How smart is the Government’s rollout of smart meters? – ITV News

How smart is the Government’s rollout of smart meters?

by Chris Choi, ITV Consumer Editor
The rollout of smart meters across the UK is estimated to cost every household £215.
The rollout of smart meters across the UK is estimated to cost every household £215. Photo: Jens BÃŒttner/DPA

If you are an energy customer this affects you.

How much by? £10.6 billion – that’s how much.

That’s the cost of installing smart meters in every home in Britain and every last penny of that cost will be added to our already creaking and straining bills. Now MPs are questioning whether the whole thing is really that smart.

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They are publicising the figures behind this meter roll out.

  • The cost of installing smart meters will be £215 per home – plus there will be running costs on top of that.
  • Yet the average saving for each bill will be just 2% – which MPs say isn’t enough of a justification.
  • And they are worried about consultants being used by the Government – which has spent £14 million so far on outside help for the department of energy.

Alongside the figures – there are two other big concerns.

The first is…

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1 Comment
  1. …what about the costs of the damages done from these devices where they burned down homes and killed people?……