ENERGY firms may soon resume breaking into people’s homes to fit prepayment meters unless ministers step in, fuel campaigners have warned.

Revelations that energy firms were employing bailiffs using court warrants to force their way into thousands of customers’ homes to install prepayment meters caused outrage in February.

Energy companies’ poorest and most vulnerable customers were targeted for installation of the devices, which cut off their energy supplies if the meter is not fed money.