Do you have to accept a smart meter being fitted?

NIMAN

As the title says.

Currently on a Day/Night rate.

Will I be able to keep this?

walshtipp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058377645/do-you-have-to-accept-a-smart-meter-being-fitted

You can opt out of getting a smart meter if you want by contacting your supplier. However you can keep your current plan if you get a smart meter. I have a smart meter and have dual tariff day/night plan, like I had with the old meter.

You can get a day/night smart meter and not move to a smart plan.

NIMAN

I'm worried that it'll be like that initially, but that they might do away with the full night rate time period in the future.

10-10-20

They will get rid of the plans which support offline meters eventually as it's a stick and carrot to encourage you to move over. Eventually there will be zero meter readers left too. But they can't do that until the rollout is complete and any lingering tech issues are closed off. I don't see the point in continually fighting it, it's not like it's depriving you of anything.

smuggler.ie

As far i understood, once you change to smart meter, you cannot change between 24 vs day/night . As you on D/N right now, with smart meter you will have only option to stay on it or move to smart plan.
Unclear, if you move to smart plan - would you be able to revert to D/N, i have a feeling not.

The other question - does smart plan works out better(cheaper) for you?
Unless i would start "living" at night time, 24 tariff is better than smart for me at the current time.

But yeah, soon we all be "volunteered" into the only option.

User567363

We got one last year, am delighted with it so far, much smarter then the old dumb meter

hanloj1

It is handy for feeding into the grid with solar pv