I shouldnât worry about that mmdh, I get umpteen letters from EON about my meter is old so we have to change it. Itâs a load of bolxs, just bin them. 
Realistâs got it right
And just as an addition to what Realist saysâŠ
A smart meter sends a signal to a base station, the same as your mobile phoneâŠIt can be hacked into by unscrupulous people and interfered with, or even used to cut off or limit your supply.
Once again, sound advice.
I have been changing suppliers for a number of years now, usually every year. So far, I have always stuck with the (cheapest) of the big suppliers but if and when the smartmeter threats begin, that will change.
They keep trying to get me to have a smart meter installed. I donât want one.
Iâm already aware what uses my electricity and how much and for how long. Iâm not yet senescent enough to forget to switch things off.
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Iâve got one of these, they were handed out to the over sixties when Boris was Mayor of London. Runs on batteries, works wirelessly, interesting at first especially watching it go up when the kettle is on. The batteries went flat, and I never bothered replacing them.
I fear smart meters will be used to dictate to us when we can or canât use electricity by raising the charges at certain times of the day putting all the âpowerâ in the hands of the suppliers.
I guess this could be an even bigger problem when more people have electric cars that need charging.
The smart meter as advertised wonât save me a penny. I already read my own meter every month and send in the reading so the company donât need to pay someone to read my meter. I donât need a smart meter to remind me to turn appliances and lights off when possible, some of us live on very small incomes and do this automatically.
What is it these days with the word âSmartââŠ?
We seem to be bombarded with:- SMARTmeters, SMARTphones, SMARTcars and even SMARTmotorwaysâŠTheyâre not SMARTâŠthey just dispense informationâŠ
Bob I guess they are âsmartâ in that they are intended to âthinkâ on our behalf, well I prefer to think for myself thank you :twisted:
I quite agree, but I am more concerned about a related problem.
The generation of electricity is, like so many important matters, is being pretty much ignored by our incompetent government.
Coal-fired power stations are being closed down in order to placate the eco-warriors. Some now burn wood, which is still creating the CO[SIZE=â1â]2[/SIZE] that the same people detest.
All of those lovely windmills, which only work when the wind is not too strong or not too weak, are grossly inefficient and fail to provide our needs.
They talk reassuringly about our one new nuclear power station and, like anything else to do with infrastructure, seems to take donkeysâ years to build.
In the meantime, we pay the Frogs (with their plethora of nuclear power stations) to provide our electricity. I wonder how long that will continue when we have left their little dictatorship.
Despite our needs continuing to increase in line with our population increase and the popular trend for electric cars, nothing substantial is being done.
I havenât noticed any power cuts yet, but they will come!
I donât see how the new meters can save energy usage. I already know that when I turn on the light, TV or anything else, itâs going to use more electricity. If I turn them off, it saves it. Same with gas appliances Iâm not going to turn anything on unless I want it running.
I pretty much know how many watts anything in our house uses anyway without being told and Iâm not going to leave the gas running unnecessarily.
Iâll keep the old gas and electric meters. The person who comes around to read them keeps a job.
I agree. Although I have one, itâs a complete waste of time. All that it tells me is how much electricity or gas I am using at one particular moment. It make no difference whatsoever to my final energy bills.
It saves you having to answer the door in your pyjamas when the meter reader calls. 
Not necessarily. I donât wear pyjamas, and I wouldnât want to shock anyone!
Assuming they have a key, they can look in the two cabinets outside on their own.
In actual fact, they never do call! In theory, I receive occasional e-mail messages advising me that my regular payment has been collected. It is my responsibility, of course, to check whether I am in credit or debit. Usually the former at this time of year.
Reading some of the posts on this topic am beginning to understand how some people think that 9/11 was an inside job.
Ah, ours is inside under the stairs.
Very true but it depends If you know what you are going to pay or the SHOCK of the bill when it arrives:lol:
Just for info
Iâve noticed a couple of times now that some people mistakenly think the Smart Meter is the âhandyâ gadget that they give you to monitor your energy usage around the house.
Be VERY clear. That is NOT the Smart Meter, thatâs just a gadget and has absolutely nothing to do woth things.
The Smart Meter is the small round device attached to the side of your house where you used to have an old meter that you had to get the reading off.
Smart Meters DO NOT and CAN NOT save you money.
They will do the exact opposite. They will double or treble your bills ONCE they begin Variable Rate Billing.
Until that happens your Smart Meter will seem little different to your old one, though unbeknownst to you it is likely your body is being irradiated with strong mobile communications signals pretty much all teh time you are in the house. Itâs like having a mobile phone mast bolted to the side of your house. Really not something I want.
Any newbies to this whole Smart Meter situation should do their research here first.
What happened on the 9th of November Galty?