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«| lal 9 With fewer cars being sold around the world, Nisda has become the latest car company 10 You're the tenth person already been sold. Pm sorry, but it’s @B Underline the eleven relative clauses in this newspaper article. Then, where possible, rewrite the relative clauses as reduced relative clauses. Monitors to cut home electricity use Monitors which show the real-time cost of electricity use are to be provided free of charge to homes across the UK in an effort to slow down climate change. Under the new government proposals, from, next year electricity suppliers will have to provide the devices - which have cut power use by up to, 6.5% in Canada — to all customers who want them. Domestic appliances which are left on unnecessarily are estimated to waste £900 million of electricity a year. Traditional electricity meters are usually kept out of sight in cupboards. However, the monitors, which, use microchip technology and a digital display, are intended to be placed in full view as a constant reminder of the electricity that is being used in a house at any given moment. ‘The Environment Secretary said: ‘People want to do their bit to help protect the environment as ing..toe. real-time. cost. oF. dectrsity. use, aon well as save money, and visual display units that are provided free of charge will help people do both.’ A spokeswoman for the Electricity Consumer Council said it supported any plan that would give customers access to free monitors. The shadow environment secretary said: ‘Although it is an interesting and welcome measure, there are still many details that should be considered, not least the reliability of these meters. However, the Energy Retail Council has criticised the proposal, saying that it did not go far enough. In a statement, their chief executive said: ‘We had hoped the government would recommend the introduction of ‘smart meters’ ~ which communicate electricity consumption to both the customer and the energy supplier ~ rather than meters that are only able to do half the job’ Cana 10 TD eects

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