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\"meters\"<\/a>This blog has blogged on smart meters more<\/a> than once.\u00a0 As we said in our book<\/a> smart meters are meant to “monitor total energy consumption in real time and predict and manage trends.”.\u00a0\u00a0 There are now 4 million in the UK.\u00a0 Today a smart meter energy hub linking energy suppliers was supposed to open, but has been delayed for further testing.\u00a0 Details in this hub are very hard to come by but it is costing 2 billion pounds and I assume links the household energy information to the grid in real time.<\/p>\n

In principle smart meters are a good idea.\u00a0 They allow smart use of energy and make managing large amounts of micro-generation much easier.\u00a0 There are however some issues that I’m not happy with.\u00a0 The first is the means of communication between the household and the energy supplier this is via 4G.\u00a0 This has led to problems when installers have turned up and there is no 4G coverage.\u00a0 This is in my view more easily hackable than power line modem technology (that is signals sent through the electricity grid itself ).\u00a0 If a frequency far away from 50Hz is used then these signals do not interfere with everyday electrical equipment.\u00a0 My old system PV inverter uses this technology to communicate with a computer for its settings to be altered (which had to be done once).<\/p>\n

This leads onto my my main concern, global hacking of the systems.\u00a0 The smart meters have in my view an outrageous feature.\u00a0 They can do remote disconnect.\u00a0 In my view people should not be disconnected anyway.\u00a0 If there is a bill payment issue this should be sorted out in some other way.\u00a0 If the energy companies are hacked then and hundreds of thousands of consumers cut off suddenly you could bring the grid down.\u00a0 This is a huge security weakness.\u00a0 Lastly there is a compatibility issue.\u00a0 Some smart meters are only compatible with the energy company that installed them (this however seems to be a legacy issue).\u00a0 Also the very people that smart meters are most useful for, those of us with with solar PV systems smart meters don’t work and according to the government we are supposed to be a priority.<\/p>\n

At the moment both those who are against and those who are in favour are not happy.\u00a0 Those against like the IOD<\/a> say they are a waste of money.\u00a0 One energy supplier was interviewed this morning said it was cheaper for low income families to have smart meters.\u00a0 But there is no doubt in the short term these have to be paid for somehow and will raise bills*.\u00a0 They should cut them in the long term though.\u00a0 Those in favour say the rollout at 10,000 a day needs to be stepped up to 30,000 a day.\u00a0 All I can say is watch this space.<\/p>\n

*Even the costs are disputed with the IOD saying \u00a3400ish each and those in favour saying \u00a3200ish each.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog has blogged on smart meters more than once.\u00a0 As we said in our book smart meters are meant to “monitor total energy consumption in real time and predict and manage trends.”.\u00a0\u00a0 There are now 4 million in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17,28,15,4,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-costs","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-other","category-practical-low-carbon-living","category-renewables","category-solar"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week smart meters delay - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7213\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7213\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7213\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week smart meters delay - 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