Smart Meter

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  • peedee
    peedee Club Member Posts: 9,499
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    #152

    I have had my smart meter for just over two years now and it has never given any problems. I had solar panels fitted just over a year ago and the readings I get from its monitoring devices have always been pretty close to that which the smart meter supplies to my energy supplier.

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  • KjellNN
    KjellNN Club Member Posts: 8,716
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    #153

    I am pleased we now have a smart meter as it means we can get paid more for the electricity we export, and for what we actually export as that works out to be a little more than half of what we generate from our panels.

    The Smets 1 meters were not that good if you have solar panels as some were recording export along with import, so we waited until we could get a Smets 2 version. This has worked fine since we got it 2 years back and the Octopus Mini, which is better than the supplied IHD, makes it easy to see what we are using. That, combined with a new boiler and a new control system, has allowed us to cut our gas use by over 35% and get almost 3 times as much for the electricity we export.

    Our meters are right next to each other so we do not have a problem with the gas meter not being able to contact the electricity one to send readings, unlike our daughter whose meters are about 15 metres apart and with 3 very thick house walls in the way. She needs to get a different type of gas meter to get things working.

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