RTS SHUTDOWN AND THTC

Spoonie_Turtle

NorScot571 said:

I disagree that “all reasonable steps” is a weak obligation.  The preamble says must, in legal terms a much stronger obligation than should or may., There have been unrelated cases in the High Court where “all reasonable steps” has been explored in detail.

You've clearly never had a run-in with the phrase "reasonable adjustments" in the Equality Act 2010!  Just as in that law, the weakness here is in the word "reasonable".

MattMattMattUK

Spoonie_Turtle said:

NorScot571 said:

I disagree that “all reasonable steps” is a weak obligation.  The preamble says must, in legal terms a much stronger obligation than should or may., There have been unrelated cases in the High Court where “all reasonable steps” has been explored in detail.

You've clearly never had a run-in with the phrase "reasonable adjustments" in the Equality Act 2010!  Just as in that law, the weakness here is in the word "reasonable".

Exactly this,the threshold for "reasonable" is actually very low in almost every legal and regulatory implementation. 

THTC and similar tariffs are obsolete, loss making, subsidised by other energy users and will almost certainly be phased out entirely within five to ten years. 

Scot_39

I think from a post a while back here - Ofgem essentially have told supliers they can stop the tariffs as soon as rts lw signal shut off date.

But remains to be seen if that means June - as a recent post in last few days here said still c400k rts meters in use.  Much lower than Elexons last update.

Iirc others with old rmi have reported in posts here - been told - if not upgraded - they would be billed single rate svt only.

DE_612183

Personally I think you are fighting a losing battle - not you say you stop the battle!

RTS that dictate the internal elements of a customers supply are a thing of the past, probably left over from privatisation.

Are more and more people drop the system and move to a different type of heating the ability to actually maintain and administer such set ups will diminish to the point they are no longer supported - it looks like we are getting to this point now.

I understand that there are about 100k meters still in situ and these are being replaced at the rate of 1000 a day - much too low to remove all - however a large chunk of those may not actually be performing a function that affects the billing.

As you said, when the actual switch off takes place (June or September ) then there will undoubtably some people who won't have got the memo.