{"id":839,"date":"2008-02-26T06:28:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=839"},"modified":"2008-02-26T06:28:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:28:27","slug":"smart-meters-a-smart-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Smart meters a smart idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/02\/fuel_poverty_growing_worse.html\">blogged<\/a> about how the recent increase in fuel prices is forcing more and more UK households into fuel poverty. One way of reducing fuel usage &#8211; which saves money for consumers and reduces damaging emissions &#8211; is to install smart meters. The cost is variously estimated at between \u00a36 billion-\u00a313 billion, but the benefits would be considerable.<br \/>\nIn Italy, which has had smart meters in its 30M homes since 2005, energy use has dropped 5% a year. Parts of the USA and Canada that have taken up smart meters report similar drops in consumption.<br \/>\nMore information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/feb\/20\/energyefficiency.smartmeters\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energywatch.org.uk\/uploads\/Look_Smart_Campaign_18_October_2007.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I blogged about how the recent increase in fuel prices is forcing more and more UK households into fuel poverty. One way of reducing fuel usage &#8211; which saves money for consumers and reduces damaging emissions &#8211; is to install smart meters. The cost is variously estimated at between \u00a36 billion-\u00a313 billion, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}