Instantly immediately after the Passover getaway, Israel Electric powered Corporation (IEC) will start off rolling out good electrical energy meters during Israel. 200,000 electronic meters will be installed per year for 5 several years, for a total of a million meters. The cost of the project is in the hundreds of thousands and thousands of shekels.

The providers that won IEC’s tender for putting in the new meters are Afcon and Tadal. The companies will at first switch previous meters in Rishon LeZion, Herzliya, Petah Tikva, Hadera, and Ashdod.

The new meters will allow IEC to implement the reform calling for opposition in the electric power provide sector. Dozens of personal suppliers have just lately been approved to contend in the buyer electricity distribution section, even though transmission will remain the exclusive maintain of IEC. Shoppers in a setting up in which a clever meter has been mounted will be able to leave IEC and obtain electrical power by way of a person of the new suppliers.

In get to contend for electricity customers, the personal suppliers will be in a position to provide numerous benefits. One particular of the main types that the intelligent meters will aid is a variable tariff depending on time of working day and time, making it possible for consumption to be diverted from peak hours. Beneath the reform arrangement intended to direct to the privatization of the power offer marketplace, IEC itself will in the beginning be barred from competing above phrases with the new suppliers.

Not like present analog meters, which have to be read on web site by IEC personnel, the new meters are examine remotely. They send electricity intake information continually, and have two-way interaction with central techniques. It will therefore be attainable to evaluate electricity consumption by the hour, and not just a every month whole, and to offer special discounts accordingly. In addition, customers will be ready to see their electrical power usage facts digitally.

Again in 2017, IEC commenced a pilot plan to set up wise meters in neighborhoods in Netanya, Jerusalem, and Beersheva, though in Modi’in all meters have been replaced with the new kinds. In addition, considering that November 2021, IEC has set up smart meters when connecting each new construction task to the grid.

The just one million smart meters to be installed in the coming years will be free of charge. Everyone who needs to have a wise meter put in but whose property is not incorporated in IEC’s approach can get a single independently setting up from this August, for a 1-time payment of NIS 223.

Moshe Cohen, acting VP of Community Services at IEC, said, “This is IEC’s most substantial undertaking for the coming a long time. It will place Israel on a par with the most innovative nations in the planet, and in the future will offer the company’s customers with facts in serious time and with resources to control ability utilization intelligently and the right way, for residences and organizations.”

Printed by Globes, Israel company news – en.globes.co.il – on April 18, 2022.

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