Re: Re: Smart Meters

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

better still, why not feed water, gas, telephone and electricity all
down the same pipe :-)

Regards
Martin


Martin Howell
ICT Project Consultant
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Grizelli Associates Limited
working in partnership with Northgate Information Systems


stuart Billinghurst wrote:
> Why don't the service suppliers get together to produce a home hum,
with
> more than just the electric connected, GAS Water etc all on the same
> meter/hub so that all billing is accurate?
>
> Or is electric just good publicity at the moment?
>
>
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Jon Whiten
> Sent: 05 December 2009 20:10
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Smart Meters
>
>
>
>
>
> Ooooooo. Thanks for the input here.
>
> East midlands - check!
> First utility - check!
>
> So it seems that somebody at the developer has been exercising a
> little forward thinking here. Wouldn't life be easier if in times
> like this they communicated this down to the customer facing staff.
> Certinly I consider fitting a smart meter and hooking it up to a
> compatible supplier a positive selling point.
>
> Roll on accurate monthly billing.
>
> ;oj
>
> On 05/12/2009, paul_watkin <paul.watkin33@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:paul.watkin33%40gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> When I looked into this myself it seemed the short answer was it
depends
>> where you live.
>>
>> If you are in the west midlands EON were offering smart meter
tariffs.
>>
>> First Utility are offering are offering smart meters in both east
and west
>> midlands.
>>
>> Most of the comparison site now have a tick box for smart meter
> availability
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
, craig
> <craigc.lists@...> wrote:
>>>> wisdom of the group and ask: Is there a current domestic
supplier I
>>>> could
>>>> use that will utilise this new meter-me-bob and give me
back some
>>>> useful
>>>> information from it (say to my computer-me-bob) or is it
just to be a
>>>> pretty
>>>> box at the moment?
>>> EON don't have smart meters, but they do have pretty graphs on
their
>>> website
>>> (its called energy tracker) that show your gas &
electricity usage per
>>> month
>>> and this will show trends and compare to last year, based on
your
> 'manual'
>>> meter readings. I guess the more readings you give the more
accurate it
>>> will
>>> be.
>>>
>>> I have just checked online and it says I reduced my
electricity
>>> consumption
>>> by 10.9% vs last year.
>>>
>>> They were and still are the cheapest supplier (for me), about
10p per kWh
>>> for electricity.
>>>
>>
>>
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