"Germany has one of the slowest smart meter rollouts in Europe. Just 5.5 per cent of households have one as of December 2025, compared with more than 90 per cent in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, and 63 per cent on average EU-wide.
This makes it harder for Germany to shift energy use toward times when renewables are abundant, contributing to the country’s wasted wind and solar – and to Germans paying some of the highest energy bills in Europe. […]"
Huh. I had to get a smartmeter. Always seemed to me they sped up the rollout after 2 solar panels + inverter dropped to below 300€. Otherwise I might have gotten some and make my meter spin backwards…
But now I got a smartmeter and can’t defraud them anymore… On the flipside I got one of those nice ESP32 sensors to log my electricity consumption every 5 seconds. I’m currently at 195W.
For me, they just installed a bidirectional meter that separately measures the incoming and outgoing power. But it’s not actually “smart”, it still needs to be manually read and isn’t connected to the internet.