My supplier recently asked to fit a Smart Meter and I said - no thank you.
I just couldn’t see how this would offer any benefit to me at this time, given the inconvenience of installation and the increased risk of some problem or other. I hope that I wasn’t swayed by any hype , since my earlier career was spent in the electrical power industry, including being intimate with the transition from electromechnical induction protective relays to solid state (e.g. P&B Golds). I also impulse purchased a few years ago in the supermarket an “OWL” which via a small clip-on CT, fed a display of power used etc. I thought that it might interest my other half, but she thought that I was just trying to “penny pinch” and that the display didn’t match the ornaments, so at the first opportunity it was banished from sight.
Did I make the wrong call to decline the smart meter?
My supplier recently asked to fit a Smart Meter and I said - no thank you.
I just couldn’t see how this would offer any benefit to me at this time, given the inconvenience of installation and the increased risk of some problem or other. I hope that I wasn’t swayed by any hype , since my earlier career was spent in the electrical power industry, including being intimate with the transition from electromechnical induction protective relays to solid state (e.g. P&B Golds). I also impulse purchased a few years ago in the supermarket an “OWL” which via a small clip-on CT, fed a display of power used etc. I thought that it might interest my other half, but she thought that I was just trying to “penny pinch” and that the display didn’t match the ornaments, so at the first opportunity it was banished from sight.
Did I make the wrong call to decline the smart meter?
