An estimated 600,000 people were put onto the pay-as-you-go method last year, with 160,000 more expected by the end of the winter.
The charity said it had heard other cases, including someone unable to top up their meter even though their medication needed to be refrigerated, or a single parent with a young baby left without light or heat for 48 hours because she could not afford to put money on the meter.
"New protections are needed to stop people being fully cut off from gas and electricity. Until then, there must be a total ban on energy companies forcing those already at breaking point onto prepayment meters." "Suppliers can only install prepayment meters without consent to recover debt as a last resort," he said.
Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said: "The staggering extent of the prepayment meters scandal is now clear.
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