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GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?

 
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03/07/2026 12:17 pm  

This is a very useful forum discussion @l8again 
... and especially so now that we understand you are involved professionally in the data exchange relationship between BEET and Northern Power Grid.

Another member with information from within the energy sector is very valuable here 🙂 

 

So, yes I take note that you do seem to have given consent for your DNO to access your meter data.
... and please note that I remain doubtful as to whether that complies with the regulations.

I wasn't aware that DCC would provide access to data from a single Smart Meter, even if consent was obtained.

 

2: Northern Power Grid might like to know that NGED are obtaining aggregated voltage data at intervals of 10-minutes, rather than the usual half-hour intervals which underlies the way in which the meters work.

Whilst not definitive, that's a useful step towards assessing average line voltages across a rolling 10-min period.

 

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I don't buy into the argument that someone knowing my power consumption poses any risk. I can walk down my street and make an informed guess about who is in; out or away without the need for smart meter access.

That's not the scenario which causes concern.

The data which is of most use to a DNO is that derived from rural properties towards the extremities of the 11kV network. These are not 'towns' and don't have 'streets'. There are few ground-mounted local substations, and there is a relatively high proportion of generation assets.

And that rural data is also of greatest interest to 3rd-parties whose motives are malicious. Those include burglars and hostile foreign entities for whom our grid is a 'target', which is a very wide set.


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03/07/2026 1:32 pm  

Posted by: @l8again
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Posted by: @l8again
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I don't buy into the argument that someone knowing my power consumption poses any risk. I can walk down my street and make an informed guess about who is in; out or away without the need for smart meter access.

 

 

That's not the scenario which causes concern.

The data which is of most use to a DNO is that derived from rural properties towards the extremities of the 11kV network. These are not 'towns' and don't have 'streets'. There are few ground-mounted local substations, and there is a relatively high proportion of generation assets.

And that rural data is also of greatest interest to 3rd-parties whose motives are malicious. Those include burglars and hostile foreign entities for whom our grid is a 'target', which is a very wide set.

It's worth also remembering (as @transparent partly covered) that there are significant risks more generally with assuming the owner of the home in which the smart meter is installed is necessarily the target, that theft of their physical property is the worst that can happen to them or even that maintaining proper data security is only for guarding against the malicious.

I could wax lyrical about examples of risks in each of those assumptions but for obvious security reasons I won't. Suffice to say a potential burglar using smart meter data to help nick your telly is most definitely not at the top of the dangers list.

 


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