Re: Smart meters - what's the point?
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:49 pm
Adrenaline injection like in Pulp Fiction.
Adrenaline injection like in Pulp Fiction.
We finally got the meters changed. It was a bit touch and go... one, rather large, man turned up to do it, we explained about the location of the flue and asked if he could use our ladder to view it. He initially sais yes, then retreated to his van to check something, and emerged to say it was more than his jobs worth to do it on his own But he did manage to get someone else to turn up later to help. New person came with neat collapsible ladder aproved by the company. Then we heard them debating how they were going to do it, because approved collapsible ladder apparently had a weight limit somewhat lower than our rather large engineer, and would apparently colapse at the wrong point.... not sure what they decided to do in the end, but we now have smart meters we didn't want...Hunting Dog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:29 pmWe will probably never know...
Eon want to change our gas nd electric metersmto smart versions. To change the gas one they need to check the flue which is in the loft. They hve sent one person round who couldn't do it because he needed a ladder trained operative to help. They keep trying to make us book new appointments for it but every time we ask they still can't actually send the required two man team..... this has been going on for a few years now!
Or is the government simply enforcing a sensible physical status quo? Otherwise you would have duplicate electrical supply and duplicate pipes for water and gas and multiple utilities digging up the street.dyqik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:33 amWe have smart meters for gas, electric and water.
They aren't any trouble. But then we have a government enforced monopoly on the transport/billing of all three of those things (you can change gas and electric supplier, but your bills still come from the company that owns the wires/pipes. Water and sewer is run by the town.).
I don't think it's an "Or" or a question there...Boustrophedon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:46 amOr is the government simply enforcing a sensible physical status quo? Otherwise you would have duplicate electrical supply and duplicate pipes for water and gas and multiple utilities digging up the street.dyqik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:33 amWe have smart meters for gas, electric and water.
They aren't any trouble. But then we have a government enforced monopoly on the transport/billing of all three of those things (you can change gas and electric supplier, but your bills still come from the company that owns the wires/pipes. Water and sewer is run by the town.).
What I meant was that where there is a physical infrastructure that you would not want duplicated it is a sensible option for those to be monopolistic, anything that goes by truck well that's up to the market innit?dyqik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:04 pmI don't think it's an "Or" or a question there...Boustrophedon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:46 amOr is the government simply enforcing a sensible physical status quo? Otherwise you would have duplicate electrical supply and duplicate pipes for water and gas and multiple utilities digging up the street.dyqik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:33 amWe have smart meters for gas, electric and water.
They aren't any trouble. But then we have a government enforced monopoly on the transport/billing of all three of those things (you can change gas and electric supplier, but your bills still come from the company that owns the wires/pipes. Water and sewer is run by the town.).
We do have people that use private trash pickup instead of the town service. And people that use propane, oil, wells and septic tanks despite gas, water and sewage going past their front door.
But we picked our house because it's in a town with sewer, water, trash pickup, and it has natural gas. That's not true everywhere in this town or in the adjacent towns.
Two trucks stopping every other house is a whole lot more expensive to run than one truck stopping at every house.Boustrophedon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:53 pmWhat I meant was that where there is a physical infrastructure that you would not want duplicated it is a sensible option for those to be monopolistic, anything that goes by truck well that's up to the market innit?dyqik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:04 pmI don't think it's an "Or" or a question there...Boustrophedon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:46 am
Or is the government simply enforcing a sensible physical status quo? Otherwise you would have duplicate electrical supply and duplicate pipes for water and gas and multiple utilities digging up the street.
We do have people that use private trash pickup instead of the town service. And people that use propane, oil, wells and septic tanks despite gas, water and sewage going past their front door.
But we picked our house because it's in a town with sewer, water, trash pickup, and it has natural gas. That's not true everywhere in this town or in the adjacent towns.