Utility bills gone through the roof. Blame Brexit?

[vetran]

they would probably be better off offering IP based Efergy like sockets that measured and switched sockets and a central tool.

cost £10 a socket, deployment by user (like a fire tv).

Socket switches on at night transmits power usage of 2kw and discount of 10-20% applied to that 2kw of cost on bill.

100,000 houses on webeconomy7 for £2m. You can probably get the customer to pay for the socket.

[Mordac]

Just had the call from our supplier; "we need to install a smart meter as it's now compulsory."

Me "Oh no it isn't".

Them (after a very long on-hold pause) "We'll get back to you".

And that's British Gas ffs.

[BR14]

Just had the call from our supplier; "we need to install a smart meter as it's now compulsory."

Me "Oh no it isn't".

Them (after a very long on-hold pause) "We'll get back to you".

And that's British Gas ffs.

yes, i had that yesterday with SP
chancers

[Benny]

How come nobody has figured out how to hack these things to signal a much lower electricity usage? Come on chaps, sure we could do it.

They have in built sensors to detect strong magnetic fields, so the old leccy hack of putting a strong magnet next to the device will raise an alert

HTH

[milanbenes]

Wasn't the idea behind this that you could bung the dishwasher and washing machine on overnight when demand was lower (benefit for the generators) and so a price differential could be introduced (benefit for the consumer). Is this not the case?

how can we do that we run our dishwasher 3 times a day and sometimes 4 at the weekend

I'm not staying up all night loading and unloading the dishwasher, had enough experience of that with the tapes.

ffs.

Milan.

[shaunbhoy]

how can we do that we run our dishwasher 3 times a day and sometimes 4 at the weekend

I'm not staying up all night loading and unloading the dishwasher, had enough experience of that with the tapes.

ffs.

Milan.

Just do as I do and get the Butler to do it.......

HTH

[Mordac]

They have in built sensors to detect strong magnetic fields, so the old leccy hack of putting a strong magnet next to the device will raise an alert

HTH

Crapita have some sort of association to these things, so I doubt their sensors are even capable of detecting whether they're connected to the f**king grid...

[d000hg]

I can see the idea of being able to track your usage, live, and to get pretty graphs and so on. But those are quite minor things... and you can buy 3rd-party things pretty cheaply which give the same functionality IIRC? Though that said for poorer people having to buy something even cheaply is not a big help.

Cos I'm so exciting, I have a spreadsheet of regular readings.

[Mordac]

I can see the idea of being able to track your usage, live, and to get pretty graphs and so on. But those are quite minor things... and you can buy 3rd-party things pretty cheaply which give the same functionality IIRC? Though that said for poorer people having to buy something even cheaply is not a big help.

Cos I'm so exciting, I have a spreadsheet of regular readings.

You must get invited to so many parties...