US EditionElectricity: Enedis Launches Alert Against Counter Fraud Linky
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The electricity system operator is stepping up its fight against piracy of communicating meters, a phenomenon which has been growing rapidly for three years.
These frauds have exploded since 2022 with the increase in the cost of energy but also due to the distribution on social networks of videos with techniques to reduce its consumption by manipulating Linky housings, according to Enedis.
They are gradually installed in all the homes: despite the vain resistances of a few Frenchmen, who still prefer their old electric meter, the Linky meter is gaining ground every year. According to the latest figures reported by Enedis, there are currently no less than 38 million fluorescent green housings, and 95 % of the equipped fireplaces. Impressive figures, which prove how much the French have adopted this meter every day. It must be said …
More than 100,000 Linky meters have been tampered with in three years. Enedis can't do it anymore and will strengthen controls.
Enedis, the electricity system manager, has launched a punch-up operation against the fraud at Linky meters. Faced with more than 100,000 cases trafficked since 2022 – a scourge that amounts to hundreds of millions of euros a year, the company is stepping up controls and plans to double its sworn agents. The tracking to fraudsters is officially open.
In the face of an unprecedented explosion of electrical meter fraud Linky, Enedis is launching a vast national operation and warning on a phenomenon that now costs several hundred million euros per year to the network operator.
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