Smart Metering Trial

That is a laughable reply to what I presume was a straightforward question?

Did you actually make any "suggestion"?

And how do you contact this person, as suggested, as I am sure you must have further queries?!

It will be very interesting when the trial starts to look at feedback from site reviews. Perhaps they are going to try and get away without defining a price per Kw hour. Not sure if that is legal or not. You will be able to monitor the minute by minute cost online, so perhaps it is. Many folk don’t have a clue about Kw hours anyway and would just be looking at how much a day it costs them.

I think after all the horrors of price rises many will know what KWH means... However the shock will be the difference between home rates and the now unknown CAMC rates. I really can't see how the club can get away without informing people, especially if someone asks them? I'm thinking of CLs etc where meters are used and I'm sure the owners would let you know if asked in advance.

I presume the CAMC have done guestimates regarding the pitch reductions but what is that based on, is there an average user out there? 

This is from the Ofgem regs which someone linked to earlier and substantiates the thoughts I posted way back in this thread. The last para applies to resale by metering.

Thanks TW. I guess that means we will have to wait and see if anyone who uses the site posts the rate. As the rest of us aren’t actually purchasing it, I suppose we don’t have a right to be informed. Given that most folk will hook up to the electric, it is very poor they are not prepared to indicate the cost to anyone currently booking, who will have no option but the take part in the trial if they want electric.

It would perhaps be logical for the rate per kWh to be displayed at the point of sale, Steve. I can appreciate that the price could be different at each site but there’s no good reason, as far as I can see, for CAMC to employ obfuscation as they seem to be doing. Publish and be damned!

When you look at the site web page it is full of contradictions. There is a banner on the picture referring to metering, and in the spiel about the site there is a paragraph similar to the original post, but the rest is as normal I.e. pitch with ehu. Now I know that means hook up and not electricity but it isn’t until you get to the small print that it says electricity charged on top. There is no reference to reduced prices, it is just what it is plus electricity. The site map says electricity is included in the price! On the face of the page there is no reference to needing to register with websites or apps.  I would have thought that at this point in the trial the more information given before booking, the better.

People keep saying that heating a non insulated awning is not environmentally friendly and/or not that good an idea, but is towing a caravan or driving a MH hundreds and/or thousands of miles environmentally friendly? Off topic but has been discussed a few times.

Or do people have some elastic sense of being environmentally friendly, yes my 'green' sense tells me that is ok, but I'll pass judgement on anything else past that point?

These are just some rhetorical question and I'm not going to enter into any debate about it it's just my point of view, but until people use LVs like in the photo, I'll really not going to pay much attention to anyone telling anyone else what they should be doing to be more environmentally friendly with a caravan/MH. I know I'm a bad person, or rather people may think that to be more accurate, but I'll live with that.  

To finish back on topic, if and when I use a site with metering I can assure you it will not make me more aware, environmentally and moneywise of my usage, I'll simply use what I need to enjoy my holiday, I don't have an awning anymore worth heating but if I did I would still use it. Just as much as I used a hot tub in just above freezing temperatures in December. Yes I'll be paying my 'own way' (I was before actually just like any all inclusive holiday and in the cottage) but that's a different matter to being environmentally friendly.

I can only assume (and perhaps hope) that before the trial starts the cost of the electricity will be displayed somewhere?