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    #32
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    Heroditas wrote: »
    What exactly would you like to know?
    The ESB have had to outsource a lot of the installation work. The grunts doing the installation wouldn't know the finer ins and outs of the project because there is still a lot of the finer details to be decided.
    The meter will now gather data for the next few months before the customer behavious trial officially commences - this will act as the benchmark data collection period.
    You're not being kept in the dark.

    Why do they need to outsource "a lot of the installation work?" A not inconsiderable part of the cost of government agencies is their tendency to outsource to the private sector work they are being well paid and well staffed to do themselves. The ESB is heavily staffed relative to the scale of their operations.

    Retraining and redeployment of people rather than running up big outsourcing bills. (Or using outsourcing bills as an excuse for delaying the installation of smart meters)!


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    #33
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    probe wrote: »
    Why do they need to outsource "a lot of the installation work?" A not inconsiderable part of the cost of government agencies is their tendency to outsource to the private sector work they are being well paid and well staffed to do themselves. The ESB is heavily staffed relative to the scale of their operations.

    Retraining and redeployment of people rather than running up big outsourcing bills. (Or using outsourcing bills as an excuse for delaying the installation of smart meters)!


    Apologies, Networks are in the process of training additional technicians to carry out the work.
    It's still going to be a very labour intensive project when you consider all the additional day to day work they also have to carry out. Hence why they might need to outsource part of the work.


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    #34
    quentingargan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭quentingargan


    The trial of smart meters is randomised, and for that reason, participants are not invited to self-select.

    The only exception is if you are a micro-generator (your own turbine or solar PVs with an EN50438 compliant inverter) where priority is being given to those selling electricity to the grid from their home.


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    #35
    pkmwgs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭pkmwgs


    I have tried several times to get a smart meter without success. i own a compliant wind generator. we were suppose to get the first 100 meters free a couple of years ago. i was number three on the list and havent heard anything since. we were to pay for installation only. [typical esb]


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    #36
    DoverMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭DoverMan


    anyone know where smart meters are currently available in Ireland i.e installed


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    #37
    quentingargan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭quentingargan


    pkmwgs wrote: »
    I have tried several times to get a smart meter without success. i own a compliant wind generator. we were suppose to get the first 100 meters free a couple of years ago. i was number three on the list and havent heard anything since. we were to pay for installation only. [typical esb]

    CER announced that ESB is now to buy your power for 9c. There's more on that under this topic


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    #38
    Davy
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,340 CMod ✭✭✭✭Davy


    DoverMan wrote: »
    anyone know where smart meters are currently available in Ireland i.e installed
    You can only get a smart meter if chosen by esb at this moment in time.


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    #39
    garbanzo
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭garbanzo


    BendiBus wrote: »
    I'm definitely arsed :P

    Keep us updated.



    eh . . . . nothing new to report I'm afraid.:mad:


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    Davy
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    These are still only being installed so it will be another while yet for anything is probably reported.


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    #41
    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    Anyone know what happened with these trials ?


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    #42
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    A full national rollout is being planned


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    #43
    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    Probably happen in another six years :)


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    #44
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    OU812 wrote: »
    Probably happen in another six years :)

    Work is well underway at some levels of the programme.
    An 80% rollout must be complete by 2020.

    So yes ... 6 years!


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