On 07/03/2015 12:27, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

The main consumer benefit quoted is that you can see your power
usage in real-time. This has been available for many years with
consumer self-install monitors, and smart metering is not required
to do this. Indeed, research with early smart meter adopters has
shown that after a couple of months, the interest in this wears
off, and consumers find that appliances actually cost vastly less
to use that they guessed beforehand, and they quickly stop
bothering to try saving.

And they see for themselves that devices such as phone chargers, and
tellies in standby mode use an immeasurably tiny amount of juice, in
direct contradiction to what the green brigade keep on saying.



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Mark
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