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The first edition of Metering & Smart Energy International offers a view into the development of smart cities around the world, with particular reference to the role of the utility within the environs of the city of hte future. Our regional focus on India provides insights into the Uday programme implemented by the Government of India, which aims to relieve Discos of their mounting debt and put them in a financially secure position, enabling them to focus on service delivery, instead of debt ...

The first edition of Metering & Smart Energy International offers a view into the development of smart cities around the world, with particular reference to the role of the utility within the environs of the city of hte future. Our regional focus on India provides insights into the Uday programme implemented by the Government of India, which aims to relieve Discos of their mounting debt and put them in a financially secure position, enabling them to focus on service delivery, instead of debt ...

I am always amazed when we come to December and I realise that an entire year has once again sped past. And what a year it has been! While preparing the 2017 year in review feature, I had the opportunity to look over our most read news stories, along with interviewing some of our contributors to discover what impressions they were left with from 2017.

Metering & Smart Energy International is proud to announce the special report on Internet of Things

In our supplement, we consider the role of ‘as a service’ opportunities for both software and storage, while our feature article on the utility innovation blueprint will keep your utility on track to manage the duality of agility versus your primary focus on reliability.

In this edition, we speak to Pallas Agerberg, Innovation Director for Alliander, about her unique role and we consider the place for artificial intelligence in the sector and whether extreme weather scenarios offer us an opportunity to improve on our utility offerings. We also speak to Switch2 about how this utility is embracing technological advancement and improving customer service in the district heating sector.

Our supplement, on data analytics, speaks to the value to be derived from advanced data analytics, and importantly, how analytics can be used to combat customer churn. In addition to the benefits of better insights, which drive better utility maintenance and improved outage responses, analytics, if properly utilised, can be an effective weapon against revenue losses and theft.

This, our annual European focused edition, is the biggest edition of Metering & Smart Energy International ever produced. This is quite a milestone and is in no small part due to the very hard work of the support and sales team behind the Metering & Smart Energy International team.

Our special report examines the role of components within products but also as part of a system; and considers the role of batteries, sensors, switches, reclosers, protective relays, and communications devices across our utility sector.

This edition is packed with insights into ComEd’s efforts to test the use of battery storage technology to reduce the impact of power outages in residential areas; the reform of the Mexican power market and the implementation of the Estrategia Nacional de Energia; and efforts by Nigeria to save privatization efforts and bring sector reform back on track.

A comprehensive examination of trends in the M2M sector, with a focus on artificial intelligence and how machine learning is changing the game.

Gain an understanding of the dynamics impacting the storage and utility sectors in Asia, along with a thought provoking insight into why utilities and analytics programmes so often seem at odds. Reacquaint yourself with the business case for the newest iteration of the utility’s cash register and understand what the phenomenal growth of smart gas meters means.