The installation of these devices, It will incorporate digital technology, they must be ready for 2018, here all the questions and answers, by means of the Opinion.
The installation of the smart meters This moving increasingly by the homes of all the Spanish. All households with a lower power to 15 kW/h they must have it installed and set up totalmento before the end of 2018, accordance with the legislation in force. The new counters include digital technology and their biggest advantage is that they will facilitate a faster reading and proportion of the energy consumption.
The smart meter is developed with the intention of offering a better quality in the reading of the service, which will also allow the consumer better optimize the invoice on the basis of their periods of increased spending. The Organization of consumers and users (OCU) which indicates on its web site with new light counters “deviations in reading offered by the old timers will disappear” and will be The end “estimated readings”.
The installation of the new meters It is borne by the electricity companies, These are which are faced with the costs of the renovations of the counter. The company is obliged to notify in advance to change the.
According to the OCU, new light meters have a monthly cost of 0,81 Euros/month, “which means a rise of the 40% with respect to the old (0,54 euros per month)”. The users who benefit most are those who formerly had a double counter and having contracted a rate of time discrimination.
The counter display more reliably monthly consumption, as well as the adjustment of the contracted power. One of the objectives of the new counters is to provide to the consumer the choice of different tariff options.
The empowerment of new light counters have brought with them different popular beliefs that do not completely certain. For example, the fact that the counter change involves a new energy contract or to use home wifi network to transmit data to the Distributor and the marketer. Both ideas are false. The signed contract will be unchanged and will be the electrical low voltage network already existing which send the information of the consumer.