{"id":338468,"date":"2026-03-10T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:47:12","slug":"smart-meter-glitch-households-told-they-owe-thousands-of-euro-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338468\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart meter glitch: households told they owe thousands of euro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">One download from a smart meter told a householder they had consumed close to \u20ac9,000 worth of electricity in the first week of March\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smart meters generated graphics at the weeked that told consumers they were using massive amounts of electricity. Stock image. Photo: Alamy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2189146d-90f1-445c-9e87-c9fc6faf2ca6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Smart meters generated graphics at the weeked that told consumers they were using massive amounts of electricity. Stock image. Photo: Alamy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A massive malfunction on electricity smart meters over the weekend meant some householders were told they had consumed thousands of euro of energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hundreds of thousands of people are understood to have been impacted by the blunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One download from a smart meter told a householder they had consumed close to \u20ac9,000 worth of electricity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15457,72,3361,943,12613,22251,22250,61,60,3362],"class_list":["post-338468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bord-gais-energy","tag-business","tag-charlie-weston","tag-cost-of-living","tag-electric-ireland","tag-energia-group","tag-esb-group","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-money-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}