smart meters

Enaon EDA plans €61.4m digital upgrade of gas meters by 2028

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Gas distribution network operator Enaon EDA has incorporated a 61.4 million-euro investment plan into its new five-year development plan covering 2024 to 2028 to replace conventional natural gas meters with upgraded digital versions.

Enaon EDA, as the new single distribution network operator under the umbrella of the Italian energy group Italgas has been named, plans to install 568,980 smart meters by 2028 for existing and new connections in various parts of Greece.

The 61.4 million-euro upgrade to smart meters is part of the company’s wider 769 million-euro development plan covering 2024 to 2028.

Enaon EDA, according to the company plan, intends to install just over 184,000 smart meters in the wider Athens area, the budget of this initiative worth 22.45 million euros. It also plans to install just under 270,000 smart meters in the Thessaloniki area at a cost of 26 million euros, as well as nearly 115,000 smart meters in the Thessaly region, this segment of the plan budgeted at 11.4 million euros.

Protasis-Sagemcom victorious in smart meters extra tender

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A joint bid by Greek company Protasis and France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS appears to have emerged victorious in a supplementary tender staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO for the installation of an initial lot of 360,000 low-voltage smart meters around the country, as an addition to 7.3 million smart meters planned through the project’s main tender.

The main tender still has a long way to go as technical and financial details included in bids submitted December 7 amount to hundreds of pages and represent a humongous task for officials. But the progress made with the supplementary tender comes as an encouraging sign.

The major tender’s anticipated delay prompted DEDDIE/HEDNO to announce its supplementary tender so that some progress can be made during the major tender’s appraisal period.

The same four bidders have submitted offers to both tenders. Besides the joint bid submitted by Protasis and Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS, US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary, fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary, and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco submitted bids to both procedures.

This initial lot of 360,000 smart meters has been marked out for large-scale consumers as well as public-sector agencies and enterprises all over the country.

 

Operator incentives for smart meters, dynamic tariffs nearing

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Distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO will be offered incentive for swift progress on its installation of smart meters, to replace conventional power meters around the country, but will also face penalties for delays, according to energy ministry revisions made to Greece’s REPowerEU package.

According to the plan, the operator will gain from bonuses for swift roll-out of smart meters, while, in the case of delays, DEDDIE/HEDNO’s regulated earnings will be impacted.

The revisions also include a framework for the introduction of dynamic tariffs. Planned to be introduced during the second half of the year, these tariffs will offer low-voltage consumers equipped with smart meters the ability to take advantage of fluctuations in wholesale electricity prices.

For example, consumers will be able to schedule the use of as many appliances as possible at times of low wholesale electricity prices in order to reduce electricity bills, such as midday hours if solar energy production has struck high levels.

Dynamic tariffs, dubbed orange tariffs, will add to the range of tariff choices available to consumers under the country’s new tariff system, color-coding tariff categories for easier price-comparing ability.

Fixed tariffs, or blue tariffs, as well as variable tariffs, either yellow or green tariffs, were introduced January 1. Though yellow and green tariffs are both variable tariffs, the former are set at the end of each month, and, as a result, represent less of a risk for suppliers.

Bids submitted by all four first-round qualifiers to a tender being staged DEDDIE/HEDNO offering a lucrative contract for the installation of 7.3 million smart meters throughout the country are currently being assessed.

Extra smart meters tender offers to be opened by Feb. 10

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Bids submitted by four participants to a supplementary tender being staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO for the installation of an initial lot of 360,000 low-voltage smart meters, as an addition to 7.3 million smart meters planned through the project’s main tender, are expected to be opened for appraisal towards the end of next week.

This initial lot of 360,000 smart meters has been marked out for large-scale consumers as well as agencies and enterprises of the public sector.

The appraisal procedure for offers submitted to the main tender, offering a lucrative 1.2 billion-euro contract for the installation of 7.3 million smart meters throughout the country, still has a long way to go. Technical and financial details in the bids, amounting to hundreds of pages, present a humongous task for officials.

The same four bidders have submitted offers to both tenders. Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco make up the field of contestants.

A fifth participant, Landis+Gyr, was disqualified from the main tender’s first round after officials deemed the company breached the tender’s conditions and terms by declaring, as a sub-contractor, a production facility other than its Corinth plant, west of Athens, which serves as an international hub for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Landis+Gyr took legal action but the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, rejected the case.

Following the court’s decision, the CEO of the company, Werner Lieberherr, stated he was suspending any further investments he had planned in Greece and would seek other countries for production.

 

 

Second-round bids for smart meters undergoing assessment

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Bids submitted by all four first-round qualifiers to a tender being staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO offering a lucrative contract for the installation of 7.3 million smart meters throughout the country are currently being assessed.

Participants submitted their bids for this major project, budgeted at 1.2 billion euros, on December 7. The appraisal process of technical and financial details in the bids, amounting to hundreds of pages, is a humongous task.

Officials are striving for the installation of a first wave of smart meters as soon as possible. The project, one of Greece’s biggest of recent times, is planned to be completed over a series of stages by late 2030.

Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco make up the field of contestants.

All 4 second-round qualifiers submit bids for smart meters

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All four final-round qualifiers in a tender being staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO to offer a lucrative contract for the installation of 7.3 million smart meters throughout the country have submitted bids, indicating competition will be intense.

Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco submitted technical and financial bids by a December 7 deadline that had been set by the operator.

The plan to install smart meters throughout the country, a project budgeted at 1.2 billion euros, ranks as one of Greece’s biggest projects of recent times.

The next stage of the tender will entail establishing an assessment committee that will examine the bids, their letters of guarantee, along with all technical and financial details. This evaluation process will require at least one month to be completed as the overall content amounts to several hundred pages.

The operator has also moved ahead with a supplementary tender to offer an additional contract for swifter installation of a smaller number of low-voltage smart meters, approximately 360,000 in total. The country’s authorities are seeking to have an initial batch of smart meters installed as soon as possible.

The four final-round qualifiers have been set a December 14 deadline for bids concerning this supplementary tender.

Besides offering multiple benefits for consumers, such as dynamic electricity tariffs, transparency and savings, smart meters will also offer the operator a digital map instantly locating technical faults and electricity-theft points.

Second round bids for smart meters tender due November

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Final-round qualifiers, four in total, in a tender being staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO to offer a lucrative contract for the installation of approximately 7.5 million smart meters throughout the country have received all relevant information, including notification on their technical and financial offers, which will need to be submitted in the second week of November.

Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco have qualified for the tender’s final round.

The four qualifiers have been provided all details concerning the technical requirements of the project, budgeted at 1.2 billion euros, up from an initial estimate of 800 million euros.

Meanwhile, the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, has, according to sources, rejected a case filed by Swiss-headquartered group Landis+Gyr, challenging DEDDIE/HEDNO for its disqualification from the tender in the first round.

The court, sources informed, ruled that the distribution network operator was right to disqualify Landis+Gyr from the procedure as the company declared, as a sub-contractor, a production facility other than its Corinth plant, west of Athens, which serves as an international hub for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

 

Landis+Gyr Supreme Court action for smart meters exit

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Swiss-headquartered group Landis+Gyr has scheduled a news conference for today to inform of the reasons behind its decision to legally challenge, at the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, its disqualification from the final round of a tender staged by Greek electricity distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO for a lucrative one billion-euro contract concerning the installation of approximately 7.5 million smart meters throughout the country.

At today’s session, Landis+Gyr also plans to offer an update on the next steps it intends to take concerning the smart-meters tender and also inform on its overall strategy for the Greek market.

Landis+Gyr’s chief executive officer Werner Lieberherr and the head official of the group’s Greek subsidiary, Aristidis Pappas, have already suggested a Supreme Court setback for the Swiss group would jeopardize a multi-million-euro investment plan at its production plant in Corinth, west of Athens.

Landis+Gyr was disqualified from the tender by DEDDIE/HEDNO as it declared, as a sub-contractor, a production facility other than its Corinth plant, serving as an international hub for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Landis+Gyr took its case to the Council of State after a preliminary appeal was rejected by the Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority.

Greek company Protasis, partnering with France’s Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS; US corporation Itron’s Spanish subsidiary; fellow US firm Elster Rometrics’ Romanian subsidiary; and Slovenia’s Iskraemeco have qualified for the tender’s final round.

Over the past decade or so, DEDDIE/HEDNO and parent company PPC, the power utility, have announced a series of tenders for the procurement and installation of smart meters, ultimately to no avail. They have either not taken place or not been completed.