present value of the respective costs (CAPEX and OPEX) and benefits.
[10] This percentage relates to the number of measurements (as part of the data consulted) that fall within the range of the average value quoted ± the standard deviation given. The data set considered for electricity relates to the positively assessed cost-benefit analyses from 16 countries that have already completed or will proceed with large-scale roll-out.
[11] Commission Recommendation 2012/148/EU, OJ L 73, 13.3.2012, p.9;
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32012H0148.
[12] European Data Protection Reform:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/120125_en.htm.
[13] M/490 Smart Grids standardisation; CEN/CENELEC/ETSI related smart grids work;
http://www.cencenelec.eu/standards/Sectors/SustainableEnergy/Management/SmartGrids/Pages/default.aspx.
[14] The European Smart Grid Task Force defines Smart Grids as electricity networks that can efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to it — generators, consumers and those that do both — in order to ensure an economically efficient, sustainable power system with low losses and high quality and security of supply and safety;
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/gas_electricity/smartgrids/doc/expert_group1.pdf.
[15] Smart Grid projects in Europe: Lessons learned and current developments —2012 update European Commission, 2013; http://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jrc-scientific-and-policy-report2013;
European Smart Metering Landscape Report, Smart Regions Deliverable 2.1, Austrian Energy Agency (AEA), 2012; http://www.smartregions.net/default.asp?sivuID=26927.
[16] COM(2012)663.
[17] i.e. Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia.
[18] i.e. Bulgaria, Cyprus and Slovenia.