NSW Premier Morris Iemma is promising an early rollout to smart electricity meters that could use broadband over powerline, WiMax or GPRS to communicate with electricity boards -- but delays are already looming over the nascent deployment.
Powercor and CitiPower have announced UXC and Bilfinger Berger Services as field installation partners for their $400 million smart meter roll-out to over a million homes.
Victorian energy company SP AusNet announced yesterday that it had chosen Motorola to build a WiMax network to connect the smart meters it is rolling out to 680,000 customers.
Victoria has announced it will start rolling out smart metering technology via energy distributors by the end of this year.
Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.
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