” if a person for some insane reason wants to allow the electric company to control their A/C useage in the peak hours of the Summer, but it isn’t in that alleged “Smart Meter”.”
New appliances will be mandated to interface with the Smartmeter. They’ll sell it as a feature.
That actually IS the direction they are headed.
Only if we are unsuccessful eliminating the U.N. ICLEI, and Agenda 21.