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Im not questioning that. People intelligently looking at their usage and choosing tariffs accordingly should be applauded.
I’m arguing with the “smart meter = bad” posters this thread has attracted.
They never turned up to fit my smart meter
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Im not questioning that. People intelligently looking at their usage and choosing tariffs accordingly should be applauded.
I’m arguing with the “smart meter = bad” posters this thread has attracted.
Octopus Go works really well for charging EV’s
I have a timer setting in the apps for my car and home charger, to start and stop charging at set times/days. I use the the charger app - Pod Point. So I plug the charger into the car and it only charges the car during the time I set.
Every day is like this.
It's a fascinating subject for sure. I knew about the older systems (that was like 22:00-05:00 cheaper power iirc) so you could technically work to these times provided you knew what you were doing. It's great that they've pushed it forward like this.
The industry is very much heading down this route, the savings to be made are absolutely astronomical. The building I mentioned earlier saved about £3m pa in the first year of having their energy usage profiled. We fine tuned it so well that if a single fan coil unit was running at night, it'd tell us the hourly cost. If you care, here's an ad for one of the products we used:
You came across as suggesting people who hadn't gone down the same route as you weren't smart.
Soldato
I got smart meters purely so I don't have to grub around on the floor trying to read a half buried spider infested gas meter with a torch any more.
Soldato
I imagine if off peak / surge poetics tariffs start to become available we'll see more instances where safety is played against cost.
Eg the recent fairy dishwasher advert advising people to put the dishwasher on at night vs the fire brigade pointing out how dangerous it can be to run appliances like that when no one's awake.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fairys-dishwasher-tablet-tv-advert-6873598
Just an interesting side effect I guess, unavoidable that running appliances at night will be incentivised, but companies should probably avoid actually advising people to do so...
Eg the recent fairy dishwasher advert advising people to put the dishwasher on at night vs the fire brigade pointing out how dangerous it can be to run appliances like that when no one's awake.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fairys-dishwasher-tablet-tv-advert-6873598
Just an interesting side effect I guess, unavoidable that running appliances at night will be incentivised, but companies should probably avoid actually advising people to do so...
Soldato
Slight flaw in the energy companies "everyone get a smart meter" plan..... I can't get one as apparently I "Have the wrong type of meter installed currently"
U wot m8
U wot m8
Soldato
they aren't, they didn't get a smart meter.
lots of appliances have a delay start mode. Might be worth having a look.
yeah, just if people were worried about turning it on while they sleep.. fire risk, do people goto sleep before 11?
Soldato
Quite frankly, I don't see the energy companies ever wanting to do anything that has you paying them less, that just seems like bad business.
It leaves me suspicious of these meters.
It leaves me suspicious of these meters.
If you think about when you use electricity, running an electric oven, telly on, laundry on, all when you get in from work before bed. That creates a lot of demand. You need to build enough power generation to supply that peak power. The rest of the time, the generators just work less which is “wasted” capacity. If you off set the peak, you need to build less generators, but run them for longer.
there’s a lot more to it, but that’s the general gist.
the cheap tariffs aim to encourage that offset.
gas?
And only made possible because your particular situation allows 95% of your electricity consumption to take place between 00:30 and 04:30.
I would certainly recommend getting good quality, mains fed, linked, smoke detectors fitted before worrying about energy prices.
that is, if you are worried about fires.
also modern heat pump tumble dryers are not only much more energy efficient, they run at much lower temperatures and are far less of a fire hazard.
Soldato
Put a fire door between the kitchen with any appliances and where you sleep. This is standard advice from fire service for anyone afaik
https://fsri.org/programs/close-before-you-doze
https://fsri.org/programs/close-before-you-doze
Soldato
Yea that's fraud..
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