"John Horne" wrote in message
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A friend of mine asked the local electricity company to install a "white
meter",
Economy 7 type thing to power his night storage heaters.

The company said that it is not their policy to install such meters anymore,
and that it is all done by computer.......!! This answer intrigued me, any
idea what the chap was talking about?

With my economy 7 supply I have a single meter for the whole house with one
supply
The meter records off peak and on peak usage.

It is my responsibility to make sure that any devices that I want to power by
off peak electricity are only connected to the supply at the appropriate time
(which I do by using a time switch.)

Michael Chare