Foresight invests £7.5m in Utility Funding

Foresight will invest the £7.5m over the next three years in order to back UFL's installation programme of smart metres across UK households, a strategy driven by new government legislation.

The UK government has made it compulsory for energy consumers to have a smart or advanced metre by the end of 2019. The investment was made through Foresight ITS, the investor's inheritance tax solution.

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Utility Funding was established in Salisbury in 2009 to rent advanced electricity and gas metres to energy suppliers catering to industrial and commercial consumers.

The company is OFGEM-accredited and will play a part in supporting energy suppliers in meeting their obligations to undertake the mass smart-metre rollout for domestic consumers, which is due to commence in 2014.

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Andrew Shannon is an investment manager of Foresight.  

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