Smart metering deployment status across EU-28

The scope of this paper is to present an EU-28 overview of the smart meter roll-out implementation progress. The study is based on publicly available information and presents a traffic light map with the deployment status by mid-2017. A series of particular cases are approached and a gap between the European Commission recommendation, expected diffusion rate and actual deployment is identified. The study further provides some possible causes considering the number of metering points available at EU-28 level, country specific assumed targets and macro-environmental factors.