News Article - 24 May 2012
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Companies interested in accounting for carbon may be interested to know that climate change secretary Ed Miliband is to meet with six of the UK's biggest energy providers to discuss how to achieve a rollout of the £7 million smart meter project - hoped to be achieved between 2010 and 2011.

Npower, EDF, British Gas, Scottish & Southern Energy, Scottish Power and E.on have all claimed that they are in agreement with the government's proposal that they should each be in charge of their customers' smart meters - devices that could prove useful as a carbon emissions measurement.

However, the Times reports that this has led to suggestions a central communications supplier will be responsible for monitoring, collecting and processing the data gathered from the meters, with Vodafone, O2, BT, Logica, Accenture, IBM and Capgemini all expressing an interest.

Meanwhile, online resource Business Green's James Murray has said: "Concrete certainty that there will be demand from government for low carbon products and services will allow clean tech firms to invest with more confidence than ever before," a comment which may prompt firms to invest in carbonaccounting software.

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