EDF, ScottishPower, and Octopus have been granted approval to resume force-fitting prepayment meters in people’s homes nearly a year after the practice was banned following a scandal. The British ...
Ofgem has recommended energy providers stop imposing prepayment meters into the homes of some customers. An investigation revealed that debt collectors had forcibly entered houses to install ...
Recent Ofgem figures reveal that there are now 5.9 million energy customers using prepayment meters, but only around 1 million of these are actually repaying a debt. This means that at least 4.9 ...
If you're struggling to pay your energy bills and have built up a debt on your account, your supplier may want to move you onto a prepayment meter so they can collect repayments over time. But prepay ...
The UK plans to reform rules around prepayment energy meters, to protect financially vulnerable consumers in the wake of a recent uproar over forced installations. Ministers are drawing up changes to ...
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, announced the release of the Itron Intelis gFlex prepayment ...
Ms. Hudson is the author, most recently, of “Lowborn,” a memoir of growing up poor in Britain. GLASGOW — I grew up in a string of dilapidated slum rentals, project housing and homeless hostels. I grew ...
Tens of thousands of people who were forced to have prepaid energy meters fitted are in line to get compensation. Customers could get up to £1,000 each, as well as have their debt written off, with ...
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