Panorama - The Smart Meter mess

[noseall]

Can you show the figures for switches and disconnections with sm and dumb meters?

MBK conveniently posted a link to a compensation scheme....

Compensation for involuntary installation of prepayment meters, 1 January 2022 to 31 January 2023

Update on energy suppliers review of installation of prepayment meters without household permission before new rules came into effect November 2023.

www.ofgem.gov.uk

...which he mistakenly thought showed claims arising solely from remote meter switching. Turns out that most of the claims are for wrongful installation of pre-payment meters, arising from force fitting of meters whereby entry was gained into the properties via court sanctioned warrants.

There were over a million of these granted. And there was poor old MBK thinking it was all remote switching, lol. He even bragged about the numbers.

Stick those numbers in yer bilge pipe, dummies.

You are no more likely to have your supply cut off or be switched to pre-payment metering with either a SM or an analogue meter. FACT.

 

[noseall]

MBK also mocked a poster (Denso) here....

oh wait you're serious.

..when in fact what Denso said was true....

"...In 2022, as the cost of living crisis took hold, magistrates approved more than 1,000 warrants a day. Almost all of these claims are now authorised electronically or over the phone, by specific magistrates courts allocated to each energy company.

Energy company agents apply by telephone and send in large spreadsheets with between 100 and 1000 cases, where customers are told they do have the right to contest the warrant, but many do not respond. The hearings will sign off, issue and send all the electronic warrants in "a maximum of 15 minutes"

The court system earns a per case fee from the arrangement, an important source of income after a decade when funding for the judicial system has been cut back substantially.

One magistrate, and former Justice of the Peace, stepped down last August after being left unable to check vulnerable people were being protected when a warrant for a prepayment meter was sought.

Robin Cantrill-Fenwick told BBC Newsnight changes to the court system meant magistrates "were doing nothing more than rubber stamping" warrants.

He said the lack of scrutiny is putting vulnerable households at risk...."

All of the above cases, hundred of thousands of them, were all to do with forced entry (court sanctioned) analogue meter switching. They were handing out warrants like sweets.... READ MORE.

Fair enough to MBK, he also showed that SM's were being remotely switched also, but did not show a prevalence over analogue meters being replaced by court sanctioned entry. In fact, quite the opposite.

You are no more likely to have your supply cut off or switched to pre-pay with a either a SM or an analogue meter.

 

[noseall]

Actually I think you'll find it's the whoosh sound that you don't understand...

Still waiting for you to post something believable about SM's.

Anything.....

 

[Odds]

You understand that most court orders are electronic or did you think they sit in a court with a quill and parchment?

We keep tradition alive oop north, laddo.

 

[noseall]

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We keep tradition alive oop north, laddo.

MBK loves to start a sentence off with the words "you understand"

The hilarious thing is that he doesn't.

 

[noseall]

If it was a non issue, why did offgen ban the practice

They haven't nor did they have the authority to ban it, nor did they want to (completely).