Ministers are being urged to stop the installation of prepayment meters after revelations that 3.2 million people – or one person every 10 seconds – were left with cold and dark homes last year as they ran out of credit, the Guardian reports. An estimated 600,000 people were forced to make the switch away from credit meters after racking up debt with their energy supplier in 2022 – up from 380,000 in 2021, the paper says.