"Michael Chare" mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDOTorgDOTuk wrote in message
o.uk...
I am probably going to change my electricity supplier (i.e. the people I
pay for the supply) to make a small saving.

This has lead me to wonder about smart meters. I would quite like one if
it would provide the data for me to end up with an MS excel graph showing
how much power I use in each hour of the day. Is this likely to be
possible? I don't want to read the meter every hour, I could do that now.

From what I have learnt so far, not all meters are the same, and if you
have one and then change supplier, the new supplier may say that the meter
is incompatible with their systems.

I should say that as a way of life supplying meter readings once a year
and then sorting out the bill is quite good enough for me.


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Michael Chare

Smart meters are the precurser to the smart grid. It's all about peak
lopping so saving money and energy.
And cut off for non-payment and energy/demand/use regulation/control.
They are at nowhere near their ultimate potenial.
But easily converted once installed.

We'll all have one whether we like it or not.

There is a pliot project going on somewhere in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid