Smart meters - £8bn worth

[miniman]

So the gubberment has a genius idea to make the energy companies replace all our meters with smart meters at a cost of £8bn which will obviously be passed on to the bill payer.

47 million meters, a total spend of £8bn. That's around £170 per meter.

Or, they could buy 47 million Owl smart meters which attach to the existing meter, for £1.36bn (and that is at RRP) plus there would be no need to dispose of 47 million old meters.

What a bunch of clueless fking cockrockets.

ETA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8389880.stm

Edited by miniman on Wednesday 2nd December 17:32

[Kermit power]

Yeah! Don't you just hate people who don't look around to see what's already there before launching something new?

[miniman]

Ah.