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 ...

UK energy regulator Ofgem has ordered energy companies to suspend the forced installation of prepayment meters in the homes of customers who have fallen behind on their bills. It comes as British Gas ...

New rules for energy suppliers restrict the forced use of prepayment meters - but charities and campaign groups warn they do not go far enough. Energy regulator Ofgem announced the guidelines after an ...

Thousands of energy customers who has prepayment meters installed without their permission will be entitled to up to £1000 compensation. Regulator Ofgem today said suppliers who breached the rules ...

Prepayment energy meters are back in the news at the moment for all the wrong reasons. The Mirror reported on the problem with prepayment meters last week, but we've been deluged with enquiries this ...

Not everyone has cashed in their additional energy support yet this winter. If you have a prepayment meter, find out exactly how yours is being sent to you, so you don’t miss out Marianne Calnan The ...

Households on prepayment meters in the UK could see their energy bills cost up to a third of their household income this winter, new research has warned. The most vulnerable households will be worst ...

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 ...

Customers' fears that they could be forcibly switched on to prepayment energy meters may be putting people off getting smart meters, MPs have warned. Last winter smart meters were used to switch some ...

With a prepayment meter, you pay for gas and/or electricity in advance, usually through a USB style "key" or a card. You top up the key or card with credit at a paypoint and insert it in to the meter ...

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 ...