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Free Energy Nationwide, (offering smart meter removals)?

Tomgunn

Hi, I've been in an online discussion, about having a smart meter removed. I keep saying that only the DNO can do this but... some of them, online, insist that this company will do it for you and not go through the local DNO! 

The company suggested is "Free Energy Nationwide." The online people keep saying it is legal. for an electrician, to remove the smart meters... I say that you cannot as it has to go via the DNO!

I did a quick search, on them, to find they dissolved in 2013 and, in the link provided, was a poor email address.

Any info on this, please?

Thanks... Tom

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    There is a lot of confusion these days, which probably doesn't help. Metering isn't anything to do with DNOs these days - their responsibility stops at the outgoing terminals of the cut-out (the only time they'll do anything with a meter is just to re-locate an existing one if they're re-positioning a cut-out). The meters belong to the customer's chosen electricity supplier - or sometimes their chosen metering agent (a different company again). As you say though, I can't see that any supplier is going to agree to an unmetered supply to anything that previously required a meter.

         - Andy.

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  • +1

    There is a lot of confusion these days, which probably doesn't help. Metering isn't anything to do with DNOs these days - their responsibility stops at the outgoing terminals of the cut-out (the only time they'll do anything with a meter is just to re-locate an existing one if they're re-positioning a cut-out). The meters belong to the customer's chosen electricity supplier - or sometimes their chosen metering agent (a different company again). As you say though, I can't see that any supplier is going to agree to an unmetered supply to anything that previously required a meter.

         - Andy.

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  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    Hello Andy,

    Thanks for that info!

    I just had to make sure I was correct and where's the best place to come, for this? Here!

    Thanks...

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