{"id":7383,"date":"2019-01-29T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2019-01-29T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:10:04","slug":"have-you-installed-a-dim-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/01\/29\/have-you-installed-a-dim-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you installed a dim meter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has a policy that electricity suppliers should persuade households to install smart(ish) meters to monitor their electricity supply. \u00a0It also has a policy that householders should switch suppliers to get better deals.<\/p>\n<p>Up to now, some 2.8 million meters have been installed. \u00a0\u00a0However, 2.6 million (the dimmer sort of smart meter) of these stop working when a supply is switched. \u00a0The government has known of this problem for about 6 months and yet the dim metres are still being installed and will continue to be until March.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you might wonder. \u00a0My guess is that companies have 6 weeks worth of dim meters to get rid of. \u00a0Welcome to joined-up UK energy policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has a policy that electricity suppliers should persuade households to install smart(ish) meters to monitor their electricity supply. \u00a0It also has a policy that householders should switch suppliers to get better deals. Up to now, some 2.8...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}