Smart meters

Your Cash, Loofah!!, as it's all added to your Bill, as is the environmental/green taxes that add a substantial cost to your energy bill.
So while you don't pay for it directly [i.e: up front], you do pay for it via the additional taxes. It's a case of "smoke and mirrors" when it comes to Energy Companies, and the Government, explaining what actual taxes are levied on bills. A lot of people don't realise that the cost of the "free" or discounted insulation of Houses is, in fact, being paid by domestic energy users [i.e: you and I] via the Green taxes on your energy bills.

 

You're sooooo cynical, Pete. It's probably just an "oversight" by BG

 

Nup, EVERYONE's bill! Cripes, if I had to pay for you all I'd never afford my private island in the Seychelles.
But that deal is already done and people are paying for the meters whether you have one fitted or not so why not have one?

My biggest niggle about the 'smart' meters is that no-one thought to include water and to ensure that the meters would work cross-utility company. That's just stupid and incompetent. It means that sooner or later I'll need a replacement meter adding to the overall cost and sooner or later I'll end up with one stamped on the water too. Saying it out loud, maybe it's all in the governments plan...

 

Scan the QR code on the last bill from BG

 

There's one going next to mine, Ziggys, FC's, Woo's and Marley Farley's, fairly cheaply, loofaf, but it does have an active Volcano on it.

For quite a few reasons as listed in some to the posts on the thread, loofah, but it is a personal decision to have a Smart Meter or not.

 

True, but thanks for helping foot the bill

 

@CanadianLori

I'm not sure how they do it nowadays but I work in the old fashioned way

I still enter depreciation etc. in the bottom section of my P&L account and it's transferred to the Balance Sheet.

 

If my company tries that one on me I'll be demanding that they tell me how they can justify charging me more.