Energy supplier switch over question

[Accy cyclist]

Has the new supplier started taking funds? If so, cancel the old DD

The new supplier hasn't yet emailed me asking for a reading. If i remember rightly they said the first 2 months will be estimated bills of £44, until a smart meter is fitted.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Serious but maybe a dumb' to some question, How can a smart meter read gas amounts used? Please don't tell me they can't and i still have to climb under the fecking sink with my torch!!

 

[Lozz360]

Smart meters transmit the readings automatically to your provider. So you can look back at the times you had to squeeze under the sink with a torch and chuckle. Should you wish to obtain your meter reading, for whatever reason, you do so by scrolling through the info on the smart meter.

 

[400ixl]

Serious but maybe a dumb' to some question, How can a smart meter read gas amounts used? Please don't tell me they can't and i still have to climb under the fecking sink with my torch!!

If they are fitting a dual fuel smart meter then yes it will be able to measure gas flow to show consumption.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Serious but maybe a dumb' to some question, How can a smart meter read gas amounts used? Please don't tell me they can't and i still have to climb under the fecking sink with my torch!!

There is the main electric smart meter. Then a separate smart meter that measures gas usage. The latter transmits it data back to the supplier via the former .

 

[Drago]

With all the carnage in the energy market at the moment, and a lot of smaller companies expected to go to the wall, I'm quite blummen glad I don't have a smart meter right now.

Imagine having a smart meter and being, with say, Accy & Trilby Coal and Oil Power Corp. as your supplier.

The ATCOPC fold, and you're forced to switch supplier. Now, at the best of times this can be fraught, and even with the new meters tales abound of folk having problems...but when your existing supplier has gone bust and there is no one to hand over the necessary serial number and mac address data to the new supplier you're utterly doomed. Doomed, I tells ya!

 

[Venod]

The ATCOPC fold, and you're forced to switch supplier. Now, at the best of times this can be fraught, and even with the new meters tales abound of folk having problems...but when your existing supplier has gone bust and there is no one to hand over the necessary serial number and mac address data to the new supplier you're utterly doomed. Doomed, I tells ya!

Our supplier doesn't do smart meters, but we have them, I just have to supply a reading every month.

 

[Drago]

I do much the same. I have our providers app on my tablet, read the old dumb meter and punch the numbers in every month.

 

[Blue Hills]

I do much the same. I have our providers app on my tablet, read the old dumb meter and punch the numbers in every month.

Octopus keep nagging me to have a smart meter - keep ignoring - no great bother to read - and I don't entirely trust smart meters to not be hacked - if they are/ever were, they virtually broadcast when you are away.

Besides, Octopus put you in a wheel of fortune/cash draw every for every month's gas and electric reading you give - not that I have ever won even 100p.

 

[swee'pea99]

Fortnight ago I was considering switching to People's Energy, but decided against. Just as well, 'cos they just went belly up.