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The Role of the Domestic Smart Metering Infrastructure for Energy Saving and for Environmental Sustainability: Conventional/Non-conventional Use Cases and Future Prospects

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 369

Special Issue Editors

School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
Interests: energy; buildings; retrofit; building performance; energy efficiency
School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK
Interests: smart meters; smart homes; energy; buildings; retrofit; building performance; energy efficiency

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The UK government, as well as other governments worldwide, have invested substantial amounts into the development of a reliable and secure smart metering infrastructure as part of the smart cities initiative. The benefits of the smart metering rollout will eventually become apparent for the consumer/prosumer through, for example, the wider range of tariff availability, as well as the balancing of the smart grid, which needs to be prepared for the increased number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) as well as for the increase in electricity demand for heating, hot water and cooking purposes. In this Special Issue, we would like to invite articles on the use cases which utilise domestic smart metering data (electricity and/or gas) alongside additional data streams, such as internal temperature and weather data, for the development of tools which are beneficial for society, for data-driven policy making and for environmental sustainability. Furthermore, in this Special Issue, we would like to invite articles which address areas such as the cybersecurity challenges that the smart metering infrastructure currently faces and may face in the future, as well as on the potential future developments and expansion prospects of the existing smart metering infrastructure.         

Bullet point topics

(i) Access and utilisation of the electricity and gas smart metering data;

(ii) The use of smart metering data:

(ii.a) for the built environment;

(ii.b) for social and health care;

(ii.c) for energy and cost savings;

(ii.d) as an assistive tool for policy making;

(ii.e) for the development of an effective Demand Side Response (DSR) strategy in a local and national level;

(iii) Future prospects of the domestic smart metering infrastructure;

(iv) The domestic smart metering infrastructure as an integral part of Smart Cities;

(v) Home Energy Management Systems (HEMSs) and Consumer Access Devices (CADs);

(vi) Cybersecurity-related challenges of the domestic smart metering infrastructure.

Prof. Dr. William Swan
Dr. Ioannis Paraskevas
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • SMETS1&2
  • consumer access devices (CADs)
  • home energy management systems (HEMS)
  • energy saving
  • cost saving
  • smart metering data
  • data analysis
  • machine learning
  • pattern recognition
  • energy policy
  • sustainable cities
  • smart cities
  • demand side response (DSR)

Published Papers

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