EDF say they can give me a breakdown of how I use energy - It's rubbish isn't it?

easy

I had an email from EDF urging me to login to my account and look at my "personalised energy dashboard" .  They have this (see below) 
I don't believe that this data is true -  I don't believe that they can tell what specific device is using electricity,  and as we use the same gas boiler to heat the water and the radiators I don't believe they know how much gas is being used for each.  
Am I right in thinking this is utter rubbish ?  and if so shouldn't that be exposed and stopped ?

Ultrasonic

Looks like nonsense to me.

Mstty

Looks like a daily mail breakdown of energy costs, absolute tosh.

gefnew

A bit like this link.
Your Energy Hub | EDF (edfenergy.com)

Robin9

Yes  rubbish - how can EDF possibly know if you are cooking or doing the washing ? 

A bit of typical EDF  - playing with the frills but not able to get the basics right.

markin

They can make they pretty good guesses based on load, time, and pattern of use

MattMattMattUK

They are guessing, mine is inaccurate compared to a breakdown of my actual usage. 

gefnew

If you have a smart meter then they have the data electrons to  send info to the dcc.

MattMattMattUK

gefnew said:

If you have a smart meter then they have the data electrons to  send info to the dcc.

However energy meters cannot tell what the usage is. Algorithms could pattern match to figure out some elements with a reasonable degree of accuracy, but the majority of the usage would be a total punt.

Phones4Chris

gefnew said:

A bit like this link.
Your Energy Hub | EDF (edfenergy.com)

And that hub only works/can be set up if you are on a single rate tariff (at present) smart meter. If you are E7, tough at present, not that it looks like it'll be worth the bother anyway.

Gerry1

EDF admit to obtaining (Table 2) and sharing (Table 3) private data from / with Onzo e.g. to monetise their smart meter customers...