That may well be the case, but after one of the various changes in responsibility for the reading and upkeep of meters, those then in charge made an across the board decision to remove all electronic gas meters previously installed. The guy who did mine was under the impression it was because of battery issues.
Please tell us where you learnt that smart meters do bill for imaginary power.
UK Power Networks (in the document I've already cited) last year stated:
"Domestic customers have historically been billed only for their real power consumption where whole current metering is used. Customers using CT metering have been billed for reactive power where their consumption is excessive; typically in excess of 33% of their active units; representing a power factor of 0.95.
It isn?t proposed to start charging domestic customers for their reactive energy consumption ? this would reflect a significant change in existing charging methodologies. However, by gaining visibility of domestic customers reactive energy consumption, we could start to target installations with DNO-supplied solutions or education on how to improve power factor."
Were they lying? Or has something changed since then?
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com laid this down on his screen :
Under special/ abnormal circumstances. No meter could possibly be designed to measure all types of consumption with absolute accuracy, rather they are designed for the usual mix of load types, they can expect to come across out in the field. Test them exclusively with a weird, specially chosen load, then expect weird consumption bills.
I could do a door to door survey, but that would be rather pointless, I know without the survey that I have lots of equipment generating weird waveforms.
My bills are what really matter, the crux of the argument. You suggest the meters over charge (money/bills), I have seen no evidence of this at all and I have had several SM's in the past four years.
There's also the huge additional payload of demand-side switching to avoid investing in infrastructure and ability to remotely disconnect users for when the proles need teaching a lesson. Admittedly not techincal reasons, but reasons enough.
Just because a smart can measure apparent power doesn't mean that the supplier can use it. It would be illegal under the current consumer laws even if its allowed on commercial premises.
Brexiteers will make stuff up about anything even if its nothing to do with brexit.
You're lucky - mine's just been read and the frost pad (the old 'block' was much easier to manipulate) was on edge, so 'must be replaced' means 'can't be arsed'. The way taht this 'Summer' is going, a hard frost wouldn't surprise me!
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