Mandatory monthly metering of electricity usage for all electricity customers

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 7 July 2021

The proposition 2002/03:85, filed by the Swedish Government in 2002, passed in 2003 and mandates that, by 1 July 2009, electricitiy providers should have introduced monthly metering for all their customers.

 

Note: no smart meter rollout is involved in the regulation itself; however, it resulted in a large rollout of smart meters.

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