New meter installation

Gerry1

victor2 said:

Gerry1 said:

victor2 said:

Gnatsv said:

.... We don’t want smart meters installed just the standard ones.  

despite what you may read, they are not used to ration your supply in any way.

Not yet.

But why would the load limiting and load shedding abilities have been included if neither would never, ever, be used?

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

The manufacturers might as well include all facilities they can think of (don't forget remote disconnect), as they are looking at the global market. Eventually, when they figure out how to make smart meters work in tower blocks and areas where radio communications is hard/impossible, those people without smart meters will probably find themselves restricted to tariffs which are not competitive (e.g. the standard variable tariff).

If the government wants to restrict electricity usage because their insistence on all new cars being electric, for example, has overloaded the national grid, they'll do it at sub-stations. No need for smart meters to flip a switch there.

I didn't forget remote disconnect, it's Load Shedding.

Load Shedding and Load Limiting are in the BEIS specification, i.e. defined by Government, not mere bells and whistles dreamed up on a whim by the manufacturers.  It's for real.

Load shedding at sub-stations is far too crude and ancient.  It's almost the nuclear option, it's All Or Nothing and it can knock out hospitals, care homes, people on ventilators or dialysis, etc.  In contrast, Load Limiting and Load Shedding is much more granular, because it's targeted down to individual consumers.  Think of it like a Cruise Missile...