Meter readings

victor2

From EDF's terms & conditions....

5b We have the right to estimate consumption if we have not been able to collect all the information we need to work out the charges you owe us. For example, we may need to rely on estimated data if your energy meter has failed to accurately record the amount of energy we supplied during any particular period, or if your prices have changed during a billing period, for whatever reason, and we do not have details of consumption on the date of the change. We will work out this estimate from information we have about the energy used at the premises, which may include any meter readings you've sent us or we've taken for you, or the size of your home and how you use your energy. .

Qwiksilver

Thank you very much victor.

grahamc2003

Qwiksilver wrote: »

Thank you very much victor.

While helpful, Victors help doesn't answer your very specific question at all - in fact there is no answer at the moment. You'd have to get a lower court to judge on it on your specific circumstances, then possibly go through the same thing with an appeal, then the next step after that. Nothing is ever totally black or white (e.g. in your case you could argue that Victor's extract was an unfair term, therefore void).

In any case, whatever the legality, you certainly owe them something, so it would be up to you to estimate what you owe and pay, and justify it. But if you do, and don't supply a meter reading on which they can base an actual bill, they'd probably fit a prepayment meter eventually so they didn't hit that problem again. You could of course argue that breached your human rights or something (in general, you have a right to get the couts to judge on anything). If you cancel your diretc debit (if you have one) then of course you will lose your DD discount, or breach the temrs of your tariff.

It strikes me you have no real complaint when all you have to do is take a minute to read your meter and phone in the readings, and I suspect most people (the average bod, your potential lawer, the supplier, the regulator and everyone else) will wonder why you don't do that - afterall, I bet most people these days do exactly that.