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Smart meters: 'Dog's breakfast' that'll only save you 'a tenner' – report

theOtherJT Silver badge

A full national roll out will consume around 250 MW of additional power

Do you have a source for that? I mean, it seems intuitive to me that these things will consume more power - but I'd love to see some actual figures for how much more.

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