On 20/09/2013 16:30, Chris J Dixon wrote:
Michael Chare wrote:

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.

As we discussed a few months ago, and the report at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22480068

says, the official "Smart Meter" roll out is running late.
However, various companies are providing what could best be
described as meters which are smarter than the old ones, which
will probably have to be swapped or modified in order to be fully
compliant when the final standards are agreed.

And how many of them will support remote upgrades one wonders?


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Cheers,

John.

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