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The Weekend Quiz. 10th January 2020

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Who said:


(1) "You can't have a sustainable energy network in the U.K. without smart meters".


and,


(2) "...smart meters help in achieving de-carbonisation targets and ....if we all want to drive an electric car and electrically heat our houses...you can't do that without a smart meter".


Z.



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    Bert Pijls


    Legh
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    Yes it is he. So is Calisen's Chief Executive right, or is it just spin to promote the proposed floatation?


    Z.
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    If you mean breaking a company into various business opportunities and collect a tax free sum then its how businesses operate as they grow. Better to have separate companies than departments of the same company. I personally feel that all CEOs should be underwitten by an insurance policy and not rely on limited liability so if their ventures go pear shaped it doesn't affect the end user or tax payer, investors not included as they are part of the business venture and should also have their own insurance...


    We'll end up in the Savery Palace virual club if we're not carsful!


    Legh


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    We'll end up in the Savery Palace virual club if we're not carsful!


    Legh


     




    Nah! This is a wiring and associated matters issue relating to "smart" meters Legh.


    Calisen is owned by a private equity firm called KKR and owns about a third of all "smart" electricity and gas meters in Britain. It intends to raise £1.3 bn by a London floatation. The intention being to reduce debt and fund expansion. It intends to install another 6 million "smart" meters. Mr. Pijls is by nature a banker.


    The government initiative to get "smart" meters installed in the U.K. is running years behind schedule, and costs have risen to 13.5 bn.


    Z.






     

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    I was chatting with a meter reader the other day, about smart meters. He said he recently had to read 48 smart meters in a brand new block of flats, they were sited in the intake room 2 floors below ground level. Consequently all were dumb. He said the meter companies don't care, they are paid by the government to fit them and that's that.
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    You say Piijs is your nature a banker you can read that 2 way if you see what I mean
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    OlympusMons:

    I was chatting with a meter reader the other day, about smart meters. He said he recently had to read 48 smart meters in a brand new block of flats, they were sited in the intake room 2 floors below ground level. Consequently all were dumb. He said the meter companies don't care, they are paid by the government to fit them and that's that.




    I don't know about Smart Meters, but AMR Meters (Automatic Meter Reading) which we have recently had fitted, one for gas one for electricity both have inbuilt remote aerials. The electricity one was left within its case and the gas one affixed about 2 metres up the wall. Unlike the smart meters I have seen, both of these communicate independently of the other to whatever/wherever. There was reference to a SIM card, so maybe mobile phone?

     

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    Kelly Marie:

    You say Piijs is your nature a banker you can read that 2 way if you see what I mean




    You know full well Kelly Marie that Mr. Pijls used to be Chief Executive of Hellenic, M.D. of City Bank and C.E. of Egg Banking. Now go and stand in the corner for a month as punishment for having such naughty thoughts. You won't be milk monitor next week.


    Z.

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