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Put in a "smart meter" and guaranteed your electricity bill will go up. Not that you are using more electricity, but that this device will say you are, and you have no recourse. As far as anyone can tell these meters have NEVER found a home using less energy.
Statistically, that is impossible, unless the meters themselves are a fraud.
Maybe worse, your tax dollars and your personal dollars are being used to steal your money.
"The latest evidence of a backlash comes from Maryland. Last month, the states public service commission rejected an $835 million smart-meter installation plan put forward by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, or BGE. The commissions order professed enthusiasm for the long-run potential of smart meters, but said BGE was asking ratepayers to take significant financial and technological risks and adapt to categorical changes in rate design, all in exchange for savings that are largely indirect, highly contingent and a long way off.
Consumer groups were relieved by the decision. We don’t reject the technology, says Tiffany Lundquist, a spokeswoman for AARP Maryland, which testified against the plan. Apart from $136 million of federal stimulus money, BGE proposed to have ratepayers fund the installations using a smart grid charge on customers bills. The entire cost shouldn’t be borne by the consumer, Lundquist says There has to be a balance between the customer and the utility itself.
This is another reason to get off the grid and use solar panels, not an openly corrupt cabal of government and a government monopoly for energy.
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Statistically, that is impossible, unless the meters themselves are a fraud.
Maybe worse, your tax dollars and your personal dollars are being used to steal your money.
"The latest evidence of a backlash comes from Maryland. Last month, the states public service commission rejected an $835 million smart-meter installation plan put forward by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, or BGE. The commissions order professed enthusiasm for the long-run potential of smart meters, but said BGE was asking ratepayers to take significant financial and technological risks and adapt to categorical changes in rate design, all in exchange for savings that are largely indirect, highly contingent and a long way off.
Consumer groups were relieved by the decision. We don’t reject the technology, says Tiffany Lundquist, a spokeswoman for AARP Maryland, which testified against the plan. Apart from $136 million of federal stimulus money, BGE proposed to have ratepayers fund the installations using a smart grid charge on customers bills. The entire cost shouldn’t be borne by the consumer, Lundquist says There has to be a balance between the customer and the utility itself.
This is another reason to get off the grid and use solar panels, not an openly corrupt cabal of government and a government monopoly for energy.
More...