On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:12:52 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/02/2021 09:56, R D S wrote:
On 04/02/2021 08:24, Peter James wrote:
And so the matter now rests.Â* The moral of the story children is this,
that when the nice man asks you if you would like a nice smart meter,
kick him in the balls and run away and tell a policeman.


Yes.

When we had ours replaced a few years ago it involved 'the gas board'
coming out 3 times to fix leaks caused. And one callout from a plumber
that I paid because I needed it doing right then and there.
I've ended up with completely new pipework inside and out but that's
not really the point.

And when we changed supplier more recently the meters went into some
sort of error mode and couldn't be read. Much time wasted by email and
phone over a number of months to get that sorted.

So personally i've lost interest in being a money saving expert.

why on earth anyone thought that power companies would want to spend
money to allow their customers to save money, is beyond me.

The attraction for power companies to invest in smart meters is to be able
to manipulate the tariff/time allocation to suit their profit targets.