EDF want to install new non smart meters

mikeygahan

Hi colleagues. 
EDF(my supplier)phoned to say they want to install new non smart meters,  I asked them several times to confirm they were not smart meters(which I do not want) and they insisted that they were updating them.  To be fair my gas meter looks older than Victor Meldrew.  However it sounds a bit odd
Has anyone else have experience of this?  Many thanks

Cosmos12

Funnily enough, I have recently started receiving emails from my (relatively new) energy supplier EDF. I was previously with Utility Point, and was moved over to EDF when Utility Point went bust.

EDF are now sending emails asking me to book an appointment to have a smart meter fitted. I haven’t heard one positive bit of feedback regarding smart meters and have no desire to have installed. The most recent email states that my current meter is reaching the end of its lifespan(?). I am quite happy sending meter readings every month, which is what I currently do and I really don't want a smart one.

Alnat1

Here's a positive bit of feedback about smart meters

I like my smart meter. It saves me sending meter readings. It gives me access to cheaper tariffs which aren't available to people who don't have smart meters and so saves me money.

Robin9

@Cosmos

And here is another. All in favour - accurate bills.

Too many posts on here involving people who dont read meters and get a huge catch up bill.

Ps as an ex supply industry man I think the programme has been badly handled and the "Einstein" advts are misleading - that IHD is not the Smart meter.

niktheguru

Agree completely with Robin9s post.
I really dont see why everyone is so against smart meters. Theyre not going to start taking over your house. People just need to get on with it and stop whining. If you're happy with your current meter thats fine, but for all those people who only want a "new non smart meter" they need to just realise its not happening and they need to modernise.

Alnat1

My nan stuck with an old black & white telly for years cos someone told her the colour ones made you go blind 

matelodave

Whats wrong with a smart meter - you need a meter of some sort and as said above you should get accurate up to date billing.  Mine saves me sending readings and I can read the meter myself without going outside.  There's less radiation from a smart meter than there is from a smart phone that fries your brain or your gonads depending whether you are talking or carrying it in your pocket.

I also agree with Robin, the introduction and roll out has been a total shambles - they should have just got on with it and not given people the choice nor allowed the energy companies to do their own thing but made sure that it was integrated from the beginning

casjen

Cosmos12 said:

Funnily enough, I have recently started receiving emails from my (relatively new) energy supplier EDF. I was previously with Utility Point, and was moved over to EDF when Utility Point went bust.

EDF are now sending emails asking me to book an appointment to have a smart meter fitted. I haven’t heard one positive bit of feedback regarding smart meters and have no desire to have installed. The most recent email states that my current meter is reaching the end of its lifespan(?). I am quite happy sending meter readings every month, which is what I currently do and I really don't want a smart one.

I had the same including txt messages... I dont need/want one either and pay by whole monthly DD. These smart meters are 100% unnecessary and should be purely voluntary IMO.  I cant remember where but in the the settings in your online acct there is a tickbox to stop receiving messages about smart meters. I changed this  a couple of months ago and ALL messages stopped.

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The_Fat_Controller

Smart Meters are great.

Accurate bills and no need for manual readings.

Can see my usage in my online account.

Allows me to confirm that the boiler has been running to keep my home frost free when I am away in the winter.

The IHD allows me to see exactly how much energy each device or light bulb uses although it has lost its ability to do sums correctly, kWh are correct but monetary usage is goosed for reasons that EDF cannot fathom.

[Deleted User]

My understanding is that thanks to more requests for, and a shortage of smart meters (chips) there is no need to legislate to remove the option of choice. That said, there will come at time in the not too distant future when suppliers decide that they can no longer support analogue meters and either they, or the Government, will deem these meters to be end-of-life. In EoL situations, consumers do not get a right of veto.

As there is an ongoing Government review on such things as time-of-use tariffs, I just wonder how those consumers on legacy analogue meters are going to choose the cheapest tariff. The use of kWh per year doesn’t work in these situations. Comparison sites will want to know the times when energy is being used - not just how much over the course of a year. Meaningful tariff comparisons will only be possible by pulling 12 month’s worth of actual usage data from a consumer’s smart meter. Tools for this have already been produced.

Should we have power cuts this coming Winter, not having a smart meter will not offer any protection as cuts will undoubtedly be done on a regional basis.

sevenhills

Alnat1 said:

Sorry, that was off topic, nothing to do with meters, just me getting old.

Perhaps the OP reminded you of him.
I too like my smart meters, in fact I wish they would upgrade them to second generation meters, so the read the energy from my solar panels