Smart meters: Close to 9.5 million now operating across UK

Michael Holder
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Nationwide rollout across UK homes and businesses continues to accelerate, but government's 2020 target still some way off

The nationwide rollout of smart meters appears to be accelerating with more than one million installed in UK home and businesses between July and September this year, the latest government statistics show....

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