Quite interesting reading the opinions on smart meters, we have them and are with Octopus Energy, I wont put a link to join as I don't think that's appropriate, but it would earn both of us money off, back to the point, we also have solar panels, I believe we have enough on top to keep the new housing rules happy, BUT here is the BUT we can see what they are producing, from there it falls apart, we do not know how much they are helping our bills, our electric is high, compared to our last two houses we were using about £45 a month, nothing has changed and were now using £58 a month, we have stopped using the tumble dryer just to see what difference it makes, but we do have tropical Fish, two 50w heaters and two filter pumps running, they were also running in the other houses, we receive a Feed In Tariff payment from Scottish Power who assume we use 50% of whats generated, we have had 3 quarterly payments of £9 £10 and £6 which over the summer seems a little bit of a joke, I am waiting answers from the suppliers to see if in fact we do actually use any we generate. The house is a New build, two bed, I have replaced all lights with LED units as the builders had fitted Fluorescent energy savers, and I feel we are being over charged, our Gas usage is £12 a month summer, we wait to see what it will be over the winter, sorry if I dragged this off topic a little but I have so many questions and very little in the way of answers