Smart metering policy framework post 2025

Overview

We are consulting on proposals to set the policy framework for energy suppliers to deliver service improvements by ensuring smart meters operate as they should, and to continue installing smart meters after 31 December 2025, when the existing annual installation targets come to an end.

The consultation seeks views on proposed obligations to:

• improve smart meter operations
• complete the domestic rollout by the end of 2030
• submit annual deployment plans

What happens next

Stakeholders and other interested parties are invited to provide their views on the government’s proposed approach and, more specifically, the questions set out above.

This consultation closes at 23:59 03 October 2025. Details on how to respond to this consultation have been provided in the General Information section of this document.

Once the consultation closes, we will consider all responses before publishing the government response in due course.