Hi, Councillor Nathan Zampranya here from Boothed Recity Council. Here's your energy efficiency tip for the day. Do you have one of those old mechanical twirly power meters on your home? Many people are getting smart meters now, but you might not get one unless you've just acquired solar or you've built a new house or you're doing major renovations to your home. Many of the smaller power retailers will give you a smart meter for nothing just by changing over to them. And maybe they represent a better deal. You should look into that. Power shop would be a good example. But a lot of people, including me and my family, are on origin. Origin will not give you a smart meter. Their rollout has been glacially slow. The New South Wales government announced between eight and ten years ago that there would be a smart meter program and that eventually everyone would have a smart meter. But crucially, they let the industry do that rollout at their own pace. So they've done it as slowly as they possibly could. In Victoria, the situation is different. In Victoria, everyone's had a smart meter for years. What can you do with a smart meter? Well, you can use it on your phone and you can download how much electricity you're using every hour, every day, every week, instead of relying on that aggregate total, you're getting your power bill once a month or once a quarter. It's a great way of working out how you are being energy efficient and how much you're spending on electricity and when during the day you're using it and whether you should change or whether you should consider solar. So origin, being the griller in the room with revenues of $15 billion a year and four and a half million customers simply refused to give you a smart meter unless you bagged it and here's the suit. I bagged it and even though they told me five times that there was no way that I could get a free smart meter, eventually they gave me a free smart meter. The trick is this, you need to call them and speak to a senior metering specialist and you need to tell them that if they do it for one person, they should do it for everybody at no charge. And the only reason why origin isn't doing this on a larger scale is because they're lazy. So I'm sure that they don't want me to tell you this and this is exactly why you should share this video as widely as you can. If you are with one of the larger electricity retailers like Origin and they won't give you a smart meter, call them and demand it.