«Breaking News» Five million UK homes set for smart meter madness as thirty per cent of devices won’t work properly

More than five million homes are set to be equipped with smart energy meters that won’t work properly.

Energy suppliers have been ordered by the Government to start installing a new type of smart meter from now on.

However, The Mail on Sunday understands that these second-generation devices will not function properly in about 30 per cent of the country because they cannot yet be linked up with a central energy database.

Smart meters were supposed to start in 2014, but did not begin until 2017. By this month just 109,000 have been fitted, leaving suppliers having to install an extra 7.1million of the older meters during this time [File photo]

Homes in remote rural areas and in the North of England and Scotland are most likely to be affected. 

Just like the smart meters already fitted in 12 million British homes, the new devices – officially called ‘SMETS 2’ meters – are supposed to send usage data to power suppliers automatically.

Homeowners get instant feedback about how much they are spending on gas and electricity via a small screen in their house.

Crucially, many of the first-generation models installed so far lose their smart functions if the customer switches supplier. Nearly a million have gone ‘dumb’ in the UK.

Second-generation meters can cope with a switch of supplier – but only if they are working properly to start with.

The Government has told energy suppliers that they must offer every household and small business a smart meter by the end of 2020.

Smart meters show customers the cost of their energy in real time. It is hoped they will save households money by encouraging them to reduce the power they use [File photo]

However, new rules state that only second-generation devices count towards this target. If companies fail to meet the deadline, they face being fined by the industry regulator, Ofgem.

A senior energy industry source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We are caught between the obligation to roll out smart meters as fast as we can and the infrastructure for the next generation of smart meters not yet being ready across the whole country.’

A Government spokesman said second-generation smart meters ‘are part of an essential upgrade to our national infrastructure’.

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Energy suppliers have been ordered by the Government to start installing a new type of smart meter from now on.
However, The Mail on Sunday understands that these second-generation devices will ...

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