I think you will like the convenience of a smart meter, let us know how you get on with it. I am quite eager to get one but the suppliers in our area have not yet started installing the 2nd gen meters, should begin in October so next time we switch suppliers might be the time we do it. While we were away for 2 weeks in June our son was checking our mail and found a card one day saying that the supplier needed to do an actual reading instead of me entering the readings each month. The card gave a date and time that the meter reader would come so my son called and explained that we were away, and he was working on the date given. The company asked him to read the meters, write the results on the card and put it somewhere for them to collect. He did this and now when I log onto my account I can see all my readings marked as estimated reading and the month my son read the meters marked as actual reading. What a joke.
We had one but switched providers and they don’t use them yet. To be honest, we never turned the little device on.
We on,y have electric no gas, didn’t realise how expensive it is till we moved here.
I work in utilities and as a general rule of thumb I would always select your fixed rate because they then can’t jack up prices ( which they will be doing soon if they’ve not already done so).
You’ll always have your fixed/standing charge it covers costs like maintenance to the meters and meter readers.
They should be able to use your monthly readings as actuals, and in fact it’s best for you to provide them monthly. Causes you to not have a “catch up” bill from when they under estimated.
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