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10-12-2016, 10:31 PM
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Perhaps, but then we still have the right to change supplier - as often as we like with no penalty - and it is very easy to do. Competition is still the best thing for the consumer.

Won't all suppliers do the same as British Gas eventually though?
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10-12-2016, 10:44 PM
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Perhaps, but then we still have the right to change supplier - as often as we like with no penalty - and it is very easy to do. Competition is still the best thing for the consumer.
At the moment the smart meters are not compatable between companies, switch suppliers and the meter may have to be changed too

1.5 million smart meters won't work when you switch energy supplier
Smart meters will lose functions if householders switch to another energy firm, with a one-year wait before the problem is resolved
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...-supplier.html


I am hoping the natiowide roll out of meters will be halted when it becomes clear the whole project is being done to benifit the power companies not the public .
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10-12-2016, 10:56 PM
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Re: BEWARE Smart Meters Coming

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Yes, I feel much the same way Rehab.
They have asked me several times already if they can change me over but I've managed to fend them off so far.
They have yet to ask me, I am composing responses in my head, most of them seem to end in off

Have I got this right ....I am sure I read/heard that each energy company has a different smart meter? Making it very difficult to swap providers, something I tend to do on a regular basis, any comments on that?
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10-12-2016, 11:10 PM
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Re: BEWARE Smart Meters Coming

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They have yet to ask me, I am composing responses in my head, most of them seem to end in off

Have I got this right ....I am sure I read/heard that each energy company has a different smart meter? Making it very difficult to swap providers, something I tend to do on a regular basis, any comments on that?

Yes. Read Meg's post 22 about this. Seems they are all different. Stupid! (not you I meant the meter companies).
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10-12-2016, 11:16 PM
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I am hoping the natiowide roll out of meters will be halted when it becomes clear the whole project is being done to benifit the power companies not the public .
Seriously doubt that will happen. Too much money involved. Gov't as ever will be bought of with backhanders.
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10-12-2016, 11:17 PM
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Re: BEWARE Smart Meters Coming

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Yes. Read Meg's post 22 about this. Seems they are all different. Stupid! (not you I meant the meter companies).
Thanks Mups, I missed that, it would seem that we are between a rock and a hard place then?
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10-12-2016, 11:27 PM
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Re: BEWARE Smart Meters Coming

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At the moment the smart meters are not compatable between companies, switch suppliers and the meter may have to be changed too


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...-supplier.html


I am hoping the natiowide roll out of meters will be halted when it becomes clear the whole project is being done to benifit the power companies not the public .
So there's the answer: change companies every week!
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11-12-2016, 12:15 AM
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Re: BEWARE Smart Meters Coming

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Thanks Mups, I missed that, it would seem that we are between a rock and a hard place then?

Looks pretty much like it at the moment anyway.
It's all wrong isn't it.
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12-12-2016, 10:39 AM
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If it is the alleged health impacts, then one might want to worry about other sources of electro magnetic radiation. Your computer router for example, and that electric razor, you may want to give up shaving.
https://www.safespaceprotection.com/...outer-dangers/
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12-12-2016, 11:25 AM
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One of my neighbours has 'pay as you go' meters - how will Smart meters cope with that?
 
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