Customers in #Whalsay & #Yell left without power claiming to have been fobbed off

Households reported having no power after their prepay customer keys stopped working

Residents said #OVO had been “unhelpful”

Speaking to OVO was useless, they didn’t know anything

Another had to go off Whalsay to top up her 76 y/o great uncle’s card; he received no warning from OVO

James spent two hours on phone trying to get a solution from OVO

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2023/12/07/ovo-customers-in-whalsay-and-yell-left-without-power

#electricity #Shetland #prepay #energy

OVO customers in Whalsay and Yell left without power - The Shetland Times

Households in Whalsay and Yell have been left without power during sub-zero temperatures, with some residents claiming to have been “fobbed off” by an energy co

The Shetland Times
McFilter: Interesting Things on the Internet: February 27th 2023 Edition

I know the inhumanity of prepayment meters. Forget reform – they should be abolished

The energy companies’ recent climbdown is pleasing, but the prepay system is fundamentally unfair. It’s got to go, says author Kerry Hudson

The Guardian

We live in a country where those who earn the least have to pay the most for their energy.

We live in a country where #energy companies can get courts to sign off warrants to enter homes and forcibly install #prepay meters hundreds at a time without properly checking if the occupants are disabled, elderly or have babies.

Where is the humanity?

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/11/call-to-end-forced-installation-of-uk-prepayment-meters-after-millions-suffer-without-power

Call to end forced installation of UK prepayment meters after millions suffer without power

Report shows 3.2m people disconnected last year as they ran out of credit

The Guardian

#letsroll

⚃ ⚀ ⚀ ⚃ ⚅→#maximize
⚃ ⚀ ⚅ ⚃ ⚃→#napkin
⚁ ⚀ ⚃ ⚃ ⚀→#crispy
⚁ ⚂ ⚂ ⚃ ⚅→#direness
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay
⚁ ⚃ ⚄ ⚀ ⚂→#easel

maximize-napkin-crispy-direness-prepay-easel

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚀ ⚂ ⚅ ⚂ ⚁→#bootie
⚁ ⚄ ⚅ ⚂ ⚂→#etching
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay
⚃ ⚃ ⚃ ⚀ ⚄→#plastic
⚁ ⚂ ⚅ ⚄ ⚅→#doorman
⚃ ⚃ ⚁ ⚂ ⚂→#pension

bootie-etching-prepay-plastic-doorman-pension

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚂ ⚀ ⚄ ⚃ ⚅→#frosted
⚃ ⚅ ⚅ ⚄ ⚄→#refining
⚃ ⚃ ⚅ ⚁ ⚁→#pond
⚀ ⚃ ⚀ ⚃ ⚃→#bribe
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay
⚂ ⚄ ⚀ ⚃ ⚀→#jiffy

frosted-refining-pond-bribe-prepay-jiffy

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚃ ⚃ ⚃ ⚀ ⚅→#plated
⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚁ ⚀→#rounding
⚅ ⚃ ⚅ ⚄ ⚀→#untouched
⚂ ⚃ ⚅ ⚄ ⚁→#jackpot
⚀ ⚃ ⚂ ⚃ ⚂→#bulk
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay

plated-rounding-untouched-jackpot-bulk-prepay

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚁ ⚅ ⚁ ⚃ ⚄→#expire
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay
⚅ ⚂ ⚁ ⚅ ⚂→#unawake
⚃ ⚃ ⚂ ⚂ ⚃→#petted
⚁ ⚄ ⚁ ⚁ ⚂→#emphasis
⚂ ⚂ ⚀ ⚄ ⚅→#guiding

expire-prepay-unawake-petted-emphasis-guiding

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚀ ⚁ ⚀ ⚂ ⚅→#antiques
⚅ ⚄ ⚃ ⚁ ⚀→#vaporizer
⚅ ⚁ ⚁ ⚃ ⚀→#throat
⚁ ⚃ ⚁ ⚄ ⚂→#drool
⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#prepay
⚂ ⚁ ⚀ ⚄ ⚃→#geology

antiques-vaporizer-throat-drool-prepay-geology

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation