The plan will affect 26 million homes and several million businesses across, and save consumers between £2.5bn ($3.8bn) and £3.6bn over the next 20 years, according to the government.
“The meters most of us have in our homes were designed for a different age, before climate change,” says Ed Miliband, UK energy and climate change secretary. “We need to get smarter with our energy.”
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