Are 3 Phase Smart Meters Being Installed Yet?

Just as a follow up on this I finally have my very large solar/battery (40+kw of panels, 60kwh of batteries) system up and running after huge delays.

I also have the install registered with ESB so my electricity supplier should be able to see it's there and I'll start getting paid deemed export rates.

Now I need to get a Smart 3 Phase Meter installed so I can proceed to next part of plan (charge batteries cheaply at night, run house off this and export most of what I generate and start to recoup the costs of the install. I can see the rates paid falling substantially over time so I'm worried about potentially having to wait a year+ to get the smart meter install.

What I'm wondering is does anyone have any experience in getting a smart 3 phase meter installed?

I have no contact in Electric Ireland (current supplier) so sending them a general message I suspect is unlikely to result in anything too helpful.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

I suspect it's the kind of thing that if I found the right person in ESB/Electric Ireland I could get it done quickly but otherwise I'll potentially be waiting a long time! I had a similar experience trying to get a Virgin Media cable run from the street into our house. I had about a year+ of ringing customer service regularly and them saying they'd get someone to contact me (never happened), when I eventually managed to get the mobile number of the guy that did this in the company I had it done in a week!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks for that. That really does not sound too promising, I first looked at this in 2022 and it was meant to be coming the next year, looks like they just keep pushing it back.

Thanks, yes at the moment we'll just look to everything ourselves and then flip this when we have smart meter.

At this time of year generation is minimal (even with the 40kw of panels) but the issue will be in the summer when we'll be exporting tones for free. We are often away for a few months in summer also so will be missing out on getting paid for a lot of export then. Maybe I should set it up to offer free EV charging to neighbours rather than give away for free, we have a 22kw Zappi out front:)

Am just keen to get the smart meter ASAP as the whole financial logic of getting the system is based on being able to get paid to export/charge cheaply at night. Till then it will never pay off in any meaningful way.

Can I ask how you registered for this?