Shell Energy email "Your meter needs to be replaced"

jrawle

Northern_Wanderer said:

You can check your certification with model number here to see when yours expires: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1056244/Schedule_4_-_31st_January_2022.pdf

the meter will say when it was fitted so you can work out when it needs replaced.

Thanks for the link. Now I can confirm that my meter is good until 2027, so the letters I've received over the last few years saying things such as, "Your meters are obsolete" and implying they are at the end of their life and need to be replaced (as opposed to the suppliers simply wanting to meet their quota of smart meter installations) were in fact lies. I shall now continue to wait and have a smart meter installed at a time that's convenient for me and that will benefit me.

I have no issue with having a smart meter in principle, but I do resent being mislead. That goes for the adverts with Einstein in them (how much did they have to pay the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for that?) with the misleading suggestion they will save energy, with only the small print clarifying that you actually have to change your behaviour to save energy.