E.on Smart Meter Installation

Gerry1

E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc wrote: »

Hello Smodlet and the cost of running smart meters varies depending on the set up at individual properties.

The electricity meter is mains powered and the gas meter is battery powered. On average, the cost is around 18 pence to 80 pence a year.

Surely the meter only records and charges for downstream usage, not its own internal usage? That would be as unjustifiable as expecting the home user to pay for the comms hub's SIM card and data usage. The supplier should meet all the metering charges, whether it's the meter reader's wages, the data charges or the red flashing light. They're all just business overheads.

However, if the customer chooses to plug in a mains powered IHD then that device's usage will be chargeable, although I'd expect the costs to be a bit higher. If it's 1W then it will get through 8.76kWh in a year, or £1.31 if it's 15p/kWh.

Smodlet

Gerry1 wrote: »

Surely the meter only records and charges for downstream usage, not its own internal usage? That would be as unjustifiable as expecting the home user to pay for the comms hub's SIM card and data usage. The supplier should meet all the metering charges, whether it's the meter reader's wages, the data charges or the red flashing light. They're all just business overheads.

However, if the customer chooses to plug in a mains powered IHD then that device's usage will be chargeable, although I'd expect the costs to be a bit higher. If it's 1W then it will get through 8.76kWh in a year, or £1.31 if it's 15p/kWh.

I admit I have no idea what you just said, Gerry1 but remain unmoved by the industry's pleas to succumb to smart/dumb meters.

I called nPower, my previous supplier, a few weeks ago to ask about the WHD; the difference in their professionalism from Eon's is more staggering than I remember; the lady could not have been more helpful.

I reiterate, Malc's (and Helena's, whose role seems to have moved on) contribution on here is Eon's salvation, as far as I am concerned and the only reason I chose them as my supplier at renewal this year. Their standard of communication is the exception; it should be the rule.

I would like to wish all who have contributed to this thread a happy and peaceful Yuletide.

Greenenergy

Have to agree eons stance that they are content to mislead customer about smart meters tells me everything I need to know about them . Will be leaving them when my fixed deal ends never to return .

Gerry1

Smodlet wrote: »

I admit I have no idea what you just said, Gerry1 but remain unmoved by the industry's pleas to succumb to smart/dumb meters.

I'm trying to say that the electronics bits of the meter that consume energy such as the Comms Hub ought to be connected straight across the wires that enter your house so that only the current that you draw flows via the bit that does the measuring.

Incoming cable--->---Measuring Gubbins--->---House Wiring
______________¦
______________¦
__________Comms Hub