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Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They send real-time data on customer usage to suppliers remotely when in “smart mode”.

It said a poll carried out between August and October 2023 involving 4,000 domestic energy consumers across the UK showed that 20% of households with a smart meter still had to regularly submit manual meter readings because their device was not doing so automatically.

I usually spend effort trying to figure out how to prevent companies from having their devices upload data about me to be data-mined, so the concept of someone being upset about the opposite occurring is kind of novel.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer