Consultation outcome

Smart Metering Implementation Programme: the process to finalise the Great Britain Companion Specification

• From: Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 5 February 2014
• Last updated: 15 April 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

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Government response to the consultation on the process to finalise the Great Britain Companion Specification

Ref: 14D/112

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Detail of outcome

The government will continue to develop the Great Britain Companion Specification (GBCS) in close consultation with industry, sharing iterations for comment before publishing the document for inclusion in the baseline, consultation and notification in July 2014. We have concluded that in order to maintain progress on the development of the GBCS and to protect against delays to Initial Live Operations (ILO) locally-initiated CAD pairing will be not be included in the initial version of the GBCS, but that it will be reintroduced at the earliest opportunity after ILO.

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Original consultation

Summary

Sets out the manner in which the government intends to complete the development of the 2.4 GHz Great Britain Companion Specification (GBCS).

This consultation ran from
10am on 5 February 2014 to 12:15am on 5 March 2014

Consultation description

This document sets out the manner in which the government intends to complete the development of the 2.4 GHz Great Britain Companion Specification (GBCS) to support the supplier-led Smart Meter roll-out by 2020.

The GBCS will describe the detailed requirements for communications between Devices in consumers’ premises, and between Devices and the Data and Communications Company (DCC).

Documents

Consultation on the process to finalise the Great Britain Companion Specification

Ref: 14D/012

PDF, 361 KB, 14 pages

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Published 5 February 2014
Last updated 15 April 2014 + show all updates

1. 15 April 2014

   Government response to the consultation published.

2. 5 February 2014

   First published.