I switched from Utilita, who fitted my smart meter, to British Gas. BG tell me my smart meter ”doesn’t work with their systems” so I have no idea how much energy I’m using or what I owe. When I tried to set up a direct debit, BG told me it would be £10 per month, not the £150 I used to pay with Utilita. BG then tell me I need to upgrade my meter, and when I choose to do so they tell me they don’t have the technology to do it. So I’m left guessing how much to pay each month, then paying the difference every three months when BG send me a bill. When I tried to switch back to Utilita, they told me my smart meter ”doesn’t work with their systems.”
I’d love to hear the government try and explain how this is an improvement over just pumping electricity into homes. The energy industry the UK is a fucking joke.
Thanks, Thatcher.
It’s worked fine for 2 decades.
Now bojo the clown has crashed it.
And it still works fine really: there is no power/gas shortage, no one is being cut off because their supplier is bankrupt etc. We’re just seeing high gas and electric prices for international (and national) reasons.
Yeah, we got too reliant on gas, but that was a government decision. Yeah, smart meters are BS but again that was a government program. What exactly do people want fixed here?
Nationalisation is a solution in search of a problem in this instance.
When has privatising any service every made anything better?
I don’t understand the fascination with privatising beyond the fact it makes several people very rich. What exactly convinced people that business was somehow better at running things than the government?
Don’t most people work at businesses? How many of you would feel safe if those people were running the country?
While it is currently in vogue to want total power nationalization, I can say that this is generally a bad idea, and what should be privatized is the transmission and distribution systems. Generation (especially) and retail should be kept open for private companies. At most the government can launch public suppliers and build power plants that compete with private ones.
All I can say for private generation is that perhaps niv chasing should be disallowed and all units need to join the balancing mechanism. Otherwise grid at times have to guess how much niv chasing volume is running and it complicates balancing
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I switched from Utilita, who fitted my smart meter, to British Gas. BG tell me my smart meter ”doesn’t work with their systems” so I have no idea how much energy I’m using or what I owe. When I tried to set up a direct debit, BG told me it would be £10 per month, not the £150 I used to pay with Utilita. BG then tell me I need to upgrade my meter, and when I choose to do so they tell me they don’t have the technology to do it. So I’m left guessing how much to pay each month, then paying the difference every three months when BG send me a bill. When I tried to switch back to Utilita, they told me my smart meter ”doesn’t work with their systems.”
I’d love to hear the government try and explain how this is an improvement over just pumping electricity into homes. The energy industry the UK is a fucking joke.
Thanks, Thatcher.
It’s worked fine for 2 decades.
Now bojo the clown has crashed it.
And it still works fine really: there is no power/gas shortage, no one is being cut off because their supplier is bankrupt etc. We’re just seeing high gas and electric prices for international (and national) reasons.
Yeah, we got too reliant on gas, but that was a government decision. Yeah, smart meters are BS but again that was a government program. What exactly do people want fixed here?
Nationalisation is a solution in search of a problem in this instance.
When has privatising any service every made anything better?
I don’t understand the fascination with privatising beyond the fact it makes several people very rich. What exactly convinced people that business was somehow better at running things than the government?
Don’t most people work at businesses? How many of you would feel safe if those people were running the country?
While it is currently in vogue to want total power nationalization, I can say that this is generally a bad idea, and what should be privatized is the transmission and distribution systems. Generation (especially) and retail should be kept open for private companies. At most the government can launch public suppliers and build power plants that compete with private ones.
All I can say for private generation is that perhaps niv chasing should be disallowed and all units need to join the balancing mechanism. Otherwise grid at times have to guess how much niv chasing volume is running and it complicates balancing