Smart meters for Poland’s Tauron

A consortium including Griffin Group S.A. Energy and Apator SA are to supply smart meters to the DSO Tauron Dystrybucja in Wrocław.

The meters will have a PLC communication module in the OSGP standard. While the number of meters has not been specified,, the value of the offer amounts to approximately PLN 190 million ($42 million), with the option to increase orders by 12%.

The contract includes the delivery of smart meters along with installation, storage and clean-up works in Tauron Dystrybucja’s Smart City Wrocław area.

Apator reports that already almost 420,000 smart meters have been installed in Wroclaw, the capital of Lower Silesia, enabling residents to have access to measurement data and consumption profiles in real time, while the utility is able to monitor the quality of the low and medium voltage network on an ongoing basis.

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In other smart meter news from Poland, last year Apator and Griffin Group Energy entered an agreement to develop and produce a new generation smart meter based on the OSGP technology for delivery in Poland and the broader European market.

Under Polish legislation, smart meters are required to be installed with at least 80% of end users, including 80% of households, by the end of 2028. With only around 2 million of the approximately 16.3 million end users having smart meters, a substantial number remain to be replaced over the next seven years.

Interim targets include 15% penetration by the end of 2023, 35% by the end of 2025 and 65% by the end of 2027.

Griffin Energy Group also has reported supplying smart meters to the DSO ZEW Niedzica for the almost 200 customers in the Czorsztyn Reservoir Energy Cluster.