Since the end of 2008, State Power Grid Corp of China announced to deploy smart grids nationwide, smart metering programms have been dramatically implemented in China. The several times of inviting public biddings in China for “smart meters” have proved this development. During this one year and half, nine pilots of smart grids projects have been installed and underway into operation, more than 30 million units of smart meters have been contracted and more than 10 million have been shipped. It is now the time to be freshly updated in these developments.
The past year has been an acceleration of activities among the numerous parties – various levels of Chinese power utilities have been tracking the national development plans and launching smart metering rollouts, manufacturers and suppliers and researchers have been busy for R & D activities, and related standard developments are underway in related standard development teams under the power network operators.
But there are many challenges and much more to achieve in the coming years. With the total almost 500 million units of smart meters due for deployment by year 2020 in China, it is questioned that the so-called “smart meters” are really smart and meeting the requirement of smart grids for the future? Are the selected solutions for communication technologies really matured and suitable for massive deployment? Are there problems on true interoperability between systems and equipments? More on data management, data privacy and security issues as well as improved energy management.
METERINGChina 2011 – The 5th Metering, Billing, Data Management, & CRM Conference & Exhibition is the industry premier meeting and networking place for smart metering professionals from China and rest of the world, and the biggest event in China and rest of Asia that gives you real payback on knowledge, fresh information, time and investment.
What to expect?
From the past years, METERINGChina conference & exhibition has been proven to be a very international local China event. Especially since past two years, the fast development of smart metering in China has attracted the interest of many leading international utilities and METERINGChina has become a preferred platform for utility leaders and experts to meet and discuss about the strategies and insights that shaping metering industries in China and rest of Asia.
On behalf of the event management and the team, I warmly welcome you to participate in this annual leading international local event by exhibiting/sponsoring and speaking as well as attending the conference.
Looking forward to seeing you in Guangzhou, China
Kevin SHI
Program Director
GSL Consulting Group
Email: conference@meteringchina.com