MP169: Managing SEC Obligations and the Consumer's Right to refuse a Smart Meter

What is being proposed

The consumer has a right to refuse a Smart Meter. Suppliers are unable to comply with consumer requests to install a smart meter in ‘dumb’ mode. The SEC does not allow for the Devices on the Smart Metering Inventory to be either installed and not commissioned (this is a transient state and not an enduring one) or to fit the meters without also fitting the DCC provided Communications Hub (as reference above in Gas and Electricity Supply Licence Condition 54.9). There is no concept, by design, of fitting a smart meter in ‘dumb’ mode.

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Analysis

SEC code modification. See the codes page for full details.