Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup

The handover marks the end of a 13-year licence for Smart DCC, a subsidiary of Capita, after years of spiralling costs and delaysControl over Great Britain’s 39m smart meters has passed to a non-profit startup after its former owner presided over more than a decade of spiralling costs and delays in the troubled network.The company owned by crisis-hit outsourcing firm…