Smart meters

Make your home greener: Getting a smart meter will help you to see how much energy different appliances in your home use, and it is one of the best tools to make your home greener and smarter.

Making small changes such as turning off the lights in an empty room or turning down the thermostat a degree or two when appropriate can make a big difference to the amount of CO2 Great Britain uses.  Britain is set to spend an additional £5.6 million every day on heating for every additional temperature degree increase this winter.

A smart meter will also help you to see if more energy efficient appliances or home modifications are right for you.

Save a little money:  Your energy supplier will install your new smart meter at no extra cost, and then it is up to you to see how much it can help you save. Being aware of your energy use is the best way to help bring it down, so with your handy in-home display, you will always know exactly what you are spending and where you can reduce costs. Make some small changes and see your usage come down.

Save a little time: You will no longer need to scrabble around in the meter cupboard to take your own meter reading and no strangers will call at your home to read the meter. The meter sends your meter reading direct to your energy supplier, saving you time and effort.

Get accurate bills:  Smart meters mean that your bills will be accurate, not estimated based upon what your energy supplier thinks you should have used. Once you have a smart meter, you will get accurate bills from your energy supplier.

Keep track of what you use: Using your smart meter's in-home display, you can see how much energy you've used in real time for each day, week or month and compare it. This nifty tool will help you to save time and energy.

Do your bit for the environment:  It is estimated that smart metering technology will help Britain save almost 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030. Getting yours installed will help that become a reality as we move towards a low carbon economy for us and future generations to come. Just by choosing to get a smart meter in your home you're helping the environment by enabling a smarter energy grid, which will reduce the amount of unclean energy we produce.

Prepare for a smarter future: Electric vehicles and domestic energy generation are just some of the technologies developing rapidly for our homes.

The smart meter rollout is an integral upgrade to our energy infrastructure, necessary to allow us to fully embrace the technology of the future and move away from old dirty power stations, towards greener energy creation.

Keep your energy data safe: Some of the top data security experts in the country are behind the creation of a new secure network which allows your smart meter to communicate with your energy supplier.

If you wish to change your supplier for a more competitive deal you can do this with a smart meter as you are able to do currently.