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We've had a smart meter fitted and our electricity usage has increased by 50%. My wife has daily figures back over many years, gas, electricity and solar generation.
On the day of installation we had a huge peak (15kWh). Our normal usage over the weeks before and after the installation date was around 6kWh rising to 9kWh since installation.
We've had a electrician check the wiring but British Gas don't seem to interested. Pass me from smart meter tech support to billing to solar FIT (not their problem) and so on. They will check meter but will charge me if it's OK.
Apparently the installer told my wife the meter now monitors all usage. If it measures power we use from the solar panels it 1)shouldn't or 2)should have mechanism to subtract export from generated and take that off our bills. This latter would need to be done when we send in the FIT reading but from last payment they are still estimating the export.
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There was a feature last week on R4 "You and Yours" consumer programme and several people with solar panels were being charged for their own generation as if it were being supplied from the grid.
This was down to the configuration of the smart meter being incorrect.
You want to get/loan an energy monitor. My one just plugs into a socket and there's a clip on current transformer that you just pop on one of the meter tails. Then you can compare the readings with the smart meter to see if it's working correctly.
The meter menus have an "import" KWHr (from the grid) and an "export" KWHr (Your generation being supplied to the grid) This is accessed on the front of the actual meter itself using the A and B buttons
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