A CHOIR of energy experts has released a song to encourage home owners to install new technology.

Energise released the New Year single Changes on Thursday to celebrate the national rollout of smart meters to every home in Britain by 2020.

Choir members from several energy providers, including British Gas, SSE and E.ON, have been busy rehearsing and recording the song for the past three months.

Helen Matthews, aged 29, from Bolton, has worked for E.ON for 11 years, she said: “I’ve loved being part of the choir. I’m a bit of a diva so enjoyed being in the spotlight when we were recording.

“It was great hearing everyone sing together. The song’s going to be stuck in my head for a really long time.

“The choir has been a great way of bringing everyone together from different suppliers to promote smart meters and the benefits they’ll bring for all our customers.”

The song, Changes, was inspired by the experts helping people upgrade to new smart gas and electricity meters.

It has been composed by one of Britain’s best-known choir masters, Tim Rhys Evans of the Aloud Charity, who led Only Men Aloud to victory in prime-time BBC competition Last Choir Standing in 2008, and reached the semi-finals of 2012’s Britain’s Got Talent with Only Boys Aloud.

Smart meters are being fitted at no extra cost between now and 2020 in every home and at small business.

They show residents how much they are spending on energy in pounds and pence, helping to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint.

Mr Rhys Evans, said: “Of all the projects I have been involved in, this is certainly the most unique.

“I am quite used to putting together choirs but coming up with a song that represents the huge national transformation of energy was a welcome challenge.

“The effort from everyone involved has been truly inspiring.”