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Keep reading negative things about smart meters - I recall when national grid first took over and they bullied the 90 year old neighbor telling them if she didn't let them change her meter they would shut her off - had to call the headquarters emergency hotline for her and the goons sitting in their truck in the front of her house got called back. Hopefully fired.
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I think the folks in the link are just mad because California has rolling black outs/brown outs due to a lack of electricity. Unless they have corrected their laws no one wants to sell to them because of the locked in low price compounded by a lack of generating capability.
We have remote meters for water/gas/electricity where I live and never have an issue.
Keep reading negative things about smart meters - I recall when national grid first took over and they bullied the 90 year old neighbor telling them if she didn't let them change her meter they would shut her off - had to call the headquarters emergency hotline for her and the goons sitting in their truck in the front of her house got called back. Hopefully fired.
Couldn't get the link in your post to load. What's the negative on "smart" meters? These are the ones that allow the utility to read the meter remotely from the street, right?
I just let them put one in my house. They always left the gate open and my dogs end up getting out. They are likely to get bit barging in unannounced like that. Not to mention that I have a pool and a propped open gate is dangerous.
I figured being able to keep them out of my yard was a good thing.
Couldn't get the link in your post to load. What's the negative on "smart" meters? These are the ones that allow the utility to read the meter remotely from the street, right?
I just let them put one in my house. They always left the gate open and my dogs end up getting out. They are likely to get bit barging in unannounced like that. Not to mention that I have a pool and a propped open gate is dangerous.
I figured being able to keep them out of my yard was a good thing.
Aside from the unknown health issues of having constant impulses of radiation pulsing through every electrical outlet in your home over the long term?
People have complained the electric company automatically lowers the temperature or raises the temperature of your appliances if it senses you are not home. People have complained they came home to spoiled food from the refrigerator temperature being turned down so low, dead plants, dead fish, pets suffering from heat exhausting because their AC was turned down or turned off and so and so forth. You are giving up control of your settings to the electric company that will claim it is trying to stave off brown outs by conserving electricity. Same thing in winter if you have electric heat. Pretty negative stuff like that.
^ how can a meter control appliances like that? From a power perspective, it's either on or off as far as the appliance is concerned. Like a boiler or AC controlled at the thermostat. I don't get this turned down stuff. I understand being completely off due to a forced outage.
^ how can a meter control appliances like that? From a power perspective, it's either on or off as far as the appliance is concerned. I don't get this turned down stuff. I understand being completely off due to a forced outage.
The electric utilities here have a program which can remotely shut off your air conditioner remotely, for short periods of time, during times of peak usage.
A lot of states have mandated Smart Meters legislatively. Here, you can opt out but have a monthly surcharge ($50, I think) to have your meter read manually.
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