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Bazoaxe 8 Feb 11:08am, 8 Feb 2025 27,979 posts	Quote Pin Bazoaxe I am under £200 in credit and at least one cold month to go, possibly two. I decided to up my DD by a tenner.
Muttley 9 Feb 9:01am, 9 Feb 2025 3,772 posts	Quote Pin Muttley For the smart meter sceptics ... theguardian.com
HappyG(rrr) 9 Feb 7:51pm, 9 Feb 2025 51,941 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) That's not about smart meters. It's about a sh*t government and regulator project to introduce and maintain them. It's a pretty good article about that! But for an individual who is in the 80% for whom smart meters work fine, it doesn't give any info or opinion. So I stick by my view that smart meters are good for customers and flexible tariffs and essential for the environment by improving the ability to smooth demand and reduce the need for high polluting rapid activation gas turbine top up generation. However, bad IT project, yip, no disagreement there. G
Muttley 9 Feb 7:53pm, 9 Feb 2025 3,773 posts	Quote Pin Muttley That's my view too
rf_fozzy 12 Feb 3:40pm, 12 Feb 2025 23,562 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Made a decision on switching to the EDF tarriff which gives a £100 saving on the standing charge as my useage is low. Got a phone call from British Gas retentions team after I'd done it (as expected) and they tried to tell me that my actual useage was 20% higher than it actually was. Utter nonsense. When I asked her what the numbers she was using were, she said "up to date" ones - and yet when I asked for the numbers, she was 20% up. When I pointed out that I'd looked at my 2024 useage up in front of me (through the British Gas website) and quoted the numbers, she kept trying to tell me that I was wrong because my Jan 2025 gas useage was ever so slightly higher than in Jan 2024 (10%) and so that extrapolated to a 10% higher useage over the year. I replied saying no, there was a cold week in Jan this year when there hadn't been last year. Utter nonsense. I've got rough numbers from 2022 and 2023 and my useage (in kWh) was about the same in 2024, so why would I expect it to go up significantly in 2025?
rf_fozzy 12 Feb 3:41pm, 12 Feb 2025 23,563 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy (My electricity useage is ~5% down in Jan 2025 compared to Jan 2024 too, so where she got a 20% extra from I have no idea).