On 22/05/2021 21:19, Tim+ wrote:
wrote:
Spain is not often noted for leading the way but their new pricing for
electricity, which has three price periods per 24 hrs, and includes
weekends, seems better than the UK's E7 system.


Well maybe, but smart meters as being installed in the UK allow a lot more
flexibility. Spain are a bit ahead of the game in rolling out smart
meters.


The Spanish Smart meters are very similar to the UK ones except you
don't get an in house display. They also cap the maximum load.
You also have no option. You have to have one and you have to pay for it.


This along with proposed surge pricing (for periods of high demand which
could have had user agreed load shedding) was the great opportunity that
the UK government managed to waste with the superfluous (and entirely
passive) smart meters.


Superfluous? How to the the Spanish electricity meters know when and how
much power is being consumed throughout the day unless theyre also to a
degree €œsmart€�?


They are Smart. You just don't get an in house display.

We have all the tech to make it work here and its got nothing to do with
the government, its down to the power companies utilising the data
available to them, like Octopus have done with their Agile tariff.


I think this is what will happen in the UK.

Tim