Check that your Linky meter calculates your consumption correctly
Jacob's Ladder - Feb 24, 2024
Electricity bill too high? Check that your Linky meter calculates your consumption correctly.
Are you paying more for electricity than you consume? Your Linky meter may be incorrectly connected. Here are two simple methods for identifying potential anomalies.
The energy crisis is pushing individuals to be more and more attentive to their electricity bill. Their major concern? Determine how to reduce their consumption to reduce the amount to pay. But be careful, the effort will be in vain if the meter is incorrectly connected and you are billed for your neighbor's consumption.
The origin of this problem essentially comes from the installation of the meter by Enedis technicians or their subcontractors. In six years, between 2015 and 2021, they installed 35 million new smart meters. A massive deployment which could have caused errors. Unlike its disk-based predecessors, the new Enedis meter requires, once the cables are connected, to be programmed with the Delivery Point (PDL) corresponding to the correct housing. It happened that the technicians reversed two programmings by injecting the customer's PDL into the neighbor's meter. If most of these installation errors could be detected and corrected quickly, it is possible to check that the electricity billed to you is indeed that consumed.
The first thing to do to ensure a good connection is to read your PDL (also called PRM, for Measurement Reference Point) on the Linky screen:
On your Linky meter, press the + button and scroll through the information until you see “PRM number”. This 14-digit number is unique and identifies a delivery point to the distribution network.
Then, on your invoice, look for this number, usually in the box on the left. It must be strictly identical to that of your meter.
In addition to the PDL/PRM, you can check the serial number of the meter. The latter, also 14 digits, is physically printed on the counter above the screen.
You must also be able to find it on your invoice. The consistency of this information guarantees that you will be billed on the consumption recorded by the device.
An additional method to check that Linky is supplying your home and only it, consists of cutting off the power supply and checking the absence of power recorded by the measuring device. To do this, scroll through the Linky information until you see “THEN APP SOUTIR” (for apparent power drawn). If you consume electricity at the same time, the value on the screen is non-zero and fluctuates depending on which devices are turned on. Then cut off the power supply to your home by lowering the lever of your subscriber circuit breaker. On the Linky screen, the power drawn must drop to zero. If this is not the case, your meter is incorrectly connected.
