New smart meter……huge shock.

If you are one a recent (high!) tariff, fifty pence- worth of electricity overnight might just be the standing charge!

Do you have a refrigerator and/or freezer on? I think they take at least two units each day. So that could be 50p these days.

I found some time go that I was not usng my fridge-freezer, so I switched it off. So maybe saving around at least £180 a year now.

Of course, many people need a fridge-freezer facility. It just happens that I don't these days.

This might be of interest to those of you who are considering a smart meter:-

www.goodenergy.co.uk/smart-meters/

Ashcombe

This might be of interest to those of you who are considering a smart meter:-

www.goodenergy.co.uk/smart-meters/

Still a no from me …

I couldn't care one way or the other. We had one of the mark 1 smart meters fitted. It worked, we put the consumer end of the device in a drawer and never looked at it. After six months we changed supplier and it no longer worked.

2 years ago, as part of a building project the meter had to be moved and a new meter installed. They never consulted us over what kind of meter we wanted, just fitted a new non-smart meter. This quite surprised us as we thought a smart meter was the default option.

Well, that is their problem now. They chose to put a non-smart meter in, we are just assuming they did it for good reason, so we will be doing nothing to query it. Why should we?

StarDreamer

Do you have a refrigerator and/or freezer on? I think they take at least two units each day. So that could be 50p these days.

I found some time go that I was not usng my fridge-freezer, so I switched it off. So maybe saving around at least £180 a year now.

Of course, many people need a fridge-freezer facility. It just happens that I don't these days.

They might not be using as much as you think, StarDreamer

I have both a medium-sized fridge-freezer and a medium-sized chest freezer.

Last September, when we were going away for 12 days, I decided to see how much they used while we were away, as they would be the only things left running.
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Only 19 units had been used when we got back, so if my maths is right, that only worked out at about 1.6 units a day for two appliances.

That was less than I had expected - though still enough to make it worth turning off unused appliances!

I am trying to lose a bit of weight and I’ve decided to eat soup for my meal in the evening so I went to Tesco and see that Heinz soup are 95p and their own brand is 55p so I have bought their own brand and I had a minestrone tonight with granary bread and it was fine…(I do have a soup maker in a cupboard somewhere must really try to find it)

Shinamae

I am trying to lose a bit of weight and I’ve decided to eat soup for my meal in the evening so I went to Tesco and see that Heinz soup are 95p and their own brand is 55p so I have bought their own brand and I had a minestrone tonight with granary bread and it was fine…(I do have a soup maker in a cupboard somewhere must really try to find it)

Sorry wrong thread ?