Metering

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End consumers, producers and storage facility operators must use smart meters that measure consumption from the electricity network at 15-minute intervals. 80% of metering systems in a network area must be smart meters by 1 January 2028. The remaining 20% may remain in use until the end of their lifespan. The introduction of smart meters gives rise to various regulatory issues, particularly in relation to the measurement of consumption and feed-in to the grid from solutions used for self-consumption by several participants and/or sale at the place of production. ElCom has issued various decisions on these issues and has published a notification on the self-consumption model. It has also answered many enquiries on these issues, the most important of which are published in the regularly updated Q&As on the Energy Strategy 2050. The documents referred to above can be found in the relevant sections of ElCom’s website.