I
found the article I referred to a couple of posts ago about the ESO (actually a DNO, my mistake) being able to switch off your meter, but to be fair the article is part of the Daily Mail group, so take it with a pinch of salt.....
- A large pinch of salt
It did link to the change proposal from Richard Hartshorn of Scottish and Southern Electricity
which can be found here. The concept seemed squarely aimed at remotely switching off BEV charging when demand was high and the local infrastructure was likely to fall over. That does, in a way, tie in with the original spec for Smart meters where they were designed to include the ability to control a household's power useage.
However........... The fact that a DNO is willing to stick 'it's' head above the parapet and propose remotely controlling a home car charger, and the fact that the ESO (National Grid) is willing to publicly say they'll pay people to switch off high useage devices (car chargers) during peak demand times, and the fact that the ESO is willing to pay people to use their car batteries to put power back into the grid doesn't fill me with confidence. They might all be whizzo ideas which can be spun (somewhat incredulously) as 'a good idea', but what does it say about our electricity infrastructure ? We were fed the line that there was ample power available and that it was only in extremely limited scenarios that there would be energy supply problems, but here we already have a DNO and the ESO making efforts to gain the ability to control the local power distro because they can foresee problems. We're not even slightly close to a decent uptake of BEVs yet.
Perhaps the solution is to ignore it and pretend nothing's happening
