Under the plans, each home would get a new smart gas meter and a new electricity meter.
In the Highlands and then back in London, Keating gave pictures to friends and neighbors, acquaintances at the corner pub, the man who read his gas meter.
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It said British Gas had equalised prepaid meter charges for just gas while Scottish Power, EDF Energy and Powergen had equalised charges for electricity.
Scottish gas consumption per meter was the highest in Britain, but both Scottish and British consumption fell by 19% between 2005 and 2009.
The company is currently trialling its ADM smart meter device for gas and water, both in the UK and internationally.
In November, China unveiled a plan to subsidize 0.4 yuan (6.4 cents) for each cubic meter of shale gas produced between 2012 and 2015, according to the Chinese Ministry of Finance.
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The industry watchdog said no major supplier had equalised prepayment meter charges with standard credit for both gas and electricity.
Germany already gets around 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia, a number that may very well increase with the coming online of the 55 billion-cubic-meter (bcm) Nordstream natural gas pipeline at the end of 2011.
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Of course this means that in addition to the endless marketing mailings and calls we already get from the cable and telecom companies, we'll now have to listen to the gas man's pitch about broadband when he comes to read the meter.
The company should have removed the meter from a house across the road, and Mr Hawthorn, who is disabled, was left without gas for five days.
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