Free Energy Nationwide, (offering smart meter removals)?

Question

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

Simon Barker · Accepted Answer

On-line people say all sorts of rubbish. They will probably quote the Magna Carta at you to justify it. The meter belongs to whoever is your electricity supplier at the time, and you're not allowed to tamper with it.

AJJewsbury · Answer

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.

Free Energy Nationwide, (offering smart meter removals)?

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