British Gas meter charging 1 night rate / off peak unit every 24hrs - but nothing is switch on?

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Gerry1 said:

Looks like you have at least one big problem.

Before we go making too many assumptions, it would be very helpful if @pammer could post a photo of his meters, consumer units and any associated electrickery.
It's possible that his system is configured normally.

Scot_39

As some posts above point out - there are differences between house wiring - and metering configurations.

And you don't need a 5 port meter for E7 - it's just a more integrated approach - a 4 port controlling an external contactor - works just as well.

And E7 on the tariff label - doesn't mean E7 metering - those with some other simpler forms of multirate - e.g. some WM (upto 8.5 hrs off peak in some regions) and even on E10 meters - were allowed on E7 tariffs.

Legacy systems - often twin meter - had all sorts of variations - in some - upto 4 charge bands - and 3 internal separately metered circuits (SP white meter comfort plus or some such - was about the most complex I have come across - as were also allowed a cricuit for specific heating etc active 24.7 - so bathroom fans, living room fires, cookers ? etc ).

And have seen some posts here where new meters were fitted badly - for instance one where the 2 lives - switched and unswitched from a 5 port meter - where actually then tied at a henley - and then fed out of the cabinet to consumer units.

Pictures might help - but perhaps the system is just operating normally.

The OP after all states they were used to a multimeter system - and now on a smart single meter - the second single meter - both of which are now incrementing 1kWh unit overnight.

So suspect the most likely explanation is as @CSI_Yorkshire above - the new E7 recording normal overnight use across the whole house (7 hrs fridge a little tv / lighting etc).  

It seems strange though that the smart meter read 0's on the night register (I assume) for several days.

Is it possible that it wasn't dual rate configured at install - and perhaps it was only configured for E7 time slots remotely after install (wasn't my experience a few years back - but might explain the behavior) ?