Prospects for future development of smart meters

The economic development has led to an increase in the demand for electricity, which has required the continuous increase of investment in electricity, which has led to the construction of power grids, especially the increase in investment in smart grids, providing room for the development of smart energy meters and electricity consumption information collection systems. The smart grid has opened up the emerging technology market space, significantly expanding the power equipment market and profit margins.

According to the industry classification of the national economy, “electrical instrument and instrument manufacturing” includes 14 categories such as electric energy meter, electricity consumption information collection system, electric power load management system, electric power automation meter and system. Electric energy meter is the main product of electrical instrumentation. It is the basis for electric energy trade, inspection, statistics, utilization analysis, and energy management and energy conservation of enterprises. It is widely used in various fields of national economy and national defense construction.

Electrical instrumentation is an important part of China's instrumentation industry system. Among them, the electric energy meter is the main product of electrical instrumentation, accounting for more than 80% of the total output of electrical instrumentation. As a terminal measuring instrument for electric power products, electric energy meters play an extremely important role in electric power facilities. Their coverage covers various fields such as industry, agriculture, national defense, public facilities, and daily life. The technical level of the energy meter is mainly reflected in the long life, high precision, high stability, wide load, low loss, etc., through the close combination with the above new technology, from the traditional mechanical induction type energy meter to long-life mechanical induction type The leap of electric energy meter and electronic energy meter is a new industry that organically combines traditional industries with modern technologies.

With the development of electronics, information, software, communications, and electromechanical control technologies, the output of electronic energy meters in China has now become an absolute advantage and is gradually replacing the existing inductive energy meters. The development of related technologies has promoted the continuous upgrading of electrical instrumentation product technology.

Since the electric energy meter and related products need to be replaced due to expiration, at the same time of replacement, the electric power customer requires the metering and other functions of the electric energy meter to meet its ever-changing management requirements and adapt to the economic development, so the time for product upgrading will also follow. shorten. With the upgrading of each electric energy meter, those enterprises with strong technical strength and capable of actively carrying out technological innovation and product innovation will often be able to benefit in this process, obtain a large number of orders, and be able to seize market opportunities and achieve better results. Good profit.

As a basic industry related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, the power industry will have a total installed capacity of over 900 million kilowatts by 2010. According to the “12th five-year” development plan for the power industry, it is estimated that by 2015, the national installed capacity will reach 1.437 billion kilowatts. . With the increase in total installed capacity, the power supply capacity has been further enhanced. According to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission's “Electric Power Supervision Annual Report” (2010), in 2010, the country’s full-caliber power generation amounted to 4,228 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 14.85%, and electricity demand was generally strong. The total electricity consumption for the entire society was 4,192.3 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase. 14.56%.

In 2010, the country’s investment in electricity construction totaled 705.1 billion yuan, of which, the investment in power engineering construction completed was 3641 billion yuan, and the power grid investment was 341 billion yuan. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the investment in the power industry reached 530 billion yuan, an increase of 68% over the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, of which the power investment reached 2.75 billion yuan, and the power grid investment reached 2.55 billion yuan. The power investment will continue to grow.

At present, taking energy diversification and cleanliness as the direction, with the goal of optimizing the energy structure and promoting the transformation of energy strategies, a new round of energy reform characterized by clean energy and smart grids is advancing globally. The smart grid plays a central and leading role in it, and has become the future development trend of the power grid.

During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, with the advancement of global smart grid construction and grid reform, the international and domestic smart energy meter markets are facing enormous potential for development. According to the State Grid Corporation’s “12th Five-Year Plan” smart grid planning, only the country The power grid companies will invest more than 50 billion yuan in energy meters and centralized meter reading systems.

Energy conservation is a long-term strategic guideline for China's economic and social development. Our government has promised to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 40 to 45% compared to 2005. In May 2011, the "Circular of the State Council Approved Development and Reform Commission's Opinions on the Key Work of Deepening Economic System Reform in 2011" required the promotion of price reform of resource products. Accelerate the reform of transmission and distribution prices, promote the construction of competitive electricity markets and direct trading pilots for large users, improve the pricing mechanism for hydropower, nuclear power, and renewable energy power generation, adjust the sales price classification structure, and choose to implement residential electricity tariffs.