City Road Podcast

We face an energy governance trilemma: of peak demand for electricity in cities; ensuring prices remain low; and addressing climate change with renewable technologies. And your home is right in the middle of this energy trilemma.  A Smart Electrical Metre fitted to your home might just be the technology that pushes you into a more data-driven, digitally networked and automated energy world. But what do smart metres mean for you, your household and your home?  "So the main benefit of the smart metre is that it can lower your electricity retail bill, and as we all know, we've seen significant increases in electricity prices". Dr Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran  We’re talking to Dr Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran and Dr Jathan Sadowski about smart metres, energy governance, tech start-ups and privacy. They discuss the divergence between what smart metres promise electricity consumers and electricity managers, what they currently do, and what new data about electricity usage might allow in the future. These technologies