Energy: Meters

(asked on 13th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the number of households that have both (a) legacy pre-payment meters and (b) rely on alternative fuels in (i) Scotland and (ii) the UK.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 18th January 2023

In Scotland in Q3 2022, there were 497,943 customers on prepayment meters, of which 203,484 are smart meters and 294,459 are traditional meters.

In the UK in Q3 2022, there were 4,069,814 customers on prepayment meters, of which 2,041,635 are smart meters and 2,028,179 are traditional meters.

170,000 homes are using alternative fuel for heating in Scotland and over 1.2m homes do so across Great Britain as a whole.

The Government does not hold data on how many households have both.

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