Thread: smart meter electricity?

The potential is definately there.

Its based on off peak usage...

Currently they give a "ratio" of off-peak vs peak electricity

With the new meter if you do the washing at 10pm it will know you were using power at 10pm and charge the night rate

Depending on what structure your state is adopting there are several rates...

3 am is cheaper again

Lunchtime is not!!!

And in this modern world, we should ALL pay for our excesses!!! I'm as guilty as anyone (more so in some cases) and user pays is the way to go

Yep we had one in Kambalda. Frigging marvellous doing washing etc at 2am to save money.
Biggest con in Australia and they want you to pay more cause they have not kept infrastructure in line with growth.

Get used to it, you have no choice, we'll all have them within a few years.

We can't (and soon won't be allowed to) keep building coal fired power stations just to cover the peak loads generated by our cheap air cons, etc.

Its a user pays scenario where you pay for usage (kWhr) and demand peaks(kW). Industry have been on these sorts of tariffs for decades.

Originally Posted by CraigE

Yep we had one in Kambalda. Frigging marvellous doing washing etc at 2am to save money.
Biggest con in Australia and they want you to pay more cause they have not kept infrastructure in line with growth.

Yes, I was up an hour early just to get the washing machine and dishwasher through this morning.

I'm going to try work out how to do it well but it won't be easy. Especially with night shifts. I don't have an a/c so I guess I'm saved there. I will get mains gas installed though.

But in reiterating the thing that really peeved me- They installed a machine without telling any one in my street and I assume the vast majority of people were never told. And this machine is one that can ultimately have a huge effect on our life (hip pocket). So it is a bit rich that a company would say they are going it to change the way we use electricity if they ain't even going to tell us it is installed. Until we get the first bill which may cost several hundred extra I guess we may never know it is in because I for one don't go out and look insisde the meter box.

I like my current meter with its simple on and off time for off peak usage. I'm resigned to the fact that smart meters are coming but it is enough to tip the scales in the favour of natural gas for hot water.
The introduction of these meters has more to do with extracting more money from the customer base and less to do with saving the planet.
As for the argument that this will decrease the need to build more power stations that's probably a furphy as well as Industry uses far more power than residential anyway and will pay the costs necessary.
Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by Tote

I like my current meter with its simple on and off time for off peak usage. I'm resigned to the fact that smart meters are coming but it is enough to tip the scales in the favour of natural gas for hot water.
The introduction of these meters has more to do with extracting more money from the customer base and less to do with saving the planet.
As for the argument that this will decrease the need to build more power stations that's probably a furphy as well as Industry uses far more power than residential anyway and will pay the costs necessary.
Regards,
Tote

Yes your right... LMAO

Big business will pay, and then get priority

We have our own power generation at work, and still consume over 40% of the SA grids generation.... (over the fence)

We as a country have had it easy for decades.... Not as much as the USA but similar vein...

We cant continue to do what we do..... Get used to the changes....

If you dont like it here, feel free to browse other nations and their pricing policies for major services

I had to go & check my switchboard. I don't have one YET.

I don't have a power company.......

John
(solar power)