It marks the start of the smart meter rollout. As soon as the market declaration is available, the clock starts ticking for the MSB to equip metering points with intelligent measuring systems (iMSys) or modern measuring devices (mME) on time.
After the industry had initially heard the starting signal, the Higher Administrative Court revoked it as a false start.
In response, the legislature, with intensive involvement of the associations, has become active and has drawn up adjustments to the Metering Point Operation Act (MsbG). The resulting amendment to the MsbG came into force on July 27, 2021, and the BSI announced at the beginning of 2022 that all the requirements for the market declaration were now met. We went into ghana consumer email list this in more detail in our blog post from December 16, 2021 .
Although everything now seems to be clear again from a legal perspective, there are still bureaucratic and technical hurdles that make a rapid rollout very difficult.
Given the long and bumpy history of the German smart meter rollout, a clean break and a bold new start sounds like good news to us. Even dena itself, at whose event Habeck announced the new start, welcomes this approach. "This is urgently needed and it should be comprehensive," says Andreas Kuhlmann, CEO of dena. It goes on to say: "Only with a digital energy system can renewable energies as well as electric cars and heat pumps be well integrated into the grid. Smart meters help to save energy and intelligent control means that you can benefit directly from cheap electricity from renewable energies." All measures in this direction are urgently needed at the moment.
The industry is reacting positively to the announced restart. So far, however, it remains just an announcement - no concrete steps have been announced yet. We are therefore also staying excited and will report on further changes here.
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