Power customers must pay up to 2000 crowns a year for manual reading

By the end of the year, all Norwegian households must have installed an advanced measurement and management system.

These counters automatically send the amount of energy consumed.

This will increase efficiency and reduce costs throughout the value chain, from recording and submitting data to data processing and sending invoices. 19659003] However, the regulations provide some exceptions

either if the consumption in the home is very low and predictable, or if the client has a certificate from a doctor or a psychologist that he suffers from an electrical sensitivity

. 5000 Norwegians, according to a report from NVE.

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The additional cost will not be charged to other customers of food

Now , many online businesses believe that customers without active communication device in the AMS meter require the collection of measurement data.

In addition to the fact that online businesses must manage customers' self-corrections, they also check meters without active communication devices once per calendar year.

This may mean that network companies have to go physically to the customers. The cost of annual check reading and the cost of self checking are a direct result of the fact that the customer does not want the company's standard AMS solution, NVE estimates.

Manual reading must therefore be considered as a separate service.

– If the network companies do not require such a reading fee, the cost of manual reading must be covered by other customers of electricity, explains the director of the Authority NVE energy regulator, Ove Flataker

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Fees should cover only the actual nadene regime

Manually, readers will not be able to use improved ICT systems either, says NVE.

This means that network companies must operate with two measurement value management systems; a new digitized system with automated processes, and an old manual system.

Maintaining a manual collection system will be expensive for network companies

– Online businesses have additional costs for manually manipulating data. Therefore, NVE allows network companies to charge a fee to cover the cost of manual reading, "said Flataker.

Fees can not be higher than the cost of online companies with manual reading. can be the recording and validation of the measurement status, the delivery letter, and the corrections of the bad delivery condition, as well as the annual reading of the check.

Even if the customers live scattered, the charges will be still the same.

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Already introduced a fee in Troms

For NRK, division head Torfinn Stulen Jonassen in NVE considers that a such a royalty may be in the order of 500 to 2000 crowns a year

Industrial policy adviser Ole Haugen in Energy Norway applauds the fee:

– The electricity grid is a gap between customers, where equal customer groups need to be treated equally . We think it's reasonable that those who cause increased community costs must pay a little more. But the fee should not be higher than the actual costs that the network company has with manual reading and meter verification, "he said in a comment.

A network company that has already introduced fees reading is Troms Kraft Nett AS. has already introduced this from 01.01.2018.) writes Erling Dalberg, CEO of Troms Kraft Nett, in an email addressed to Pengenytt

– These have to pay an additional fee of NOK 500 per year, which will cover the additional costs of handling, so we avoid having other customers charged for this cost, he adds

NVE states that network companies may also charge fees to automatic flow meters when customers benefiting from the granted exemption move to a home with a connected communication device. Keep up to date with the latest news a private finance – Follow Pengenytt on Facebook

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