At last, some straight talking. The chief executive of the newly established Central Delivery Body (CDB) for the rollout of smart meters has effectively laid down the gauntlet to the “dinosaurs” of the established energy supply market (p8). Sacha Deshmukh predicts that Amazon and other customer-focused service providers will move their tanks on to the big six’s lawn; that the new informed and empowered generation of energy consumers created by smart meters will look to providers they trust to manage their energy consumption in the home. Our Chief Executive Comment from Juliet Davenport this week shows Good Energy is already thinking along these lines.