Anyone else use EDF without a smart meter and am I missing something?

Gobsh

I'm with EDF energy who only calculate accurate usage and financials once every 6 months. We have a smart electric meter so we have accurate readings, and EDF have badgered me until I approved 30 minute readings. We don't have a smart gas meter & can't get them to fit one. The irony is that whilst we have 30 minute reads of our electric meter/usage, we have no reads and no clue whether we are spending £20 million pounds on gas until next April? Despite sending gas reads in, EDF don't record any actual reads done by humans for a whole 6 months. Seems a bit bizarre and frustrating. Customers without a smart meter could already be bankrupt and won't know until next April 2023? Anyone else use EDF without a smart meter and am I missing something?

molerat

Anyone else use EDF without a smart meter and am I missing something?

Yes, I do and yes you are

Work it out yourself.  I could tell you in about 5 minutes what my gas cost has been since the last bill, it ain't rocket science as they say.

edit: £77.29, there you go.  And that included reading my meter, downloading the CV values from NG and working out the average and calculating the bill.

rothesy

Hi.  I look after three accounts with EDF, they got moved there when ZOG Energy closed.  I have been getting bombarded with text messages and emails from EDF telling me to get smart gas meters installed.   I was tired of it so agreed.  I really don't see the point as like you said they only want two readings each year.  I just want them off my back.

Robin9

I ask Chat for a bill every couple of months.

EssexHebridean

Ironically enough when we were with them for our gas only barely a couple of days passed without me getting either a text or an email from them badgering me about having a smart meter fitted. It wouldn't have done them much good mind - the electricity meter isn't Smart yet... 

sully1311

molerat said:

Anyone else use EDF without a smart meter and am I missing something?

Yes, I do and yes you are

Work it out yourself.  I could tell you in about 5 minutes what my gas cost has been since the last bill, it ain't rocket science as they say.

edit: £77.29, there you go.  And that included reading my meter, downloading the CV values from NG and working out the average and calculating the bill.

Ooooh, the edit time. 8 minutes is closer to 10 minutes than 5. 

[Deleted User]

The opposite of the posts that we have been seeing recently with people saying "why is my supplier billing me monthly now and not quarterly, I don't want to pay so often as that!"

molerat

sully1311 said:

molerat said:

Anyone else use EDF without a smart meter and am I missing something?

Yes, I do and yes you are

Work it out yourself.  I could tell you in about 5 minutes what my gas cost has been since the last bill, it ain't rocket science as they say.

edit: £77.29, there you go.  And that included reading my meter, downloading the CV values from NG and working out the average and calculating the bill.

Ooooh, the edit time. 8 minutes is closer to 10 minutes than 5. 

There was a couple of re-edits in there 

pochase

If you just want to know a very broad amount of you what you are using just read the meter and deduct the last reading. Multiply this with £1.2 (11.2 * 10.3p = £1.1639) and you know what you used since the last reading. 

This is assuming you have a m3 gas meter. (check the meter if there is a m3 or a ft3 label on the meter).

inspectorperez

Yes I have EDF as my supplier for 2 properties, one of which is Dual Fuel and the other is Economy 7. Neither property has smart meters.

Billing is every six months and I work out costs each month in a simple spreadsheet to ensure monthly DD's are on track.

I have no desire to have smart meters installed and will only consider changing that view if I see a tangible financial benefit for myself.

Gobsh

rothesy said:

Hi.  I look after three accounts with EDF, they got moved there when ZOG Energy closed.  I have been getting bombarded with text messages and emails from EDF telling me to get smart gas meters installed.   I was tired of it so agreed.  I really don't see the point as like you said they only want two readings each year.  I just want them off my back.

Yeap. They will Badger you for smart meters because they are targeted in smart meter fitting, however, it seems that provided one meter is smart, they have fulfilled their target, which is why I can't get them to convert my gas meter