Smart metering solution implementation in JSC 'Sadales tīkls'

JSC 'Sadales tīkls' carried out one of the biggest digitalisation projects in Latvia. Within their smart metering programme, new generation smart electricity meters were installed for all Sadales tīkls' customers, adding up to more than one million metering points. The data generated via this programme and the smarter energy management it allows, have led to much more climate-friendly energy consumption across Latvia.

Highlights

• Allows for the development of automatic solutions for the operational and precise control of electricity consumption/production and for electricity grid monitoring in the entire territory of Latvia.
• Allows customers to make date-driven decisions and access various solutions on how to optimise energy consumption and costs.
• Processes around 60,000 trader market data requests per month – this added up to more than 8 million trade market messages in 2022.
• At the end of the programme, data availability and the benefits of DSOs e-services are highly evaluated and 99% of customers perform their activities in the e-environment.

Sadales tīkls is committed to the smart meter rollout to develop a distribution system that meets the new needs of the electricity market as well as Latvia’s climate neutrality goals. The smart devices make energy data available for each of the more than one million market participants. Sadales tīkls offers data services on consumed, generated active and reactive energy with the reading frequency for the previous day, twice a day or even for the previous hour. This transparency has helped to improve efficiency, not only for Sadales tīkls’ grid operation and maintenance, but also for customers and other electricity market participants. Results so far show that due to the rollout, Latvia has reached one of the lowest costs per meter in the EU and market participants offer customers various solutions how to optimize energy consumption.