Simon McGarr
The Gist: How Smart is Your Meter?
"By and large, people in Ireland like having heating, cooking facilities and hot water in their homes. And, ever since hanging large pots over open hearths burning dried cowpats fell from fashion, they have turned to electricity to meet those needs.
Now ESB gets activity in every home in Ireland, broken down into half-hour increments . The'll know whether the home is occupied and when we enter our homes, and the level of activity"
Simon McGarr
“These smart meters were originally set up to store detailed half-hour usage data but only transfer that stuff from the meter to ESB Networks if there was a request from the customer, or some other compelling reason why the data was required. Otherwise, the plan, as set out on the CRU's website, was for ESB Networks to default to getting a report once a day on how much power had been used in that 24 hours.”
Simon McGarr
“But ESB Networks is currently (from beginning of October 2022) rejiggling smart meters so that all the granular half hour data from its customers smart meters is being brought into a centralised database, whether customers consent or not and whether their billing tariff needs it or not (and this is suggested to increase to every fifteen minutes after 2025).
This is new.”
Aral Balkan
@Tupp_ed There’s a reason I’ve turned away two attempts (at two different properties) to replace our meters with “smart” (surveillance) meters…
Neither of the engineers even argued when I told them my reason, they just nodded; they already know.
Aral Balkan
@jk001 @Tupp_ed aThank you for that invaluable bit of insight.
John Brophy
@aral @Tupp_ed It's their job to install meters, not argue with people.
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