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28 Frontier Economics | January 2011
both settlement and data privacy solutions 37 do not act as a barrier to
introduction of innovative tariffs. It may also be within a wider role, as
retailers seek to expand their business model. For those cases, care needs to
be taken to make sure that there is nothing in the industry arrangements (in
particular associated with protocols or the central communications
infrastructure) which will make it harder for new entrants to offer wider
energy services such as integrating retail with additional home automation
services.
37 For example, constraints on the frequency of accessing time of use data could limit the tariffs that
suppliers could offer.
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