Great Britain: residential smart meter installed by type 2022

In the fourth quarter of 2022, some 516,631 smart electricity meters were deployed by large suppliers to residential buildings in Great Britain. Approximately 398,956 smart gas meters were deployed that same year. At the time, there were roughly 26 million domestic smart meters in operation in Great Britain.

Number of domestic smart meters installed by large energy suppliers in Great Britain from 3rd quarter 2012 to 4th quarter 2022, by type

Characteristic	Electricity	Gas
Q4 '22	516,631	398,956
Q3 '22	504,572	369,946
Q2 '22	477,608	363,121
Q1 '22	508,031	389,455
Q4 '21	491,679	362,733
Q3 '21	518,212	380,065
Q2 '21	570,822	428,642
Q1 '21	435,799	326,957
Q4 '20	560,930	429,467
Q3 '20	488,899	383,910
Q2 '20	80,108	62,355
Q1 '20	544,126	456,490
Q4 '19	654,875	521,194
Q3 '19	600,361	486,658
Q2 '19	554,940	473,901
Q1 '19	573,654	474,036
Q4 '18	619,726	504,930
Q3 '18	632,575	511,976
Q2 '18	707,374	559,740
Q1 '18	708,652	545,138
Q4 '17	741,547	576,338
Q3 '17	664,924	516,264
Q2 '17	598,064	460,068
Q1 '17	581,680	446,000
Q4 '16	525,776	409,670
Q3 '16	461,304	353,668
Q2 '16	354,641	268,262
Q1 '16	306,842	233,284
Q4 '15	233,400	169,238
Q3 '15	197,911	138,150
Q2 '15	160,543	112,055
Q1 '15	126,515	85,202
Q4 '14	82,081	60,882
Q3 '14	76,227	53,764
Q2 '14	60,216	37,113
Q1 '14	61,164	37,480
Q4 '13	55,603	39,730
Q3 '13	57,632	35,190
Q2 '13	45,456	35,130
Q1 '13	12,678	10,963
Q4 '12	1,671	1,570
Q3 '12	36	32

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Release date

March 2023

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United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

Q3 2012 to Q4 2022

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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