Connecting your smart meter to the equiwatt app for the first time - tutorial

Follow this guide to add your Smart Meter to your equiwatt account to earn rewards for saving energy and CO2.

After you have registered your equiwatt account you will be guided through the account setup process.

Part of this process is connecting your smart meter by adding your MPAN (sometimes known as your electricity supply number) and verifying your address by using your In-Home Display (IHD) or a payment card registered to your home address (You will be charged 30p and instantly refunded). Read on to get started.

Step 1: Add your MPAN

• Enter your MPAN. This is sometimes known as your electricity supply number and can be found on your electricity bill.

  

• Select your energy supplier from the drop-down list 

Step 2: Connect your smart meter to equiwatt

• Confirm that you wish to connect your smart meter to equiwatt.

  

Step 3: Terms and Conditions

• Review and confirm that you accept the terms and conditions and consent to giving equiwatt access to your smart meter data.

  

Step 4: Confirm your move-in date

• Let us know when you moved into your address so that we know how much data to request. 

Step 5: Verify your address

• In order for equiwatt to connect to your smart meter, please select one of the following options to verify your address.

• • Option 1: Use a payment card to confirm your address. 

• • Option 2: Use a code from your In-Home Display (IHD)
  • Option 3: Send proof of address to us via email

• Option 1: Use a payment card

  • Read the terms for using a credit/debit card to verify your address and select continue once you are ready to proceed.

• • Enter your payment card details when prompted and then 'continue'.
    
    

• • Once you have successfully verified your address and added your smart meter you are all set and ready to take part in your first equivent and get rewarded for saving energy at peak times!
    
    

• Option 2: Use your In-Home Display

  • If you choose to verify your address via your In-Home Display (IHD), you will need to provide a code known as either your MAC, GUID or EUI number from your smart meter's In-Home Display (IHD). Click here for help locating this code.

• • Once you have located your GUID/MAC/EUI number, enter the last 4 digits to verify your address. We have included the last digit to help you locate the correct number.

• • If the In-Home Display code verification is unsuccessful you can either try contacting us via the app or you can go back and continue to verify your address with Option 1 or Option 3.

• Once you have successfully verified your address and added your smart meter you are all set and ready to take part in your first equivent and get rewarded for saving energy at peak times!

Option 3: Send proof of address to us via email

• If you do not have access to your In-Home Display (IHD) (Option 2) or do not want to verify your address via the payment card method (Option 1) you can send us proof of address via email at hello@equiwatt.com and we can manually verify your address.
• In order for us to verify your address, you will need to provide us with your MPAN (also known as your electricity supply number) - This can be found on your electricity bill and will look something like the 13-digit number highlighted in white in the image below. Click here for more information on your MPAN and where to find it.

• If you are not the electricity bill payer and your name does not appear on your energy bill then you will also need to provide us with further documentation that clearly shows that you are a resident of the address that your smart meter is registered to. 
• Acceptable documents include:
  • Current UK driving licence.
  • Current signed passport.
  • Utility bill (gas, satellite television, landline phone bill) issued within the last 3 months.
  • Tenancy agreement for the current year.
  • Local authority council tax bill for the current council tax year.

• Once we have received your verification documents, we will manually check them and verify them to complete the smart meter setup. Please allow up to 5 working days for your MPAN and address to be verified by our team.

Step 6: Smart meter connected

• Once your smart meter is connected you will be able to see the energy usage from your smart meter in the app by selecting 'Smart Meter' in the 'Manage' tab.