GB’s Anglian Water completes initial 1.1 million smart meter rollout
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Anglian Water has finished installing its initial rollout of 1.1 million smart meters across its eastern England region, in an investment worth £153 million ($194 million).
With this, an achievement of its 2025 target ahead of time, the company reports being on track to deliver smart meters across its entire region by 2030.
Anglian Water claims the largest smart water meter rollout in Great Britain, which is being carried out with network partner Arqiva and installation specialists Kier and Clancy, following the renewal of contracts in October 2024.
As part of these agreements Anglian Water will continue to work with Kier and Clancy to install over 1,000 smart meters a day to upgrade all water meters in its service region.
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“We’re proud to have an industry-leading smart meter programme, and we’re really pleased that we’ve hit the massive achievement of completing our goal of 1.1 million smart meters installed,” commented Don Maher, director of Customer and Wholesale Services for Anglian Water.
“Our programme puts people in touch with how much water they’re using down to daily or even hourly level, which helps them take control of their household bills and find leaks that are costing them money. We publish approximately 8.4 million of these meter readings in customers’ portals every day. It’s just one of the ways we’re looking after the environment while protecting water for future generations.”
Smart meters are regarded as a key part of Anglian Water’s demand management strategy to reduce long-term per capita consumption.
With the rollout to date almost half of the company’s meters are now smart.
Customers are enabled to have better visibility of their water usage to manage their household bills as well as reduce their water consumption.
This increased visibility has also helped Anglian Water engineers find and fix an average of 14l of water per property per day in leaks since the rollout started – the equivalent of more than 14 million l of water daily and ahead of the 9.4 million l per day target.
Anglian Water, which serves 4.3 million people with water supply, is deploying Sensus smart water meters.
By 2030 its per capita consumption is planned to be reduced to 124l/day, towards Ofwat’s 2050 target of 110l/d.
