How do smart meters work and influence electricity bills – BBC News in Serbian
The electricity bill is again you again.
The very thought of waiting in line to complain instantly makes you nervous.
To make mistakes when reading the electricity meters is not a newspaper, but this frequency could reduce the smart meter potentially.
Small, digital devices, who informs you at all times how much energy you have spent and at what price and where potential failure is.
By installing, users can easily control their own electricity consumption, adjusting it to lower tariff prices, and the stability of electricity supply is also improved, Aleksandar Kovačević explains, expert in energy.
« Use of a smart meter does not affect the amount of account, however, careless use can be reflected in the final price of energy consumed, » he points for the BBC in Serbian.
Smart meters in Serbia are installed free of charge and remotely read exclusively electricity distribution (EDS) and currently have 600,000 households.
The donation of the European Union worth 110 million euros were placed.
It is still so much longer should be replaced by the end of 2025. with the help of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EID).
« At that moment, we will have about 30 percent of smart meters online, with the plan that at least 80 percent of the meters are at least 80 percent of the meters.
« Benefite will also have users and electricity distribution », Explained Dalibor Nikolic, Director of the EDS Management Directorate.
By 2030. About three million old measuring devices should replace smart.
Benefits, but also potential risks
The clever meter is a summary name for various devices that translate the energy flow in the digital signal, and then stored in databases.
These types of devices offer a number of benefits.
At any time, you can follow how much kilowatt electricity you have spent and at what price and you plan to plan when it is more cost-effective to include a washing machine, stove or boiler.
In February 2025. The possibility of users have been introduced in Serbia to check how much currents they spent in the previous month and to provide data through the application by electricity distribution.
Through the Site of Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) and applications EPS insight into accountusers can check the balance, salaries of accounts at any time, or appeals.
Energy manufacturers even partially using smart meters have a large amount of data on which they can improve distribution networks and reduce losses that can, but does not have to reflect the consumer accounts, says Kovačević.
Warns both potential risks, such as abuse of personal data, but also accuracy when reading.
« Benefits can be achieved without mass replacement meters, it is enough for the energy network to digitize, with minimal investment costs, » Kovacevic points out.
How is it in the world?
More than 60 percent of households in Europe are equipped with some kind of smart electricity meter, the data available to Aleksandar Kovačević.
When it comes to devices that digitally monitor natural gas consumption, this percentage is significantly smaller, but the increase in demand and for them is observed.
By 2029. About 80 percent of electricity consumers and 60 percent of natural gas users in the world could have smart meters in the home, adds.
Current and gas prices for households, as well as consumption of these energy energy, are significantly higher in Europe than in Serbia, while the installation of a smart measuring device costs almost the same, he points out.
« In Europe, this type of electricity is significantly more economical and more effective in relation to Serbia, but strategic application could have a large electricity network », concludes Kovačević.
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