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Energy: Meters

Answer

Ofgem closely monitors domestic energy supplies’ performance and publishes information on prepayment meters customer accounts in Great Britain. Ofgem does not monitor the gas and electricity supply market in Northern Ireland, as it is devolved matter.

The table below shows either the number or proportion of domestic customers paying by prepayment meters in Great Britain in 2006 to 2015. Smart meters operating in pay-as-you-go mode are also classified as PPM for these statistics. Ofgem has changed the way it presents the data on the number of households using pre-payment meters in its Domestic Suppliers Social Obligations annual reports, and this is accounted for in the table below.

	2006		2007		2008
	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers
Gas	2.3	--	2.3	--	2.4	--
Electricity	3.6	--	3.6	--	3.6	--

	2009		2010		2011
	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers
Gas	2.6	--	2.7	--	2.91	--
Electricity	3.8	--	4.0	--	4.09	--

	2012		2013		2014
	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers
Gas	3.09	--	3.28	--	3.39	15%
Electricity	4.25	--	4.42	--	4.49	17%

	2015
	No. of PPMs customers (millions)	Proportion of PPMs customers
Gas	--	15.3%
Electricity	--	16.6%

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

53705

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Energy Meters Pre-payment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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