In FairGrid networks, an intelligent electricity meter with high functionality is used instead of the household electricity meter. FairGrid integrates various successful and effective techniques and procedures into one device:

• Consumer shutdown by frequency is performed in special applications in European power grids
• Electricity meter with PV input has every house with a PV system in Europe
• Countries that allow net metering show a rapid growth of solar capacity
• Progressive tariffs for social compensation or promoting PV growth already exist in some countries
• Consumption display on smart phones are slowly coming to private homes
• Payment via smart phones brings transparency to payment transactions in some countries like Sweden and Kenya.

FairGrid is a combination of Demand Side Management with autonomous control in one device, the FairBox.