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Well I'm glad to see some adventurous thinking @mjr Let's keep the discussion going and see where this leads. Firstly there are only five ALCS cha...
Solutions are available @editor - ones which could be targeted at the most needy far better than the '£250 to everyone' which the government has just ...
It is a fine detail... but alas, you've jumped to the wrong conclusion. 😟 The internal offset timing within our Smart Meter Comms Hubs is precisely...
If you'd like to know more, then there's a rich repository of published material in Ofgem's archives, such as this Presentation by Tim Bailey. He was ...
Yes @derek-m that's how the National Smart Meter Network was always intended to operate. It was designed back in 2013 during the coalition government,...
Thanks @derek-m but I'm still unsure that I've adequately clarified the system. No one controls the offset. Each Comms Hub is implanted with a rando...
I think I haven't explained the system sufficiently clearly. Octopus cannot inform a customer of the meter time-offset because they don't know it th...
So we are in agreement about how this offset works. I'm glad to have that confirmed. I'm assuming that the 'issues' which @philiprsteele refers to a...
To allow others to follow this discussion in future, let me point out that Smart Meters can have two sorts of hardware control over external loads. ...
That's true. But I'm also allowing some headroom for the double-pole mains isolator, cabling, mains changeover switches, trips and the DIN-rail enclos...
That's £2000 for the battery cells and the BMS, which is the electronic box that provides balancing and protection. I'm including an approximate amoun...
I'd like to pick up this point about the development of standards for Smart Devices which operate within the framework of Demand Side Response. I'm ...
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