Can you swap suppliers if you have a smart meter?

[bhm1712]

as in the title, once you have been with a smart meter supplier, if you wish to swap to another supplier who does not do smart meters in the future can the smart meter be read as a normal one? as i understand it still has a kwh display. Or do you have to pay to have an old style meter fitted again?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Good Q.

Ask Ofgem.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Won't be long before they are all doing it though - the new possibilities for increasing revenue by charging more at peak times and/or improving their competitive positioning by facilitating consumption reduction by smart appliances will be too great to resist.

Particularly with the govt encouraging them to to it so that there's better granularity for targeted power cuts when generating capacity runs out...

 

[big-all]

i could be wrong but i believe the only things that can stop you transfering your supplier is excessive debt and
the length off contract you sighed

 

[Steve]

A meter is a meter is a meter. They all have a reference number, your property has a MPAN (whatever that is), so you can swap. How they read your meter is up to them - but all meters can be read like a traditional meter.

 

[mfarrow]

your property has a MPAN (whatever that is)

There's a good wikipedia article on that Steve.

but all meters can be read like a traditional meter.

A traditional meter would be 3' 3 1/3".

 

[ban-all-sheds]

No it won't, not unless we get this topic moved to Electrics Outside of the UK...

 

[Steve]

Indeed, a traditional metre is 100cm.