grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
I know I can look this up in order to try to understand this better, but I'm still struggling a little to understand the rationale behind electricity meters showing two readings, one for day time, and a second covering maybe seven or so hours at night, (so far so good).
I know there may be differing tariffs for those different hours of electrical usage, and the electricity companies used to want to encourage night time use in order to smooth out the supply requirements etc but the bill I'm looking at shows the same tariff for electricity used during either time period, (maybe something to do with the deal my father got signed up to?).
However, if deals are available where anyone can request a meter showing two readings, and off peak usage is cheaper regardless of how the electricity gets used, then why would anyone not take up such a deal?
Am I missing something?
One thing that has confused me I know, was the "white meter" installed in a house I used to own, where only night storage radiators, or similar equipment only using electric at night could be connected, and this made sense to me. Obviously choosing to install this heating system would achieve the desired effect so far as smoothing out usage, and thus benefit the supply companies, who could then pass on some of the benefit to the consumer in terms of the lower charge.
Maybe I've talked myself round to understanding the metering showing day and night readings, because even without dedicated equipment connected to the night meter, the usage of electric at night might be encouraged by the electric company offering a slightly lower tariff(?).
Is that it, mystery solved, meter installed when electric company wished to promote night time usage, but for some reason that deal no longer applies?
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I know there may be differing tariffs for those different hours of electrical usage, and the electricity companies used to want to encourage night time use in order to smooth out the supply requirements etc but the bill I'm looking at shows the same tariff for electricity used during either time period, (maybe something to do with the deal my father got signed up to?).
However, if deals are available where anyone can request a meter showing two readings, and off peak usage is cheaper regardless of how the electricity gets used, then why would anyone not take up such a deal?
Am I missing something?
One thing that has confused me I know, was the "white meter" installed in a house I used to own, where only night storage radiators, or similar equipment only using electric at night could be connected, and this made sense to me. Obviously choosing to install this heating system would achieve the desired effect so far as smoothing out usage, and thus benefit the supply companies, who could then pass on some of the benefit to the consumer in terms of the lower charge.
Maybe I've talked myself round to understanding the metering showing day and night readings, because even without dedicated equipment connected to the night meter, the usage of electric at night might be encouraged by the electric company offering a slightly lower tariff(?).
Is that it, mystery solved, meter installed when electric company wished to promote night time usage, but for some reason that deal no longer applies?
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