Standing charge

smarty23

Why when you have a smart meter and dual fuel do you pay two standing charges with British Gas?

MattMattMattUK

smarty23 said:

Why when you have a smart meter and dual fuel do you pay two standing charges with British Gas?

You pay a standing charge per meter, because each meter is connected to the grid and the grid that it is connected to requires maintenance, upgrades etc. 

la531983

One for gas, one for electric.

The meters being smart are irrelevant (currently, I can see a time when non-smart meters are penalised with higher standing charges maybe, but thats not happening anytime soon)

400ixl

You have two different infrastructures supplying your house, hence two standing charges to support them.

You still have two smart meters, just the gas meter connects to the electric one to send its data to the network.

Dolor

You still have two smart meters, just the gas meter connects to the electric one to send its data to the network.

Pedant warning.

The smart gas meter DOES NOT connect in anyway to the smart electricity meter. It connects to a secure communications hub that sits on top of the electricity meter. Data from the smart gas meter is passed to a Gas Proxy meter located within the comms hub via what is known as the Home Area Network (HAN): a Zigbee wifi network established by the communications hub.