dennis@home wrote
Martin Barclay wrote

Smart meters - 5 points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQT16jBFEw

Well that's pretty much BS.

Smart meters save you money even if you don't have one as they don't need
an army of readers to go out and read them.

And are more convenient if you read the meter yourself currently.

They can save you money as some companies are now offering different
tariffs to customers with smart meters as they can give free days or
variable tariffs. If your lifestyle fits one of these tariffs you save
money if it doesn't, well neither does the one you are on.

As for data mining, well just what can you tell from a meter reading every
few minutes? Answer not a lot. Is it worth anything, well to them as
buyers of energy yes,

Not really, because they can see that in the gross load figures.

Unless they believe that their customers are atypical or something.

to anyone else probably not.

And I couldn’t care less what data mining they do anyway.

Those that supply my mobile and landline services have
always been able to do that and I choose to pay for
anything that I buy electronically because that is much
more convenient than using cash with all except garage
sales and I couldn’t care less that they know what I buy.

In fact both our major supermarket chains give me
a subset of their specials by email based on what
I have bought and that is more convenient that
combing thru the entire specials brochure every week.