Next stop, Eastenders: Smart meters poised for a starring role in TV soaps as agency promoting them tries encourage more people to fit one By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 11:35 GMT, 22 March 2021 The ‘smart’ meter is poised to land a starring role in … 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
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
Whose crazy idea was my faulty 9ft-high smart meter? I’d need a pogo stick to read it, says furious pensioner 73-year-old Joy Thomas found her smart meter wasn’t working properly She was told she needed to supply the readings herself But because of the poor reception where she lives in Cornwall, the 5 ft tall … Read more
Whose crazy idea was my faulty 9ft-high smart meter? I’d need a pogo stick to read it, says furious pensioner By Toby Walne for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 22:56 BST, 1 August 2020 When Joy Thomas was told she needed her energy meter replaced five years ago … Read more
Smart meter rollout dented: Lockdown halts progress of installations and fewer than half of homes are predicted to have one by next summer The rollout will now only reach 48% completion by the end of June 2021 This is compared to the 61% predicted pre-pandemic Many are still averse to having a meter fitted at home … Read more