Großbritannien drückt den Ausschalten des Energiemährens zurück – was Sie wissen sollten
UK pushes back energy meter switch-off – what you should know
Von MooseJess96
Großbritannien drückt den Ausschalten des Energiemährens zurück – was Sie wissen sollten
UK pushes back energy meter switch-off – what you should know
Von MooseJess96
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Trying to get a smart meter is like pulling teeth. I’m currently in between SGN wanting to replace my end of life meter with a non-smart meter, and when asking Octopus about making it a smart meter instead, they’re just giving vague mentions of queues.
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In severaly places the teleswitches work better than the new meters as they use a radio frequency that propogates better than the new ones that use (iirc) mobile bands
I fucking hate smart meters. I got one installed because of this so-called switch off and I had it in my kitchen for about a week before I moved it to the spare room where I never look at it.
It’s so intrusive having a computer someone else controls sat in my house telling me „budget exceeded“ when I didn’t set any budget and I don’t know what it comes from. Or the random moments where it decides to show weekly spend instead of daily and I have a fucking heart attack.
I have no idea how this is supposed to „save money“ because it’s literally just a reporting tool. I have to use my washing machine. I have to turn on lights and cook. This does nothing for my energy efficiency and is a source of never ending anxiety.
My folks were told their meter would be ‘switched off’ with quite aggressive letters. They’ve had two appointments where the engineers didn’t bother turning up, now they don’t have the people to do it in time
We had ours changed a couple of weeks back. Constant calls, letters and emails saying you need to change your meter but I rang up on multiple occasions over the last six months and never any appointments available. All they did was succeed in freaking me out. Still glad to have it done.
The smart meter still hasn’t connected to the reader though- they said it could take weeks.
Why is this necessary? A few years ago I was told my dumb meter was „reaching the end of life“. I called and asked what that meant and no-one could explain exactly what would stop it working.
Unsurprisingly it’s still going round and round today like it has been for the past however many decades it’s been there.
We’ve had three attempts where the engineer turned up and told us our meter can’t be changed over. Given up now.
They changed our neighbour’s identical meter without issue.