Is there an EE cellular smart meter model that can be used in a household with storage heaters ?

Morning ​@shetland,

Thanks for letting us know - I hope the appointment goes ahead smoothly, and we hear good news from you next month!

Cheers,

Ben

​@Ben_OVO  How can you find out if you are in a Load Management Area, currently on THTC in DD2 area

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Hey ​@janie

There are a few ways that you can check if you live in a Load Management Area. 

1. You can check at https://www.powercut105.com/findoperator and input your postcode into the search form.If your postcode is recorded in the database then this will display the distributors network you are connected to, as well as the single letter ‘Load Block Identifier’
2. You can check on your electricity bill, and look for a single letter on its own, or with text like ‘Postcode area alpha identifier’. It will usually be in the top 1/3rd of your bill and sometimes be enclosed in a box. If you have a combined gas and electricity energy bill then it may be in the electricity breakdown area of your bill and not on the first page.
3. Contact your supplier

You can read more about this here. I hope this helps!

​@Chris_OVO  Thanks, will give it a try later

​@Chris_OVO 

This is what I got, is this a load managed area ?

Nothing at all in my block square !

Last I was told, I was in a load block area.

​@shetland thanks, it was because of your previous post/transcript regarding tariffs that made me wonder, if and when my rts transfer takes place I have been offered economy 10 which according to the transcript you had isn't available in load managed areas so thought I would check it out in advance 

Rota blocks are groups of customers or substations spread all over the country. If the national grid suddenly found itself obliged to restrict the power available to customers, the restriction would be applied according to a rota, evenly spread by time and location, so everyone suffered a bit rather than some suffering a lot and others not at all. So all those in rota block P in the Scottish Hydro area might find themselves without power from 8-11 am tomorrow, while those in block Q were without from 11 am to 2 pm. 

Load management areas (LMAs) are areas where the power distribution network isn’t robust enough to be able always to meet peak demand. The DNO can lay down that some customers in an LMA will get offpeak power for heating between, say, midnight and 3 am while others will get it between 3 and 6 am. While some LMAs have been in place for many years, they can be fluid. If a particular area has a sudden supply failure, the areas round about can be turned into or join an LMA so they’re able to contribute to supplying the area where the fault occurred. LMAs are usually rural.   

I suppose that where the DNO is managing the supply anyway, there’s no need for those in an LMA to be in a specific rota block. 

​@Firedog for info, Shetland's not connected to the national grid - potentially later this year. THTC was originally developed in Orkney and Shetland to manage the peak load demand on the local power stations, Shetland still has a local power station and with 5,000 RTS customers I'd assume the management of peak load is still an important function of THTC, whether the whole isles are classed as an LMA, that I don't know?