Why No Standardisation for Smart Meters?

Big_Al51

Hi

My current supplier (OVO) came today to fit smart meters. My previous supplier (SSE) had fitted a smart meter for electricity. That wouldn't work with OVO so it was ripped out and new electricity & gas smart meters were installed. I'm very pleased with them (and OVO) but cannot for the life of me understand why there is no STANDARD for smart meters!! This seems a ridiculous waste of money and equipment (and it will be us, the consumers that pick up the tab).

Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this and WHY this situation was ever allowed to develop?

If I change supplier again it looks as though these newly fitted smart meters will be discarded and replacements fitted. Wouldn't it make sense for all suppliers to be able to use compatible smart meters?

lstar337

Standardisation is on its way, sometime next year.

bsod

Because the people in charge are thick, incompetent, will probably be retired or in a different job in 2 years time, and the consumer always pay for it so it doesn't matter to them

System

What tab is that you believe you are picking up as a consumer.The price of the meters is nt billed to any consumers . Hundreds of thousands are now nicking gas and electric . If you want to have a rant at wasted money then that should be top of the list.Suppliers don t do anything to deter it or stop it apart from BG who do run a properly funded RPU.. I m reading many meters nowadays for Utility Warehouse and judging by how many fiddled meters I m finding with this lot they are a big attraction to the thief. This week some bod even reversed his gas meter in an outside box in a middle class street ! Cheeky or what ! He s collared but nothing will be done.

bsod

Do you think Father Christmas pays for them, along with your salary?

System

This was the original plan.

https://www.smartenergygb.org/en/the-bigger-picture/about-the-rollout/the-stages-of-the-rollout

A lot of the dates have moved to the right. The Data Communications Company that will provide the communications from property to the supplier (with the new generation of meter known as SMETS2) went live in some regions last month.

Each of the Big 6 suppliers has to install a minimum of 1500 smart meters in the next year (but for a reason that I don't understand they can count SMETS 1 (old generation meters) in the total.

Forty five thousand properties (that may include many flats in one property) may never get a smart meter because there is no technical solution. It is estimated that the communications element of all smart meters will have to be replaced within 10 years. Guess who is paying?

Pincher

It's the internet generation, they expect everything to be free.


Try this blackmailing business model:

I am FaceBook, I sponsor FREE smart meters.
The householder signs a contract, but never reads the small print.
The smart meter can switch off your gas and electricity!

Stage One, if you do not watch the adverts, and respond by hitting the remote control enough to prove you did, then I cut off your electricity and gas.

Stage Two, when you are suitably conditioned to obey and do what you are told, I make you BUY stuff.

Stage Three, you are so compliant and obedient, I use you for whatever I want.



Think about the FREE mobile phone contracts.

System

Well I m not !! my electric is less than 8p a kwh till 2017 and gas is just over 2p a kwh..Cheaper than its been for years.People who pay are the 50% who are stuck on standard tariffs either forcably or through ignorance

bsod

standing charge...