Solarpunk technology

Once again, UK investment and implementation of infrastructure is shite not the concept of smart meters.

For an example of a proper smart meter implementation nationwide, look at Estonia.

100% coverage. Works brilliantly.

In fact it works so well there's companies that use the data generated by the smart meters to predict faults on the grid on the Low Voltage (LV = less than 2000 - 1000V in the electricity transmission world). That is unheard-of elsewhere because you'd normally have to install LV monitors for a few months on a location where faults have occurred to try and find it.

Fucking Tories, fucking Westminster, fucking civil service, fucking national grid, and the fucking utility companies all dragging their heels over this because the entire energy grid is privatised whereas anywhere else sensible, the national electricity backbone is nationalised with local networks semi or fully private.

Source: I work in th power industry.