♥️ I love my smart meter because........

Spoonie_Turtle

Rolandtheroadie said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

 Saved £72 on our electric bill last month as we're on Octopus Cosy. Only available as we have the smart meter. 

I am interested in this as we reckoned we could only average 23p kWh on cosy so Tracker has been better for now with our heat pump and we don't have to avoid 4-7pm.

We're high energy users with 6 of us in the house. 6 electric showers per day, 2 x washing machine loads, 2 x drier loads, 1 x dishwasher load then everything else. 

Wow.  Do you mind if I ask what your annual electricity usage is?  Just for my own curiosity, as there are 4 of us and we are high users too but for different reasons.

MultiFuelBurner

Rolandtheroadie said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

 Saved £72 on our electric bill last month as we're on Octopus Cosy. Only available as we have the smart meter. 

I am interested in this as we reckoned we could only average 23p kWh on cosy so Tracker has been better for now with our heat pump and we don't have to avoid 4-7pm.

We're high energy users with 6 of us in the house. 6 electric showers per day, 2 x washing machine loads, 2 x drier loads, 1 x dishwasher load then everything else. 
 Dinners ready for 4 as it normally was, heat pump was switched off completely between 4 and 7 although I'm trying something else now. 
 Just checked again, it was only a £35.66 saving last month. Average price 23.66p per kWh

Hope you don't mind me saying but you would have been better off on tracker and to boot not had to fit things in the cheaper 6 hours and avoided 4-7pm..

Foxy16

I am with Octopus and looking to get smart meters to go on tracker, my electric meter is at the top of the wall in the hallway, but my gas meter is outside approx. 12' from the electric, is this likely to cause a problem?

Netexporter

Foxy16 said:

I am with Octopus and looking to get smart meters to go on tracker, my electric meter is at the top of the wall in the hallway, but my gas meter is outside approx. 12' from the electric, is this likely to cause a problem?

Should be OK. My IHD is 10 metres and two concrete walls away from the meter and still gets a signal. So meters less than 4 metres apart shouldn't have trouble communicating.

t0rt0ise

Foxy16 said:

I am with Octopus and looking to get smart meters to go on tracker, my electric meter is at the top of the wall in the hallway, but my gas meter is outside approx. 12' from the electric, is this likely to cause a problem?

My meters are similarly distant from each other and fine. They are both indoors but one downstairs and one upstairs on opposite corners of the house. My gas meter does miss a few half hour readings but that is common for gas meters anyway, and on tracker they then just smooth it over the month instead. I've still saved over £500 this year with the gas and I don't think it makes much difference.

Netexporter

Tomorrow's You and Yours phone-in is on smart meters. Should be good for a bit of tin-foil hattery.

wild666

I had  smart meter installed in 2015 to get free electric from BG I really hit the electric usage for the 8 hours it was free every Sunday sometimes using up to 10 kWh in the 8 hours having the electric cooker oven on as well as the electric fire. I also saved my washing and drying until a Sunday so that I got it all free. Whilst it was free I would turn on everything that used electric except the shower. 
Now the present supplier can read the electric meter but not the gas meter so I have to give them readings every month or so. Whilst I was with BG I didn't have to send in meter readings but with my first move @I had to send in both electric and gas readings as they couldn't read the meters remotely. with my send and third move they could read the electric but not the gas but I sent in readings anyway just so they wouldn't estimate any readings. It's the same with the present supplier the gas needs a manual reading but not the electric.

Rolandtheroadie

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

 Saved £72 on our electric bill last month as we're on Octopus Cosy. Only available as we have the smart meter. 

I am interested in this as we reckoned we could only average 23p kWh on cosy so Tracker has been better for now with our heat pump and we don't have to avoid 4-7pm.

We're high energy users with 6 of us in the house. 6 electric showers per day, 2 x washing machine loads, 2 x drier loads, 1 x dishwasher load then everything else. 

Wow.  Do you mind if I ask what your annual electricity usage is?  Just for my own curiosity, as there are 4 of us and we are high users too but for different reasons.

Think we'll be close to 12000kWh per year, give or take 100kWh. Approx 5600 of that is for our ASHP

Rolandtheroadie

MultiFuelBurner said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

Rolandtheroadie said:

 Saved £72 on our electric bill last month as we're on Octopus Cosy. Only available as we have the smart meter. 

I am interested in this as we reckoned we could only average 23p kWh on cosy so Tracker has been better for now with our heat pump and we don't have to avoid 4-7pm.

We're high energy users with 6 of us in the house. 6 electric showers per day, 2 x washing machine loads, 2 x drier loads, 1 x dishwasher load then everything else. 
 Dinners ready for 4 as it normally was, heat pump was switched off completely between 4 and 7 although I'm trying something else now. 
 Just checked again, it was only a £35.66 saving last month. Average price 23.66p per kWh

Hope you don't mind me saying but you would have been better off on tracker and to boot not had to fit things in the cheaper 6 hours and avoided 4-7pm..

 In the past few days, I've changed some things on how I'm running the ASHP. It's now on through the 3 hour expensive rate. I'll have a look at their tracker tariff.

The_Hawk

I've just done an annual review of my smart meter tariffs. I'm on Intelligent Octopus Go for electricity and Tracker for Gas.

Compared to the Standard Variable Tariff my smart meter has allowed me to save on average:

• Electricity 30%
• Gas 40%

In cash terms my savings equate to £1,200 over the last 12 months, that's a reduction of a £100 per month on my direct debit.

Now that's smart.