Thursday, June 5, 2014

Opposition to new electricity meters – Today’s Market

Both experts and Inspectorate are hesitant to collect all of Norway’s electricity readings in one database.

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Josef Noll, professor of Networks and Distributed Systems at the University of Oslo, warns about the risks of automatic power measurement.

– If you collect information from all the electricity meters every hour or every minute and collect this in a database, it will be like an encyclopedia of our habits, says Noll.

Wednesday DN wrote about the first major deployment of automatic power measurement (AMS) in Norway. 140,000 Bright customers in Stavanger will be offered AMS towards the end of the year.

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has asked Statnett to create a centralized database – Elhub.no – where hourly readings from all of Norway’s 2.8 million households to save.

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