01-15-2023, 10:27 PM
Its funny how they make this sound like you will be benefiting from one of these meters. Where they can, shut your power off remotely, charge you extra for peak time use or whatever other excuse to charge you extra.
This is how people ended up with 3,000 dollar power bills in Texas during that one rare outage a couple years ago. Smart meters were able to report every precious watt people used and charge them according to whatever exchange rates at that instant were. If helco bases their rates on the variable price of diesel, could get spicy.
If offers the utilities endless options for profit and control.
Oh well, times they are a changing.
This is how people ended up with 3,000 dollar power bills in Texas during that one rare outage a couple years ago. Smart meters were able to report every precious watt people used and charge them according to whatever exchange rates at that instant were. If helco bases their rates on the variable price of diesel, could get spicy.
If offers the utilities endless options for profit and control.
Oh well, times they are a changing.