Guidance

Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER) Innovation Programme

This funding scheme aims to develop, test and demonstrate technologies that measure the thermal performance of homes, using smart meter and other data.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 1 September 2018
• Last updated: 10 September 2019 — See all updates

This funding scheme is to develop, test and demonstrate technologies that measure the thermal performance of homes using smart meter and other data. These have been termed Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER).

SMETER Innovation Competition: Phase 2

SMETER Innovation Competition: Phase 2 is for SMETER products which are already at a commercial stage of development. It does not provide further funding for development.

Applicants should have products that are ready to take part (together with the previously funded SMETER products) in the Phase 2 field trials to demonstrate their performance.

BEIS is providing support through funding for an expert contractor to run the field trials and evaluate the different SMETER technologies.

Any published results will be anonymised.

To apply

Read the guidance:

• SMETER Innovation Competition: Phase 2 - application guidance notes (PDF, 526 KB, 64 pages)
• SMETER Innovation Competition: Phase 2 - questions and answers (PDF, 117 KB, 3 pages)

Complete:

• the application form: SMETER Innovation Competition: Phase 2 - application form (MS Word Document, 122 KB)
• the data protection assurance form: GDPR assurance questionnaire for contractors (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 92 KB)

Submit both forms to builtenvironmentinnovation@beis.gov.uk

Deadline for submission of applications: 13 September 2019

Contact builtenvironmentinnovation@beis.gov.uk if you have any questions.

SMETER Innovation Competition

Up to £4.1 million was provided for innovation projects to develop SMETER tools. Up to £900,000 was provided for a Technical Assessment Contractor to independently test and demonstrate SMETER tools developed during the innovation projects:

• SMETER Innovation Competition closed to applications on 19 October 2018
• all projects are expected to be completed and to disseminate learning by January 2021
• guidance for the Innovation Competition: Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER) Innovation Competition: guidance (PDF, 745 KB, 83 pages)

Successful projects from Phase 1

The 8 projects which have secured funding in this competition are:

• Building Research Establishment
• EDF
• Hoare Lea LLP
• Centre for Sustainable Energy
• PassivSystems
• Build Test Solution
• Switchee
• CAR

The contract for Technical Assessment Contractor was awarded to a consortium made up of:

• Loughborough University
• UCL
• Leeds Beckett
• Halton Housing

Find out more

For more information, please email BuiltEnvironmentInnovation@beis.gov.uk.

Published 1 September 2018
Last updated 10 September 2019 + show all updates

1. 10 September 2019

   Questions and answers Phase 2, added.

2. 1 September 2018

   First published.