Rural fears over RTS changes

The Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel is calling for the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) switch off to be delayed, after fears from rural communities - including in Perth and Kinross - that they will be left without heating or hot water because their current meters have not yet been replaced.

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A new report-Fuel poverty in remote and rural Scotland: focus group analysisproduced by the Panel in association with energy advisory agencies Allenergy, Scarf and Tighean Innse Gall, reveals deep anxiety from people in remote areas about the imminent switch off from June 30.

The switch-off is the planned shutdown of the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), a legacy system used across GB, but which is particularly common in Scotland, to control certain electricity meters and tariffs remotely via radio signals.