{"id":75336,"date":"2026-06-06T02:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/?p=75336"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:57:25","slug":"your-electricity-meter-isnt-transmitting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/zw1-2-en\/your-electricity-meter-isnt-transmitting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Your electricity meter isn\u2019t transmitting data…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have to stand up to stupidity and arrogance when you feel that enough is enough. Don\u2019t you agree?<\/span><\/p>\n

After a period of consultation and discussion, we at ECO 123 decided in 2010 to embark on a path to reduce our carbon footprint. We considered entrusting our money to a bank in Monchique. But they wanted to get rich at our expense. So we invested our money in clean electricity generation. A return of around twelve per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Solar production 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2011, we then signed a production contract with EDP. At the time, we were among the first solar energy producers in Monchique and, for the first eight years, we received 38 cents per kWh of electricity fed into the grid. After that, the contract ran for a further seven years at a rate of 22 cents per kWh and is now, after 15 years, slowly coming to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Solar production 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For some time now, EDP has stopped paying on time. Sometimes billing is delayed because they make absurd claims, for example, that they cannot read the production data. They claim that the connection, the communication via the SIM card between our two monitoring systems \u2014 comprising a total of 40 modules \u2014 and SU Eletricidade, which buys the electricity, is not working. What nonsense. Recently, I received an invoice (credit note) covering the period from November 2025 to May 2026, billed in a single day for a six-month production period. Sometimes in Portugal,\u00a0 a company can save money through fraud. Investors should be aware of this before investing here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to make an equally bizarre claim. Ever since EDP sold a large portion of its shares to China, the management has been slow to pay up. I can\u2019t prove it, nor do I want to; I simply want to put forward a bizarre claim whose truth vanishes into thin air when you look behind the scenes. I\u2019m doing the same as e-redes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week we received yet another email of this sort from the company e-redes, which belongs to EDP and is responsible for grid feed-in and the recording of the solar power we generate. And there it said once again that they couldn\u2019t contact the meter and that we should hire a technician to ensure communication. \u201c<\/span>Your electricity meter is not transmitting any data…<\/i><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Digital signature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Listen, dear Fernanda Barbosa from e-redes. I wanted to give you a friendly reply today. But I can\u2019t reply to you because you\u2019re sending emails from an address that reads: no-reply@e-redes.pt<\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

We are now going to put a stop to this nonsense. Anyone who treats their customers with practices straight out of the Salazar era (and there are quite a few customers in Portugal who do just that) and dictates to the customer how they should respond will simply be blocked online from 15 June 2026. They can stick their emails where the sun don\u2019t shine. I\u2019ll then tell you that we can only be reached by phone or post, which would be just as daft, because what\u2019s the internet for? Think carefully about how you treat your customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Electricity meter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And yes, I\u2019d be happy to provide you with the meter reading for our solar production by phone or perhaps even online, via ECO 123: <\/span>99,726 kWh<\/b><\/span> since production began, so just under 100,000 cleanly produced kilowatt-hours. <\/span>Today is 31 May<\/b><\/span>. We took the meter reading at exactly 10 o\u2019clock in the morning. If you\u2019d like proof, we\u2019ll take a photo of the meter reading to go with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t pay for our solar production on time, that\u2019s no problem at all. Just get in touch. We offer payment by instalments. Improve your communication, and you\u2019ll improve your ranking…<\/span><\/p>\n

I can only advise any dissatisfied reader not to waste any more time on unnecessary discussions with EDP and its subsidiaries. Simply switch your electricity supplier. You could become a member of Portugal\u2019s first electricity cooperative, at https:\/\/www.coopernico.org<\/a> \u2026 They will help you there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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trained television journalist, book author and hobby botanist, father of two grown-up children, has known Portugal for 35 years, founder of ECO123.
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