A campaign is growing in Europe to halt the forced use of prepayment meters Meanwhile, the UK appears likely to restart court warrants ahead of winter 🔴 deankirby_ reports
The Brussels-based Right to Energy Coalition wants “forced blackouts” to be banned including the enforced installation of prepay devices as they can also leave people in the cold and dark.
According to EU data, prepayment meters are widely used only in Britain at 14.4 per cent for electricity and in Romania, at 17.7 per cent. Countries across Europe have different approaches to prepayment meters and there are also differences in policy within countries. In the House of Commons in February, the Energy Minister Graham Stuart said he had asked officials to look at this idea, known as “load limiting”, but added: “There are a lot of technical and other challenges to such a system.”
The Alliance Against Energy Poverty in Barcelona says in the Manifesto for a Ban on Energy Disconnections that the idea in Catalonia is to “change the logic” to show that if someone fails to pay it could be because they are unable rather than because they do not want to.In the UK, Neil Kenward, director of strategy at Ofgem,that the aim is for a new prepayment code of practice for suppliers to be “fully enforceable before the winter”.
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