Anyone Here Got A Smart Meter?

[barry1010]

Just wondering how much your electricity costs per hour when your house is 'resting', that is, using nothing other than what is plugged in overnight.
Mine seems to be 1p or 2p an hour.

[ummmm]

My sofas have to be plugged in. There is no way I'm pulling them out every night. Or resetting my cooker clock each day.

I do unplug my laptop and mobile phones.

[jno]

what's a plugged in sofa? Some sort of electric chair?

[barry1010]

joe, as I already said my CCTV cameras, NAS, etc have to be on overnight, as do the electric blankets. I'm not complaining about the cost or the amount used, I was simply curious as to my household compares to others. I can't switch one thing off at the wall socket because it would turn everything off that is connected to the extension lead.

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[barry1010]

My sofas are plugged in too - electric recliners

[jno]

thanks, barry

[ummmm]

Yes, electric recliners and they have USB ports.

[joeski53]

At that price per hr overnight that sounds good to me, but what are your bills per year? Everybody's are different really arent they, I dont have reclineres electric or CCTV for instance!!! Your best way of comparing is
1/ Your personal annual consumption in KWHrs.
2/ Comparison site to check what their rates are per KWHr.
3/ Takes about 10 mins to do this.
4/ The main benefit is it measures your own personal consumption costs.
5/ And you may get a better deal.

[teacake44]

No smart meter, don't see the point of them. I already have a meter that tells me what I use.

[joeski53]

Dont see the point teacake why?? Do you know what you spend hourly?
Meter readings?
Pros More accurate readings sent direct without you having to do it all the time.
Better understanding of your usage and costs.
You can have a direct impact on your costs and see at a glance whats costing you more.
They help create a smarter grid system in the 21st century. Surely this is better for the average user like you and me?

[barry1010]

I have a smart meter because the cheapest tariff I could find in my area insisted on it. A substantial saving on electricity plus £100

[teacake44]

12.30 I know what I spend.
My meter is accurate
I use what I have too, no more no less. If I boil a kettle for a cup of tea, and I watch the smart meter suddenly go up, am I going to switch it off and not use the kettle again?
To me its a load of tec that I don't need or want. I have tec items only if they are useful, other than that I avoid them.

[joeski53]

Thats the point teacake they arent as accurate, they never have been! Dont you get fed up sending meter reads every time they request one?
Dont you want to know why your bills are going up? and why? Whats costing you more? What you can do to reduce it? Like fill your kettle less so its not boiling a full kettle for 1 cup? Soon youll have to have one anyway, everybody will it will be ALL suppliers rules for switching anyway.

[bednobs]

careful you'll have a load of scaremongering in a moment about remote switch-offs

[teacake44]

Who says my meter is not accurate? No I don't get fed up of sending my meter readings, it takes seconds to do, ( and I know its an accurate reading) I don't wish for some dumb sitting in an office chair to miss read my smart meter. My bills go up and down the same as anyone else, with or without a smart meter. I already don't fill my kettle full, that would be stupid. I already know were I can reduce my bills, I've been doing it for years, I don't need some idiot sitting at a desk to tell me how, its all just common sense to me, and the norm. No one will force me to have a meter, the government dropped that idea some time back, I believe.

[New Judge]

I know exactly how much electricity and gas I have used each month because I read my meters. I know how much it costs me because I can do arithmetic. I did so long before I was asked to do it by my supplier so as I was in a billing dispute with my supplier and I needed the information to prove them wrong. Now all I have to do is provide the readings which takes me about two minutes. My gas and leccy consumption (in Kwh) has not varied by more than +/- 10% since the last major change to my arrangements when I had a new, more efficient boiler installed (after which my gas consumption decreased considerably). It may be a bit different this year as I usually take at least three holidays where my house would be unoccupied for five or six weeks and of course I have not done so. The price of my gas supply (per Kwh) is the cheapest it has been since I began keeping records about fifteen years ago. The price of my leccy (per Kwh) has increased by about 65% in that time because, of course, consumers have to pay for the hare-brained schemes designed to produce “green” electricity.

//careful you'll have a load of scaremongering in a moment about remote switch-offs//

Remote switch offs via smart meters, whilst a possibility, are not the biggest concern. The greatest advantage (for the suppliers) is that it will enable them to impose differential pricing. It will cost more to heat your home in the winter than it will in the summer and it will cost you more to light your home when it’s dark than when it’s light. You can rest assured that this is an absolute given. There are no advantages from a smart meter for the consumer. They don’t save you money; the only thing that does is the “off” switch. If you’re daft enough to boil twice as much water as you need to make your tea it is unlikely that a smart meter will change your habits.

[fcc]

Why do you need a smart meter,surely you must know that the more electrical goods you have switched on the more your bill is going to be.

[New Judge]

//...surely you must know that the more electrical goods you have switched on the more your bill is going to be//

Gosh! I never thought of that !!! :-)

[bednobs]

"Remote switch offs via smart meters, whilst a possibility, are not the biggest concern. "
not to you perhaps, but seemingly to people who usually post on these threads regarding smart meters :)

[bhg481]

NJ - did you ever work out how many years of gas savings it will take to repay the cost of your new boiler?

[joeski53]

Teacake you need to take a chill pill, its been well documented that smart meters create more accurate bills than a normal meter, also I might add a recent survey has indicated that suppliers are actually putting people who refuse to have a smart meter on higher tariffs, you'll be on one of them!!