The failures of new electric meters
June 8, 2010
By 2020, 80% of the French population will be equipped with this "counter communicating" called "Linky". According to an EU directive passed in 2006 and transposed into French law in December of that year, are 35 million households subscribing to EDF which will gradually replace the counter of the third counter to their usual standard, even if it still works perfectly. Target: eat smarter by regulating the electricity consumed according to different parameters, such as tenure, the weather or the seasons.
However, installing it already knows some failures, regrets Tuesday the newspaper Le Parisien. Its first cost could be much larger than originally planned for the consumer.If ERDF, a subsidiary of EDF responsible for distributing electricity anticipates a cost of 4 to 5 billion euros to change the entire fleet of French, the national federation of local boards and licensors (FNCCR) predicted for its to pay a sum which could be up to 9 billion euros. So it is around 230 euros that will pay each home subscriber to EDF for the mandatory introduction of new meter, according to figures from the Parisian. An amount on each bill, however, spread until 2020.
Numerous blackouts
Second failure, and not least, Linky does not work yet as well as expected. Of the 19,000 meters installed in the test region of Tours, just "communicating" as expected. The others walking for the moment as a traditional meter, without the function that makes the value added Linky."All the meters do not communicate because we have not yet enabled all functions. We are still numerous essays on networks, is justified ERDF.
The Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo has however entered into this false cons investigation Tuesday morning on Canal +. "This is not because it is the one from Paris that it will be like that," he responded. "There are difficulties with these smart meters, so it will not this formula" that will be adopted, "he said. It was also found not shocking that the cost of the meter is supported by the consumer. "The goal is that consumers pay less" by reducing consumption, he said.
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