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Is energy access a human right? (mamot.fr)

submitted 1 year ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am blocked from #newsAndStar but was able to reach the article this way:

http://web.archive.org/web/20230202102237/www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/national/23293213.british-gas-suspends-force-fitting-prepayment-meters-debt-agent-report/

Thanks for the info. I wonder if those meters take cash, or if they take no money at all and perhaps they are just a remote controlled switch. One of my concerns is whether unbanked people can pay in cash.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have a plastic key that has to be topped up at a shop which offers the service. You can only pay in cash (something to do with card fraud, apparently). I assume it is the same when they cut people off remotely via their smart meter but I don't know how the credit is physically transferred to those.