Costs?
"E.ON has also gained financially by avoiding the costs of installing and operating the new meters."
The entire selling point of smart metres has been that everyone saves money - customers can optimise their usage and only pay for exactly what they use, providers get to reduce waste and optimise production against demand, the government gets all kinds of tasty data to play with. If E.ON have gained financially by not installing metres, that kind of suggests that the entire thing has been a pack of lies from the start. Which is a revelation I'm sure we all find extremely shocking, but it is a little surprising that they're so blatant about admitting it. Maybe the right hand should have asked the left hand to leave that part out of the criticism? "You save money by not doing the thing we said would cost less" isn't quite the message they were supposed to be sending.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
