If you don’t have a working smart meter, your energy provider will likely ask you to provide your meter reading soon. Eneco, Vattenfall and Essent will ask customers for meter readings on 1 January 2023. Until recently, energy suppliers did not know whether they would be successful. Rtl reports it.
Suppliers want to know your energy consumption up to January 1st so they can calculate what part of your consumption is included in the maximum energy price. The ceiling comes into force on 1 January and ensures relatively low prices for gas and energy consumption that remain below a consumption limit.
Put simply, the ceiling works like this: for the first 1,200 cubic meters of gas you consume, you pay 1.45 euros per cubic metre; for the first 2900 kWh of electricity you pay 40 cents per kWh. But in practice it is the operation of the ceiling more difficult, as you can read here.
Have you received a message from your supplier?
You can expect a message from Eneco, Vattenfall and Essent if you have a dumb meter or a “conventional meter”; if you have a smart meter but you don’t have it read by your supplier; or if you have a smart meter that has a malfunction.
Essent and Eneco exchange estimates for measure
Essent and Eneco earlier said they would estimate customers’ energy consumption, rather than requesting meter readings. So now they are asking about the status of stupid counters. Vattenfall already announced on Dec. 10 that he would. “Customers don’t have to call, but can easily submit meter readings themselves via the instructions in the email or letter they receive,” Vattenfall told RTL.
What if you don’t report the meter reading?
If you don’t report your meter reading on January 1, or don’t report it in time, your energy company will still estimate your consumption.
Evidence of your meter reading?
It is not necessary to send a photo or video of the energy meter as proof. Industry organization Energie-Nederland knows that people can easily commit fraud with their stupid meter reading, they say: ‘For example, wrong meter readings are often given, digits are forgotten, high and low rates are swapped or fictitious numbers are transmitted…’
Source: RTL News