Smart Meters

[HFJL2020]

can  i  refuse  to  have  a  smart  meter  installed  thanks

[ToraToraTora]

Yes but your supplier may make it condition of supply. What's the problem? Just don't turn the monitor on.

[barry1010]

Or your supplier might charge you more for gas and electricity.

Mine has saved me a lot of money

[ubasses]

We did - no problem

[smurfchops]

Just wondered, if I move into a house with a smart meter, can I get it removed? 

[gingejbee]

Not too difficult to find the answer...

 

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/can-i-be-forced-to-have-a-smart-meter/

[Peter Pedant]

dont answer any of their smart meter letters

[Hopkirk]

My smart meter lets me get 5 hours of half price electricity on Sundays and one third price electricity for five hours every night to charge my car.

I don't ever bother with the in house monitor.

[douglas9401]

Why the fixation on the monitor? It's information only and the meters work regardless.

[Countrylover]

Ditto Hoppy. We never bother with looking at the monitor.  I can't see the problem with having one installed?  Is there one?

[-SharonA-]

I've got one and it is never on! 

[Old_Geezer]

Smart meters are still going to give the supplier control. Whether you have the separate display on or off won't be relevant.

 

Thing to beware of is the company insisting they have a legal requirement to replace your aging one and then not offering a normal meter.

[Countrylover]

We just changed suppliers  and they threw in a smart meter as part of the process.  That was a good few years ago now.  

[Redhelen72]

I don't understand this fear of smart meters.

If you have a SM the company still has to the legal process to cut you off as if you had a traditional meter.

[Countrylover]

It saves us having to move stuff and get a step ladder out so that meter readers that turned up unexpectedly to read the meter could actually read it.  

[1581960]

Smart meters: Almost three million still not working - BBC News

2.7 million reasons for not having one here.

[1581960]

That was supposed to be a link !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-67591320?at_campaign=KARANGA&;at_medium=RSS

[barry1010]

Newly installed smart meter will work, though.

OG, I don't know why you think you are in control of your electricity by not having a smart meter.  You didn't have a smart meter during the 1970s blackouts.

[hellywelly4]

I've had a smart meter for years - no problems at all.

[Old_Geezer]

It ain't about emergencies like blackouts of everywhere, it's more about monitoring and controlling individual consumers. Plus malicious sorts can interfere with such so called "smart" tech.

[Canary42]

The true capability of Smart meters will not be revealed until there are enough out there - and then it will be too late.