Re: Energy: SMART Meters
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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The point of smart meters is to save money on infrastructure not price gouge. They are giving you a financial incentive not to use power at (for example) breakfast, lunch and dinner time when power is most expensive.
I can only presume you are affiliated with the energy companies, government or EU or else are utterly deluded.
Smart Meters exist for the SOLE PURPOSE of heralding in the new billing system, charging different rates at different times of the day.
Everywhere smart meters have been rolled out, every country, the energy companies simply double the charge for energy used at peak time which of course is the time we most need it, when we get home from work, put the kettle on, cook dinner, watch TV, use the lights etc.
It's nothing more than an excuse to totally rip customers off, making them pay 2 or even 3 times the amount of money for their bills.
All the evidence elsewhere shows that Smart Meters make ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE to customers behaviours. The novelty of a domestic gadget showing energy usage wears off very quickly and people continue using energy just as they always did.
The energy companies are already providing all that energy at peak times right now, day in day out. They have no difficulty providing it.
All they are doing is finding a back-door way to double your charges nothing more nothing less.
How can people possibly benefit from this?
Do you expect them to get up at 3am in the morning to iron a shirt for work and then go back to bed?
Do you expect people to record all their favourite TV programmes and then wait until 2am to 5am to watch them?
It's patently ridiculous and is nothing less than a complete scam.
People should not fall for this. You WILL end up paying an absolute fortune for your energy.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/b...need-most.html