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Your ORES smart meter is free; ask to see your detailed readings in myORES

ORES is replacing meters with smart meters for free, commune by commune, and you cannot refuse one. Once it is in, you can ask for your quarter-hour readings to be shown in your myORES account.

Wallonia · Subject to change

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Smart home & monitoringLevel 1 · HabitCost: FreeA few minutes

ORES, one of the Walloon electricity grid operators, is replacing electricity meters with smart meters (compteurs communicants) one commune at a time, with the aim of reaching every meter by the end of 2029. You get a letter announcing the period, and you can look up the planned date for your address on the ORES page. The swap is free, including the meter and its accessories. It takes about an hour and needs a short power cut, and someone has to be home or give access to the meter.

You cannot refuse the smart meter, whether or not you have solar panels, as CWaPE, the Walloon energy regulator, points out.

The meter sends a daily reading to ORES. Your quarter-hour readings go to your supplier only if you ask for it. You can also ask ORES to receive them so that you can follow your use in detail in your myORES customer account.

Not every Walloon home is on the ORES network: AIEG, AIESH, RESA and the Réseau d'Énergies de Wavre each run the grid in their own area, so if one of them serves you, check its own pages for smart meters. CWaPE's page lists them and links to a tool to find your grid operator.

Details

ImpactIndirect · This saves no energy by itself: it is a rule, a service, a contract, or a health or safety item. How we rate impact
Estimated savingMetering service; the meter and its readings show your electricity use but save nothing by themselves. (confidence: low)
Who actsYou and your landlord
Needs landlord's agreementNo
TypeExisting service

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  1. ORES remplace votre compteur par un compteur communicant (in French) · ORES (official source) · checked on
    Backs: replacement commune by commune, aiming at all meters by the end of 2029; letter announcing the period; date can be checked for your address; free, about one hour, short power cut, access to the meter needed; daily readings to ORES; quarter-hour readings to the supplier only at your request, and to ORES at your request so they appear in myORES
    Where: intro and sections 'Comment se déroule le remplacement ?', 'Vous désirez connaitre la date de remplacement de votre compteur ?' and 'Que fait ORES avec mes données ?'
  2. Puis-je continuer à bénéficier du principe de compensation avec un compteur communicant ? (in French) · CWaPE (official source) · checked on
    Backs: a consumer, prosumer or not, cannot refuse the installation of a smart meter
    Where: answer text
  3. Transport et distribution d'électricité et de gaz (in French) · CWaPE (official source) · checked on
    Backs: Wallonia has several distribution grid operators (AIEG, AIESH, ORES, RESA, Réseau d'Énergies de Wavre), each for its own area; CWaPE offers a tool to find yours
    Where: section 'Liste des GRD' and the 'Trouver mon GRD' link

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