Dive Summary:
- Since UK announced the delay of its national smart meter roll-out, electricity experts have criticized the technology promising to help customers reduce energy use and modernize the grid.
- Energy analyst Alex Henney, a former London Electricity board member, said the technology behind the smart meter was "another government IT disaster in the making."
- Henney says customers could easily get the same information they need from weblinks or smartphone apps rather than smart meters.
From the article:
"Mr Henney said that they would cost around £600m to introduce nationwide, and predicted that "around half" of them would never be used."