New smart meters to turn off supply remotely

Gavin John Hyde · Sep 17, 2020

Just been told about a proposal by some companies to allow them to turn off your power without notice or compensation if the grid is under strain.
If they haven't learnt already from the smart meter shambles that its best to leave alone they now want to mess it up again.
In theory if too many people are charging electric cars they could turn off yours so it stops charging but also your whole house goes off!
Not sure how that would stand up in court if you turned Mrs jones medical machine off and she stops breathing in her sleep! I think turning somebody's power off without notice would likely lead to a few high court challenges.
I have long thought ev chargers should have a separate meter like the old eco7 system.
Personally, if they made this mandatory and turned mine off, the seal fairy would become very popular and start bypassing the meter!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-8706033/Smart-meters-used-switch-electricity-without-warning-compensation.html

David Prosser · Sep 18, 2020

Mike Johnson said:
I remember something along the lines that an electrical supply and water come to that, can not be turned off by the supplying company no matter what the circumstances, there where a few court case's where this was tried and it came about because of "Elderly" "Children" "Dependant medical" etc.
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Or a change to the CU installation to use power shredders to switch off each appliance in turn according to its priority, but then they would have to be on a dedicated circuit as the habit of plugging our appliances into the FRC would prevent this from working.

Supply companies can definitely "cut off" the supply of either electricity, gas or water but not to private residences with people living in them. Any other property business etc they they can cut off.