Smart Meters

nottsphil

Gerry1 said:

There will be no benefit whasoever.  However, its specified Load Limiting and Load Shedding abilities can restrict your usage or disconnect you if there's insufficient generating capacity at peak times because ageing power stations have been shut down and not replaced.  It also stores a year's worth of usage at 30-minute intervals, and you may not be happy with how your private lifestyle can be analysed and monetised.

The Smart Meter Snoopers

EDF using Onzo

In that article, it states:

Meanwhile, another firm has created a product that allows bosses to keep tabs on staff without their consent. In one instance, a bakery boss could tell that an employee hadn't turned up for work because an oven wasn't on when it should have been.

Have we got to the stage where a company can be criticised for wanting to be informed if it isn't working to capacity? 

Delessex

Hence my request, I don't have smart meters & don't want them! So if I could select (or at least see) tariffs that don't require them without looking at each tariff in depth it would help.

Highland76

Gerry1 said:

There will be no benefit whasoever.  However, its specified Load Limiting and Load Shedding abilities can restrict your usage or disconnect you if there's insufficient generating capacity at peak times because ageing power stations have been shut down and not replaced.  It also stores a year's worth of usage at 30-minute intervals, and you may not be happy with how your private lifestyle can be analysed and monetised.

The Smart Meter Snoopers

EDF using Onzo

You forgot to add they also give cancer! 

MeterMan

Why can't you people just answer the OPs actual question?
The hub can not be reactivated by BG, it used to be able to but they removed the ability, only remedy is a comms hub exchange, but you may as well request smet2 meters to be installed instead, but your in-home display will probably not work at the time of installation and a re-visit will be needed +28 days later.

Gerry1

Highland76 said:

Gerry1 said:

There will be no benefit whasoever.  However, its specified Load Limiting and Load Shedding abilities can restrict your usage or disconnect you if there's insufficient generating capacity at peak times because ageing power stations have been shut down and not replaced.  It also stores a year's worth of usage at 30-minute intervals, and you may not be happy with how your private lifestyle can be analysed and monetised.

The Smart Meter Snoopers

EDF using Onzo

You forgot to add they also give cancer! 

Haven't seen any evidence for that, whereas Load Limiting and Load Shedding are in the specification, and the creepy video speaks for itself.

ForumEye

MeterMan said:

Why can't you people just answer the OPs actual question?

Perhaps no one felt inclined to repeat the answer already given in a thread just 35 mins before the OP created a new user ID and posed the question again in this new thread?

The answer at the time was only about 3 threads down, so presumably not the answer the OP wanted to receive.

Talldave

ForumEye said:

MeterMan said:

Why can't you people just answer the OPs actual question?

Perhaps no one felt inclined to repeat the answer already given in a thread just 35 mins before the OP created a new user ID and posed the question again in this new thread?

The answer at the time was only about 3 threads down, so presumably not the answer the OP wanted to receive.

Says a well-informed poster, 17 minutes after joining the forum - welcome!

st999

I was on holiday abroad just after having a smart meter installed so had the app on my tablet.
I was on a hopon/hopoff bus in Stockholm with free wifi so decided to check my energy usage to see how much electricity my fridge was using, the only thing left on, plus it was still a novelty.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that 16 kWh of gas had been used in the middle of summer when my heating was supposed to be off, so I sent an email to my daughter asking her to check on my house to see if I had left my heating on.
She emailed back to tell me that my grandson had went to my house to use my computer and had showered a couple of times, so yes, it can be used to spy on people.