When it is understood how to read a smart meter with solar power smart meters work well for helping consumers save money on their power bill.
How to read a smart meter with solar panels.
The smart meter measures the total of household energy use and then sends these numbers back to the energy provider.
If you get solar power the output of the system is usually wired into the regular meter input 5 so your solar offsets the most expensive electricity.
Why we don t read the controlled load meter in this exercise.
All excess energy is then conveniently sold back to the grid.
When coupled with solar panels a smart meter can save you a substantial amount of money on your energy bills and there s nothing sexier than savings.
For this reason we only need to read your regular meter to work out how much solar power will save you.
However as your energy is produced in a different way to if you a had a standard meter some coming from the solar panels and some from the grid we asked an expert how a smart meter would.