Smart meter

Just_Passing_Bi

We're all electric, electricity supplier, npower.

For the last few weeks, regular emails / texts from npower, stating on **** date, they'll be replacing our electricity meter with a "new smart meter"

We pay monthly DD, 15 years in the property, quarterly bill is almost accurate.

Is it compulsory we have a "new smart meter"?

Now idea of advantages / disadvantages with a "smart meter"

Looking forward to any replies.

gardner1

If your happy submitting your own readings and are capable of turning lights off/heating down.........tell them to bog off as they cant make you have one.They are desperate to meet the targets they were given by the government

emc

Npower state on their What Is a Smart Meter page:

Are Smart meters compulsory?

Installing Smart meters is a government initiative and one of the biggest national upgrades ever undertaken in the UK.

It's not compulsory, but everyone in the UK will be offered a Smart meter... (My bold).

Merlin139

Just send them an E-mail or ring them up and say No Thank You!

Ken68

I have a smart meter, very useful,, stop being such a Luddite.

Just_Passing_Bi

Ken68 wrote: »

I have a smart meter, very useful,, stop being such a Luddite.

Ken, I asked if having one installed was compulsory, it appears not, I'll take the advice of others,

Your opinion is valuable to my question, what's not valuable and quite offensive is being referred to as a Luddite!!

Ken68

Apologies, JPB....the smart meter installed by SSE is very useful, though not the latest model. Even though,Tonic ask for readings every month and give their own estimate which is pretty close to realtime.
And an instant update on account balance.What's not to like.

trickydicky14

Im with SSE and they keep on at me to have a smart meter I have had emails texts and phone calls just say No.
You do not have to have a smart meter at the current time and comments like that from Ken are not helpful.
To the best of my knowledge the meters being installed currently are first generation and often will not work if you change supplier so you have the problem of yet another meter needing to be changed at some later date.
Luddite has nothing to do with it just wait until the meters are up to the job.

macman

Your meter may be due for replacement anyway, smart or otherwise.

Nick_C

Covered ad nauseum on other threads.

The_Big_Bamboo

Nick_C wrote: »

Covered ad nauseum on other threads.

Houbara wrote: »

Amazing how many take the time to come on here and ask " is it compulsory to have a smart meter ? " when professor Google, Alexa, etc will answer in seconds..Simply Google "are smart meters compulsory in the UK " 5 seconds later the answer comes up ! NO !
Obviously there is no need to go through the rigmarole of registering in MSE to find the answer;... No need to enter MSE energy board at all to get the answer. It is plastered all over the www and in every suppliers T, and C, s.
Out of the hundreds who do come on and ask the question I have never found one who has ever ended up by saying thanks I want one ", they all go for the refusal .
Its time that this question should be removed by the board guides, we re sick of it and bored because we all know which way this question ends up., its been this way for years

Decidedly unfriendly and very patronizing replies above;...IMHO, of course.

MSE provides an open forum for ‘real people’ to ask other ‘real people’ a question about an issue they need help/advice with.

It’s not Google or Alexa.

If you are ‘sick and bored’ of threads such as this then it’s perhaps best to just ignore them;... but if you really can’t resist the urge to reply then at least do it in a civil manner.