‘Smart’ meter poised for starring role in TV soaps as Government agency promoting it seeks to encourage more people to fit one in their home By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 20 March 2021 The ‘smart’ meter is poised to land a starring role … Read more
ASK TONY: The silly smart meter that was in our new home when we moved in has sent us a shocking £3k bill My partner purchased our house prior to us getting together and set up a contract with EDF which ran from March 2019 to, I believe, March 2020. When joining, he told the … Read more
ASK TONY: The silly smart meter that was in our new home when we moved in has sent us a shocking £3k bill My partner purchased our house prior to us getting together and set up a contract with EDF which ran from March 2019 to, I believe, March 2020. When joining, he told the … Read more
Another UK firm in foreign hands: Smart meter installer Calisen to be bought by overseas investors By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 18 January 2021 Calisen confirmed it was pushing ahead with a takeover from a consortium of major international investors Smart-meter business Calisen … Read more
I moved supplier a couple of years ago to save money on my energy bills. However, when I did my smart meter stopped working. I moved back to my original supplier, Eon, in an attempt to get it working again but still it would not work. I am 87 years old and my meters are … Read more
Will your smart gas meter suddenly die when you’re cooking a Christmas turkey? It really could happen because millions of vital batteries are about to run out By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 17 October 2020 Millions of homes that use ‘smart’ meters to … Read more
I changed to energy supplier E.ON in August 2019 and took up its offer of a smart meter. I think it installed the dumbest one they had in stock. From the word go, the ‘in house display’ has not worked. The engineer said it would take a few weeks to sort itself out. I rang … Read more
Government’s smart meter roll out hit by lockdown: Installations crept up by just 0.4% in three months By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 1 September 2020 | Updated: 22:38 BST, 1 September 2020 Off line: Only 135,000 smart meters were installed between April and June Lockdown has heaped misery on the … Read more
Smart meter installations have plummeted this year, thanks to the coronavirus, new data has revealed. The number of smart meters operating in smart mode at the end of June is almost unchanged from three months’ previous – with an increase of just 0.4 per cent, according to official smart meter statistics from the Government. In … Read more
SSE failed to hit smart meter targets last year and its parent firm Ovo is forced to fork out £1.2m to Ofgem Ovo is paying out on behalf of SSE after it failed to meet smart meter targets This is not the first time the company has been unable to do so Smart meters have … Read more