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The role of smart meters in enabling real-time energy services for households : the Italian case

Pitì, Alessandro ; Verticale, Giacomo ; Rottondi, Cristina ; Capone, Antonio ; Lo Schiavo, Luca

In: Energies, 2017, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 199

The Smart Meter (SM) is an essential tool for successful balancing the demand-offer energy curve. It allows the linking of the consumption and production measurements with the time information and the customer’s identity, enabling the substitution of flat-price billing with smarter solutions, such as Time-of-Use or Real-Time Pricing. In addition to sending data to the energy operators for...