You are correct. All these meters do is allow the utility company to read your meter without coming onto your property. If the power company wants to turn off your power they can do it with the old meter.
Or they can stand at the street at the power pole and disconnect it there by unhooking the trandsformer fuse. I want someone to answer this for me. I have a pretty good residentail and indsutrial electrical training. How can you put an automatic 200 amp remote controlled switch in a power meter? I don't think space allows for it and your really talking some money if it could be done.
They cut power off the same way they always have. Come out to the house, pull the meter out and do one of two things. Either put plastic clips on the meter blades where they do not make contact OR take the meter and leave a glass cover in it's place.
“You are correct. All these meters do is allow the utility company to read your meter without coming onto your property.”
They also can and do dunn you with warnings that you are using more energy in the last three months than you used a year ago at this time. I know it for a fact because l have received several letters from PG&E stating that fact. Because of a back operation l was at home recuperating instead of doing the normal stuff l did before.