We’ve had one for a while now .
Supposed to have been left a gadget to be able to read usage but they said they had run out and would send us one .
Still waiting for it .
Apart from not having to have someone come and read the metre or do it ourselves we don’t really take much notice of it .
We did have a letter the other week saying about reading the metre every day or every hour ( WHY would we want that ) .
We had to ring them up and say we didn’t want that and to carry on just reading it once a month .
Made me wonder if it was another way to start charging more but I see there putting their prices up again anyway 🙄
We've got the digital display that came with the electricity meter but we've never used it as there are only the two of us & I know the wattage ratings of our appliances & understanding kilowatt hours has never presented any challenge to me.
I can see a display being of benefit in a household with several kids where they forget to switch off 3kW fan heaters or the immersion heater etc.
The idea of remotely reading a smart meter every hour is for the energy supplier to be able to provide virtually real time information to a customer about their energy usage.
Again, it would be of little value to us, but the family with 3 teenage kids might find it useful to be told that every evening between 22:00 hrs & 00:00 hrs their electricity usage suddenly spikes from 1kWh to 10kWh & they find that each kid has stuck on a fan heater for a couple of hours in their bedrooms whilst using social media.