On 26/05/2017 10:42, tim... wrote:


"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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"Phil L" writes:
In other words, you are now discovering why the power companies
wanted smart
meters installing everywhere. It's so that customers can't change
suppliers
as easily like in the past by using switching sites and apps....well
you can
swap suppliers, but you'll be given a six month runaround like this
every
time you do

Actually, main reason power companies were interested was because
they can cut off the supply without visiting the premises and
trying to gain entry.

More likely the fact that they no longer had to pay meter
readers, either directly or indirectly, to attempt to read every
single meter in the Country 4 times a year.

Long term Govt wise it also offers the possibility of energy
rationing - only so many Kw or BTU or whatever, per household
or per individual(per household) per day.

But that's hardly fair if you have electric heating.

When I has SR I used to use 18,000 units a year (and that was to keep
the house barely warm), now in a property without them 2,500. Where do
you set the limit that actually imposes some restriction on people who
only use electric for their lighting/entertainment equipment that
doesn't make life completely unbearable for people with electric heating?

It's all very well saying insulate better and change to gas, but not all
properties are suitable for that (the one in question wasn't)

tim

And what of those with electric showers; children who come home from
school with a filthy blazer that has to be washed, dried and ironed
ready for the next morning; that work from home and have PCs/servers
running; no longer work, so at home all day; have an electric car to
charge; use electric oven and hob - the list is endless.

SteveW