Smart meter - "Your electric meter has reached the end of its life"

The meter is not the responsibility of the DNO. He needs to contact whoever he pays the electric bill to.

 

And how much do you think is added to your bill to pay for the 4-7pm peak because there is no incentive for anyone with standard tariffs to shift their demand?

Having a smart meter has literally saved me £500 in the last 12mo due to the available export and smart tariffs vs standard cap.

 

I watch the TV advert with a Freddy Boswell look alike clapping his hands to turn lights on/off, and think how do they get that past the advertising standards authority? The lights will not turn on/off by clapping hands, and with a Mars bar they were told with their work, rest and play add, prove it, same with Mackeson looks good tastes good and by golly it does you good, so how do they get away with those adverts?

But if they lie so blatantly, then what's wrong with them? It is clearly some form of scam.

 

The claims made about Mars bars and Mackeson are true.

 

Your normalcy bias is shining through. We’ve entered a new Paradigm where previous assumptions can’t be taken for granted.

 

Both are still available in local supermarkets, Mackeson stills sells without any advertising at all, Mars bars are a shadow of their former selves.

 

I’m really not sure about that at all. Look at the power failures in London over the Christmas period a few years ago. The public reaction was huge ! If power outages went on for more than a few days, particularly without some huge justification, then I reckon the government would fall.

We’re simply not tolerant to power outages nowadays. Think back to when I was a kid in the 1970s and power cuts were common. No government or power company would ever get away with that now - they’d last 5 minutes.

 

Yep I think more than one government will fall before this is over.

 

Yes, the 'Smart' meter can be programmed to be a credit or a pre payment meter, remotely through the mobile phone network. We all know that with a pre payment meter, when the money runs out, the lights go off. That requires a switch in the meter. In the case of the Smart meter, the remaining credit is kept on the suppliers main computer, when it runs out a signal is sent to the meter to switch off. That same signal can be used to switch off any individual consumer remotely, for any reason, including high local demand. We are entering uncharted territory with the promotion of electric cars and electric heating, this extra load will quickly overload the distribution system and require load shedding, just right for the smart meter to do. For those who believe the system will take the extra load, go to Norway or Sweden, look at the size of their pole mounted transformers, all houses have 3 phase and their electricity is cheap as it does not come from gas or oil.

 

I wish I had you faith in the humanity of corporations.

 

And yet UK demand is currently significantly lower than its historic peak.

 

It’s nothing to do with humanity, I just don’t think we’ve got the supply to cover all we’re going to need.
our smart **** politicians don’t think ahead enough and so we’re always at the limit.
Sometimes how close we are is scary you can check it here in real time:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

 

Always disappoints me when I see the levels coming in via interconnectors We should be self sufficient by now as a nation.

 

Yep and we’re not - not even close.

 

Pot end the service!

 

My mate stays up north (near Inverness) and SSEN recently published plans for a sub station in his village (<100 houses) which was to be the size of 10 football pitches.
This substaion did not go ahead but it was seen as softening the locals up so they allow something smaller

My mate then went to a meeting and found out this was needed to export power to the rest of the UK, apparently Scotland produces double what it needs now but by 2020 it will produce 10 times what it needs.
The problem is not generation but transmission.

This cheesed my mate off.

 

In reply to the original post- ask your supplier for the actual details of your sepcific meter and ask them for the actual life span of that meter (as detailed with the manufacturer)

I feel the need to point out that dumb gas meters can last for 50 years but smart gas meters need the battery replaced every 8-12 years - and thats progress?

 

They are welcome to pop round to change the meter or battery whenever they like all the time I’m saving £500 a year with the thing.

 

Something to do with the price per kWh perhaps and the number of energy heavy, narrow profit businesses that have been forced to close?