If you have solar installed it will measure the amount of energy that is being sent to the grid and will use this energy to power your home.
How to read a smart meter with solar panels.
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.
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.
For this reason we only need to read your regular meter to work out how much solar power will save you.
The latest crisis to hit the controversial smart meter is that the technology does not have the intelligence to correctly read the energy created from 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.
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.