Electricity meter inspection

Pound Coin said:
Which is a fundamental problem. Growing the need without having what is needed to supply it.
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Even if we come half way to our target by 2030 for wind we will smash fossil fuels

Future ProjectionsThe UK government has set a target to deliver 50 GW of offshore wind by 2030, with 5GW expected to come from floating wind. This will result in a significant increase in the current capacity. To meet this target, the UK must build another 2,600 wind turbines costing £48 billion by 2030.

our current total daily usage is about 30GW allowing for only 50% of that to be available at any one time, worse case 25GW topped off in the day with solar :)

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Mr Bump said:
Tidal is good certainly cheaper than fossil fuel and nuclear but why do you care you fossil fuel denying relic?
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ecoleman said:
You really do come across as a petulant child. A bit like that puppet called Gretha.
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If anyone fancies a holiday break from the thread then please continue as you have been.
 
ecoleman said:
I’m not the one calling people childish names but if you want to ban me then knock yourself out.
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I've no desire to ban anyone, but if that's your wish it can easily be fulfilled.
 
ecoleman said:
I’m not the one calling people childish names but if you want to ban me then knock yourself out.
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i didn't call you childish names i called you a climate change denier which you display on your signature do you not?
 
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Let's not call each other anything, since labels can be applied in many ways and intentions misunderstood - or understood too easily.
 
any hoo another great day for those renewable electrons.

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Is this the TP equivalent of Godwin's Law? As any thread in The Lounge grows in length, the probability that it becomes about climate change, dinosaurs and Elon Musk tends to 1.

I've asked before and nobody has ever given me an answer beyond "I don't like change" - are there any real concerns about Smart meters? Or is it just "my broken meter ain't broke so there's no need to fix it"?

Also, re nuclear.....I'm getting a bit more interested in this than I was. You can more or less see Dungeness from my bedroom window - they have been decommissioning it for years. Last week there was a letter round from the council about a consultation on basically firing it up again. This in an area of the country that has so much solar and wind energy that 1 - 2 times a week Octopus literally give it away. Very odd. But nothing to do with Smart meters.
 
My advise is phone your electricity provider and ask them to arrange a visit. The meter is actually the property of the meter provider which is normal one of big companies. This was years ago when there was no competition when the utilities were public own..

My advise is do not have a smart meter as they have transmitted incorrect data, and the meter will be own by a third party !
 
Well, now that the dust has settled a bit what do people think now that they have had chance to reflect upon it? Eon keep pressing us to change our meter, and great play is made of Teleswitch being turned off. The problem I have with that, is that I'm not sure we have it. Despite having night storage heaters I always understood that they were controlled by an independent switch that you could operate manually. Secondly the aged P is convinced prices will go up if he has a smart meter.
 
I've had a smart meter for years now and I don't believe it to be causing any problems. It's through British Gas and saves me having to read the meters and submit them every month, something I often forgot to do. I think I can still check the reading on the physical meters anyway if I need to verify things.
 
They seem to have gone quiet on me for now, was a point where I was getting emails and texts weekly.
 
Plain Nev said:
Well, now that the dust has settled a bit what do people think now that they have had chance to reflect upon it?
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If someone wants one, they should have one. If someone wishes to retain their current system, they should keep it.

One reason that's been quoted for the companies desiring the change is to let them identify cheats. It occurs to me that, once there is a sufficient population of smart meters, the companies can spot trouble makers by dropping the smart meters out of their dataset and calculating the expected income from the rest. I used to run queries like that fairly often for various clients and if you're able to drop out enough "known correct" values, it's quite easy to identify the information you're after from the "unknown status" values.
 
The only facts I know about this subject are:
1. The low frequency Teleswitch signals will cease soon and then old two-rate meters (economy 7) will not work, they won't switch between the different registers for rate 1 and rate 2. So your night storage consumption will probably end up being charged at the day rate if you don't change the meter.
2. I had a smart meter installed when I lived in Wellingborough; it could never successfully transmit readings to the supplier network, so I still had to rely on my own readings for billing. I believe this is a fairly common problem especially if your property is built of stone or certain types of dense brick.
3. It is always worth running a check on your tariff against other suppliers using a switching service as I have very rarely had the cost of my electric/gas increse over the last 20 years, thanks to regular switching.
 
Plain Nev said:
Well, now that the dust has settled a bit what do people think now that they have had chance to reflect upon it? Eon keep pressing us to change our meter, and great play is made of Teleswitch being turned off. The problem I have with that, is that I'm not sure we have it. Despite having night storage heaters I always understood that they were controlled by an independent switch that you could operate manually. Secondly the aged P is convinced prices will go up if he has a smart meter.
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I really haven't spent any time reflecting on this. My views on smart meters have not changed.
 
It will be mainly hydrogen for heating in the near future anyway.
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Not Plutonium?
 
gerry s said:
It will be mainly hydrogen for heating in the near future anyway.
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Why not just use the electricity it takes to make the Hydrogen to heat homes instead, cut out the middle man :)
 
Just boughta house in GC and fantastically it has smart meters for water and leccy so when we are not there all gets read automatically
 
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