Requesting Smart Metre?

Norman_Castle

On_Stanley_on wrote: »

I think in the long run it will save a lot of people a lot of money. IF they can see the usage and the cost beforehand they might think about leaving lights, TVs heating on when they don't need too.

I am astonished with the amount of people who leave lights on in rooms that they only nip in to, or people that leave the TV on playing to itself.

It makes me wonder when I am at work the sun is shining my office is bright and people still put lights on!!

People who are interested in reducing their energy bill will work out the costs without these. To many people these will be a novelty which is played with for an hour then disregarded.
Many people are simply not interested in making any effort to reduce energy use however much they complain about the cost. Smart meters will not change this.

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Norman_Castle wrote: »

People who are interested in reducing their energy bill will work out the costs without these. To many people these will be a novelty which is played with for an hour then disregarded.
Many people are simply not interested in making any effort to reduce energy use however much they complain about the cost. Smart meters will not change this.

The basic electric meter in everyones property is there to assist the supplier to bill correctly, not to help the consumer in any way and its not the consumers business really what type of meter the suppliers and distibutors care to fit. Before the M.P.s decided to have a vote, people used to get the meter which was fitted and they had no choice. No one cared much for electric dial meters with their baffling 6 clocks all spinning around in different directions but if you had one you was stuck with it, no ifs no buts. Smarts assist the suppliers and power stations and should be accepted by the UK public. They have a side effect of helping people monitor and get correct and accurate billing with no wild guesses as to their usage.

Norman_Castle

Smarts assist the suppliers and power stations and should be accepted by the UK public.

I'm indifferent about having one fitted but I object at having to pay for it.
How do they assist power stations?.

penrhyn

GingerBob wrote: »

The poster appeared to be suggesting the readings on meters at, say, the power stations, could be reconciled with the total of all readings from smart meters, UK wide. Such an approach is not technically feasible. Even if the upstream meters were at the local substations the suggested reconciliation would be wildly inaccurate, and even if it wasn't, all it would tell you was that someone, somewhere was tapping into the cables.

I remember my physics teacher telling us about the enterprising householder who had HV cables running over his house, so he stuck a whacking great coil in the loft and syphoned off power. Such an arrangement couldn't be spotted by smart meters.

I've heard of this too, people nearby the old Droitwitch 200 Khz transmitter apparently did something similar.

http://w3.siemens.co.uk/smartgrid/uk/en/Services/mcs/network/Pages/smart-grid.aspx

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Norman_Castle wrote: »

I'm indifferent about having one fitted but I object at having to pay for it.
How do they assist power stations?.

They can work out true demand much better. I agree 100% the consumer should nt be paying a penny. The suppliers and power stations benefit the most. I would like to know the true cost to us. I ve had them fitted so the cost is probably in with the green energy tax somewhere

Norman_Castle

^ Power stations will not be interested in an individuals usage.

cing0

Green energy (https://www.greenenergyuk.com) will fit an AMR electrictricty meter which is essentially the same but you don't get remote display/real time remote readings. For credit customers and they may even install it for free as they have in the past.
Currently like BG, if you've move suppliers, it will have to be ripped out.

spiro

cing0 wrote: »

Green energy (https://www.greenenergyuk.com) will fit an AMR electrictricty meter which is essentially the same but you don't get remote display/real time remote readings. For credit customers and they may even install it for free as they have in the past.
Currently like BG, if you've move suppliers, it will have to be ripped out.

Suppliers are not ripping BG smart meters out, they just use them as a dumb meter.