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KoRWraith
KoRWraith
@korwraith
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Last seen: Mar 1, 2025
Topics: 3 / Replies: 58
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

Indeed, for any future readers, UTC matches the 'clock' time during winter, my EDF off-peak period is 12am-5am in winter and 1am-6am in summer. Theref...

9 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

@transparent Alas, the settlement is not in any direct addition to overcharging reimbursement. It probably splits along the lines of a £120 settlement...

9 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

I received the outcome of the complaint with the Energy Ombudsman today. The investigator agreed there were billing discrepancies on the account tha...

9 months ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@david999 I have 14kWh of battery capacity, I initially limited it to 85% charge and 15% discharge as to minimise 'wear'. I think this is sensible for...

9 months ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

I don't quite follow your description but in my case I have the CT around my main incoming supply. I only charge my EV during off peak hours (e.g. 1am...

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

It seems someone else stumbled upon the same issue earlier this year too here, albeit it's not clear if it affected their billing.

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

I have provided them with a link to this discussion and suggested that they may wish to escalate to Ofgem.

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

When I was with Octopus their billing data correlated 1:1 with the half-hourly UTC '30 Minute Interval Reads' shown in my "meter stuff" spreadsheet. I...

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

@derek-m Indeed! Not to mention washing machines/dishwashers, 99% of which most certainly don't have smart meter random offset scheduling integration ...

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

I feel bad for those poor suckers at the long tail of the random offset graph, potentially getting charged a full 30 minutes of peak rate during what ...

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

EDF provided me with this in the course of our interaction: I've no idea how Octopus works things (or doesn't, certainly they say your IHD will n...

10 months ago
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RE: Incorrect Billing of Customers with a Smart Meter

One thing I don't understand is that if companies have the ability to accurately charge using the 30 minute Smart Meter data then why don't they? Octo...

10 months ago
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