Energy firms get more time to install smart meters

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It also means the cost of installing the new equipment is likely to rise further, to more than £13bn in total. In practice, millions of people found they had new meters which didn't work properly if they switched suppliers - and millions more have not been given the technology at all. There was a pledge in the Conservative Party's 2017 election manifesto that every household and business would be offered a smart meter by the end of 2020 - and there is still that expectation.

People must get one installed. I've seen the advert where children are happy because their parent/s have got one fitted and are saving the environment and then it says 'Smart Meters do nowt for the dying polar bears'. But get one anyway.

Well they did take a long time to install mine! Still don't work though

No dumb meter for me thanks, imposed by the dumb government.

Why ? They don't work

Lol, don’t do it peeps.

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