Smart meters

If smart meters make such fantastic savings for those who get them fitted, why not charge those who've got them with the cost of fitting them? (and not those people who already understand that if you turn something off/down, it saves you money).

Smart meter roll out could cost households an extra £100 and means homeowners won't feel the benefit for five years, NAO report warns

Why the Government's pig-headed smart meter plan is the wrong answer to Britain's energy problem

 

Nor me. Apparently if mobile phone coverage is not good where you live smart meters are a bad idea; they don’t work properly. I won’t be getting one.

 

The COOP have just invited me to have one and I really can't see the advantage to me. It does not actively save me money and there is no guarantee that when I change supplier it will work.

 

Just a another bad idea that we have to pay for.
Nearly a million of those already fitted dont work

How SMART is that?

 

Everything will be fine because the power companies will be announcing big price cuts any day now because the price of oil has dropped like a stone in the last week.............yeh right!

 

@ARMANDII :giggle: :bigthumb:

 

It looks like the cat is out of the bag.

Just watched a TV commercial about smart meters - we're using too much energy - we won't be able to generate enough in the coming years - 'they' want to know when we are using energy...

Reason...to discourage energy usage during peak load times - by banging up the price.

I think this is also how it panned out in Canada with smart meters.

If 'they' would just be honest with the public, then more may have taken a smart meter.

 

Why would anyone need a smart meter, to advise them that an appliance left on for three hours is more expensive than using it for one hour ?

As stated earlier up the thread, it is so they can bring in alternate pricing at peak times

 

Yeah they are using kids in the advert, is that supposed to make us feel guilty.