66% of all meters are smart/advanced meters, with 89% in smart mode. In nearly all cases a SM 'not working' is just working in dumb mode ie the same as a traditional meter. - ThreadSky

stockfttp.bsky.social • 14 days ago

66% of all meters are smart/advanced meters, with 89% in smart mode.

In nearly all cases a SM 'not working' is just working in dumb mode ie the same as a traditional meter.

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shevdon.bsky.social•14 days ago

The message is, smart meters are unreliable. Nobody ever thought about their old meters. They just worked.

robcheesewright.bsky.social•14 days ago

No, they didn't. We just didn't know how much they didn't work as they were analogue. You can't run a modern, flexible energy system on analogue meters. Loads of them were inaccurate. Economy 7/10 were rubbish versions of what you can do with smart.

shevdon.bsky.social•14 days ago

…when they work. When they don’t they’re no better.

robcheesewright.bsky.social•14 days ago

If c70% of them work and those are disproportionately the ones with high. flexible load, e.g. Solar, EV, heat pumps, then you can run a smart and flexible grid. So they do work, in terms of delivering the core benefits and purpose of the rollout. They're not/shouldn't have been a consumer product.

robcheesewright.bsky.social•14 days ago

The rollout has been hard and a mess. Doing telecoms at scale 30m premises in the country with the oldest and most diverse housing stock in the World is hugely challenging. That was understated - a huge error. But there is and was no future in sticking with analogue metering.

robcheesewright.bsky.social•14 days ago

That's right, but if you promise a better experience and c10% of millions of meters don't deliver the billed benefits, your rollout is fatally flawed and will stall. The rollout design and the lack of radical honesty about how hard it is to do telecoms for all homes in GB were mistakes.

robcheesewright.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the end, the whole framing of the rollout as a consumer upgrade was wrong. The initial consumer benefits were small, in a low interest category. The rollout is an essential grid upgrade. And if thats the context/framing, you don't deliver it the way we have.

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