Great Britain: residential smart meter installations 2023

In the second quarter of 2024, some 663,167 smart meters were deployed by large electricity and gas suppliers to residential users in Great Britain. The number of smart electricity meters installed was higher that same year when compared to the number of gas meters.

Number of domestic smart meters installed by large energy suppliers in Great Britain from 3rd quarter 2012 to 2nd quarter 2024

Characteristic	Number of domestic smart meters installed
Q2 '24	663,167
Q1 '24	747,272
Q4 '23	825,257
Q3 '23	815,479
Q2 '23	780,175
Q1 '23	843,819
Q4 '22	915,587
Q3 '22	874,518
Q2 '22	840,729
Q1 '22	897,486
Q4 '21	854,412
Q3 '21	898,277
Q2 '21	999,464
Q1 '21	762,756
Q4 '20	990,397
Q3 '20	872,809
Q2 '20	142,463
Q1 '20	1,000,616
Q4 '19	1,176,069
Q3 '19	1,087,019
Q2 '19	1,028,841
Q1 '19	1,047,690
Q4 '18	1,124,656
Q3 '18	1,144,551
Q2 '18	1,267,114
Q1 '18	1,253,790
Q4 '17	1,317,885
Q3 '17	1,181,188
Q2 '17	1,058,132
Q1 '17	1,027,680
Q4 '16	935,446
Q3 '16	814,972
Q2 '16	622,903
Q1 '16	540,126
Q4 '15	402,638
Q3 '15	336,061
Q2 '15	272,598
Q1 '15	211,717
Q4 '14	142,963
Q3 '14	129,991
Q2 '14	97,329
Q1 '14	98,644
Q4 '13	95,333
Q3 '13	92,822
Q2 '13	80,586
Q1 '13	23,641
Q4 '12	3,241
Q3 '12	68

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Release date

August 2024

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

Q3 2012 to Q2 2024

Special properties

including electricity and gas meters

Supplementary notes

According to the source, for the purposes of smart meter reporting, ‘large energy suppliers’ are classed as those with a customer base of more than 250,000 domestic gas or 250,000 domestic electricity customers. Information about which utilities are included for each quarter can be found on the source's 'Notes' tab.
Additional information on the reporting methodology can be found here.
This statistic using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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