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Analysis of international residential solar PV self-consumption

How much does installing solar photovoltaic (‘PV’) panels reduce domestic electricity bills? Despite over 800,000 households with solar panels in the UK today, we do not have a firm answer to this simple question. This is because the empirical data …

Utilising smart meter data for research and innovation in the UK

Great Britain aims to install 53 million smart electricity and gas meters in around 27 million domestic properties by 2020. Smart meters provide the potential for high-resolution electricity and gas consumption data that has never previously existed …