A very intelligent metre, with a relay on the hall stand, which can tell us, minute by minute, hour by hour, how much electricity we are using and how much money we are spending. I imagine that the wifi network involved is fairly elementary and that the CIA or GRU would have no trouble hacking in and listening in to our electricity traffic. Whether, for example, we were in or out.
A present from the EU in the sense that we buy our electricity (by default) from EDF which is French and the new metre was installed, in about ten minutes flat, by a cheerful, youngish lady electrician from Romania. A first for us - but something which I was told about years ago in the TB, when the Polish plumbers first moved in. Starting at the bottom and working up, only a matter of time before they get to my trade and start forcing down the day rates - my informant being a (fully time served) electrician.
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