Will smart meters generate more electricity than ordinary meters?

Smart meters will not be more expensive than ordinary meters.

Smart meter is the intelligent terminal of smart grid, and it is no longer a traditional meter. In order to adapt to the use of smart grid and new energy, smart meters also have intelligent functions such as two-way multi-rate metering function, user control function, two-way data communication function of various data transmission modes, and anti-theft function. Smart meters represent the development direction of smart terminals for end users of energy-saving smart grids in the future.

Common electric meters: Our current household electric meters are all active electric meters, which record the active electric energy consumed by electrical appliances, not the reactive electric energy. Only the active electric energy is consumed by electric heating elements such as ordinary light bulbs and electric furnaces, while some inductive or capacitive loads (motors, televisions, air conditioners, fluorescent lamps, etc.) consume the reactive electric energy other than the active electric energy. That is to say, the apparent power of inductive load is the vector sum of active power and reactive power, and the difference between them is 90 degrees, so the apparent "degree" work is of course greater than the active power recorded by the watt-hour meter.

Installing smart meters does not necessarily mean that electricity bills will drop. Active power saving is not smart enough. At present, it is only a tool to optimize people's electricity habits.

Compared with the old-fashioned meters, smart meters have many functions, such as high measurement accuracy, intelligent charge deduction, real-time electricity price inquiry, electricity storage, meter reading time freezing, balance alarm, remote information transmission and so on, which can avoid human error to the greatest extent and effectively prevent electricity theft.