{"id":3927,"date":"2021-12-06T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/i-cant-charge-my-electric-car-cheaply-because-im-too-close-to-an-raf-base\/"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:48:19","slug":"i-cant-charge-my-electric-car-cheaply-because-im-too-close-to-an-raf-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/i-cant-charge-my-electric-car-cheaply-because-im-too-close-to-an-raf-base\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t charge my electric car cheaply because I\u2019m too close to an RAF base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t have Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff because the meter would interfere with air force systems<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few months ago I decided to switch energy supplier and moved to Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff, principally because it offers cheap electric car charging overnight at a rate of 5p\/kWh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I applied to have the required smart meter installed. <\/strong><strong>But after being given a date, I was later declined on the basis that smart meters cannot work at my address because they interfere with the missile early warning system at RAF Fylingdales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/dec\/06\/i-cant-charge-my-electric-car-cheaply-because-im-too-close-to-an-raf-base\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0ea0549097d17cd4d643c0c5c3ce8564d0841452\/17_73_1687_1012\/master\/1687.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bbfca35cb146b736487cfc7538fe2801\" title=\"I can\u2019t charge my electric car cheaply because I\u2019m too close to an RAF base\" \/>I can\u2019t have Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff because the meter would interfere with air force systems<br \/>\nA few months ago I decided to switch energy supplier and moved to Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff, principally because it offers cheap electric car charging overnight at a rate of 5p\/kWh.<br \/>\nI applied to have the required smart meter installed. But after being given a date, I was later declined on the basis that smart meters cannot work at my address because they interfere with the missile early warning system at RAF Fylingdales. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t have Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff because the meter would interfere with air force systems A few months ago I decided to switch energy supplier and moved to Octopus Energy\u2019s Go tariff, principally because it offers cheap electric car charging overnight at a rate of 5p\/kWh. I applied to have the required smart meter &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/i-cant-charge-my-electric-car-cheaply-because-im-too-close-to-an-raf-base\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I can\u2019t charge my electric car cheaply because I\u2019m too close to an RAF base<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}