Is there any reason left not to go smart meter?

In the app, you can create a usage load profile from your HDF data, then tweak it if you think you can change when you use electricity (herself will not). Then add hot water heating, EV or a battery and solar. It will simulate a year and show comparisons for the different scenarios.

It's fun to see when I start to build credit for winter, but also good to see what happens if I buy another battery, or more panels, or do batch cooking at the weekend and charge a large EV battery on Sunday...

On my to-do list is to add dumping to the grid schedule, as this is a real earner for those that can. Garden is looking better, but still a bit to do there before I submerge myself in android again.

Have my smart meter install coming up this week, have put it off a few times but going ahead this time.

Are there specific questions to ask the installer when they ring to confirm the appointment?

Meter type needed to allow d/n rates?

Will they upgrade the main supply fuse if I ask? Cost involved?

Is it worth looking for an isolation switch for using solar / battery in a blackout? I believe these are expensive so may not be worth it, though we do get a lot of outages here over the course of a year.

Anything else I should be looking out for?

Haven't sussed out a new electric supply plan yet but I'm out of contract so can pick anyone.

so far, leaning towards either a d/n plan from EI or a smart plan from BG.

On a 24hr currently, can I request a d/n?

I am sure this question has been done to death but with the guidance of Energypal I want to switch to a smart meter tarrif but the provider told me we would stuck with it for life then. Is this true in all cases? What do ComReg say about this? Thanks all.

It would be interesting to see what Comreg might say if you went to change later, as the guy on RTE recently (who I think was representing the suppliers) appeared to indicate that you should be allowed switch back to a 24hr tariff.

I contacted ComReg. They referred me to the Commission of Regulation of Utilities. They said that its not possible generally, but it might be if you issued a complaint and would require a new meter being installed which bewildered me as I dont want a new meter. I am happy with smart meter. I will contact ESB networks.

That is correct. The process for MCC change is that the customer contacts their shipper/supply company and that supply company sends a message to networks via their CRM integration. The customer cannot contact networks directly. Any automated request sent for a change from MCC12 or MCC16 (the smart tariff codes, "TOS" tariffs) through this process will be rejected.

I was made aware that a smart meter was installed some time ago, not really understanding what it meant. I tried to access my "real-time" usage information but it never worked. Then I went searching and stumbled across these smart meter plans!

I'm currently paying 0.3287c per kWh for electricity and 0.11014c per kWh for gas. Is there any reason not to switch to a smart dual plan? The prices I'm seeing from SSE Airtricity appear significantly better than what I'm paying at the moment!

It's possible that your meter hasn't got a good enough signal to communicate with ESBN Networks. Have you checked the signal strength symbol on the meter? My meter has a signal strength of 2 bars & communicates successfully with ESBN.

Okay so ESB have confirmed that there is a connectivity issue with my smart meter. Do I have any recourse on this or am I just stuck with never being able to access my smart meter data?