The frozen north
I can tell you that in the northern region of England, at least, repairing the existing dumb metering systems is playing second fiddle to rolling out their replacements. A (planned) power outage resulted in my Economy 7 timer being out by around 8 hours, meaning that the water and storage heaters were operating at an economically unatrractive time of day.
Putting the clock right is a two minute job, but after six months and a succession of cancelled appointments - because the meter repair team was reassigned to smart meter installations - it still wasn't fixed. I moved house and it still wasn't fixed 6 months after the new residents moved in.
And at the time, they were still installing the original smart meters, knowing they'd need either upgrading or replacing shortly after.
Madness.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
