www.3news.co.nz Nearly 1.3 million households are expected to have “smart” electricity meters installed by 2012 – but the nation’s environmental watchdog today warned most of those meters will not be smart enough. “I heard mutterings that the smart meters being installed in New Zealand are actually “dumb meters”, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, said today. She said in a report tabled in Parliament today that New Zealand appears to be unusual in the developed world because the roll-out of its smart electricity meters is being done without Government control. “I recommend that the Government takes a more hands-on approach,” she said today. Smart meters that provide two-way communication between households and electricity retailers, and have potential to deliver significant environmental and consumer benefits, provided that they are capable of the right set of functions. They could help households use electricity more efficiently, reducing both consumption and peak demand, carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental impacts. One example is that people often leave their spa pool heaters switched on while the Government’s fossil-fuel fired generators kick in during drought years – because they get no indication that the price of electricity has just been sent soaring. Electricity generator-retailers are currently deploying most of the smart meters and choosing to skip the functions crucial to delivering environmental and consumer benefits …
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