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The display part does, but if your gas and electric meters are more than 10 metres apart, the signal may not reach. The old quantum meters (card meter)had changeable battery packs, smart meters don't, so if your battery goes, so does your gas. Then you have to wait for a new meter, and it may be a temporary one if the suppliers office is shut, so yet another journey made, but hey, you're doing your bit for the planet.
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To make more money.
According to NPower and and British Gas, the gas doesn't go off when the battery fails, instead, they receive an automated warning of the failure.
Anyway, I'm not going to let it eat my head.
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Much rather trust this Luddite than you..............http://paullewismoney.blogspot.com/2015/03/smart-meters-do-they-think-were-dumb.html
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Not if the meter electronics is connected to the unmetered side.
There will be some kind of connection to the metered side to measure useage, but the usage will be minute.
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Swapping supplier is not difficult, whether on normal meters, SMETS 1, or SMETS 2 - no difference. You just need to know your annual consumption, to work out which is the cheapest supplier - your bills will tell you your consumption. Most contracts include a clause about you agreeing to a SM. If you already have an SM v1, then likely will mean after you swap, you need to manually read them and forward the readings to your supplier.
Only the indoor display's power is charged to the customer and use of that is optional. The meters internal electronics is powered before the meter.
I can confirm that. Back in July I moved into a house with smart gas and elec meters. The gas meter display couldn't be activated manually and wasn't readable remotely by BG, so I couldn't take an initial reading. I concluded its battery was dead. Took BG until mid-October to get round to replacing the meter. No charge for any gas used (very little as it happened) in the meantime.
I have one here (recently fitted) and had an older one in previous house. For gas and elec.
Benefits:
Not having to remember to send readings.
Accurate billing (so my DD are adjusted down).
Live usage - identifying what drains power (the halogen kitchen spotlights in the last house used more power than all the other house lights combined), so upgraded them to led and fixed that.
Apparently the one I recently got is the "latest" so i can swap providers with ease. Apparently.
Downside:
None that I have experienced. I guess there's the privacy issue of power companies having fine grained usage data which is probably valuable and sold to someone.
That makes Big Brother all worth it.
Could you not tell that by the numbers printed on them?
50W is ten times 5W.
Both use less when switched off.
you could anyway.
Not yet.
In future being charged higher rate when you want to use electricity and normal rate when you don't will be good.
Hahahahaha
The benefit was I'd not considered it, they came with the old house. When I did, I realised there was pennies to be pinched.
Correct. There is no downside. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
Who really wants to read their meter in any case? Do all the smart meter luddites fear the energy companies knowing what they use? Hang on - surely they get that info' as soon as a reading is submitted in any case?
WTF are you smart meter luddites actually afraid of?
Lols.
Smart meters are being fitted on Government instructions; not the supply companies.
So, reverse the question and ask why.
Also please state what you think are the benefits to the user of smart meters.
So, reverse the question and ask why.
Also please state what you think are the benefits to the user of smart meters.
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