Smart meter dumb supplier?

[The Natural Philosopher]

nearly everything 'smart' is for dumb PEOPLE.

[FMurtz]

There is only one reason they push smart meters, money.

[Roger Hayter]

This is unsurprising as the word itself is a crass Americanism (unless referring to presentation) only ever used when patronising the uneducated.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Patronising the 'educated', actually.

The people who have been through the acquistion of 'received wisdom' and think that makes them smart.

I.e. the 50% of the nation who have been to some sort of 'uni' as against the 5% who have been to a real university, or left school at 16...

[Michael Chare]

I have just had a call from a woman from EDF "When would it be convenient for someone to fit a smart meter" answer "Never". She then starts asking me about how I submitted meter readings. I was tempted to resort to the usual vernacular expression.

[Peter Johnson]

Could be up to five hours in my experience, a couple of weeks ago. Power went off at 8.10am. Rang Western Power (distributor) when it hadn't come back on half an hour later. No problem in the area so a technician was sent, who turned up in a little van an hour later. He tested that power was reaching the meter but not leaving it, asking if I had a credit or PAYG account, credit, and left, saying the problem was with the meter. Phoned Ovo who agreed to send someone, target three hours. About three hours later, electrician phones to say that he would be late as the guy who should have been coming had not turned in. He looks at the meter, goes to phone Ovo and returns to ask if I had a credit or PAYG account. Feeding that information back to Ovo, power was restored in less than a minute. The Western Power guy obviously sussed what the problem was. I don't know if there was anything on the panel to say so, I didn't look. My meter status had been changed from credit to PAYG about a week before but Ovo didn't know why. Of course, if Ovo's call centre, given that there was no problem in the area, had asked me 'credit or payg?' power would have been restored less than two hours after it went off, and they'd have been saved the cost of the turnout and the £20 compensation they credited me with. (This was the day that I found out the gas fire wasn't working, a self-inflicted problem that cost £170 to fix.)

[Peter Johnson]

The same meter acts as credit or payg as required, as I discovered. See my other post.

[Peter Johnson]

Meant to say that it will do economy 7 as well.

[Andy Burns]

That's progress then, as most suppliers to date seem to exclude E7 users from having a smart meter.

[Max Demian]

Is it a standard 7 hours from around midnight? Or can they charge a different rate any time they like?

[Peter Johnson]

It's programmable so it will do anything they want.

[dennis]

e.on are looking at four six hour periods a day where you can select which two you want at a cheaper rate.

They don't say what rates ATM.

[Adrian Caspersz]

No, you need to take the quotes out.

everything smart is for dumb PEOPLE.

It's called dumbing down, an industry reaction to the fact that folks awareness and technical skills are slipping, and getting worse the older they get.

[Johnny B Good]

I think you have that last bit arse about face. The final phrase imho, should read "and getting worse the younger they are."

You neglect at your peril, the adage that seems to have been universally adopted across all customer facing industries, "There's one born every minute.". :-)

[Andrew Gabriel]

Happened to a local KFC - looked like the service head had caught fire, but it wrote off the whole place.

[charles]

when I was a student with the SESEB, I went to a building, originally, a house, but now 4 floors of offices, where the load was sufficient for the pitch in the cutout to melt and flow all over the floor.