#prepaymeters — Public Fediverse posts

Three energy firms allowed to force-fit prepayment meters again | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/08/energy-firms-allowed-to-force-fit-prepayment-meters-again

#ForceFitPrepayMeters
#PrepayMeters
#EDF
#Octopus
#ScottishPower
#Ofgem
#VulnerableCustomers
#BritishGas
#Centrica
#EndFuelPovertyCoalition
#EndFuelPoverty

Ofgem records big rise in households with prepayment meters being cut off | Energy bills | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/07/ofgem-records-big-rise-in-households-with-prepayment-meters-being-cut-off

#Ofgem
#PrepayMeters
#CutOff
#SelfDisconnections
#PPM
#PriceCap
#EnergyBills
#Energy
#GovSupportRemoved

Pre-payment meter customers are £1bn in debt, campaigners say | Morning Star
#PrepayMeters
#Debt
#FuelPoverty
#FuelPovertyAction
#ForceFit
#Ofgem
#NationalPensionersConvention
#Energy
#EnergyFirms
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/pre-payment-meter-customers-are-ps1bn-debt-campaigners-say

British Gas debt agents 'broke into woman's home' with dad on his deathbed - Mirror Online
#PrePayMeters
#FittersBreakingIn
#ForceFit https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-gas-debt-agents-broke-29195506
>Elizabeth Garrett says she returned from hospital to find British Gas subcontractors had taken her door off its hinges - and workers even made themselves a cup of tea as they force-fitted the meter

Ofgem orders energy firms to suspend force-fitting of prepayment meters | Morning Star
#Ofgem
#ForceFit
#PrepayMeters
#PrepaymentMeters
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/ofgem-orders-energy-firms-to-suspend-force-fitting-of-prepayment-meters

The 'horror' expressed by #GrantShapps & the CEO of #Centrica, that people operating on their behalf are breaking into homes to install #prepaymeters is just yet more declaratory politics...

Of course they knew this was happening, but no doubt it was so masked in business gobbledygook that they were able to practice plausible deniability until a reporter (from the Times) went undercover & joined a crew doing the work...

There is no defence for their claimed 'ignorance' of what was being done!