Personally I like the monitoring aspect of “smart grid” technology - I’m able to see a real time use of electricity, and I don’t think I really care if someone sees my utility usage.
I do not want on the other hand, control or any restriction on my usage if I have the money to pay for it.
“I do not want on the other hand, control or any restriction on my usage if I have the money to pay for it”.
One of many reasons for smart grid tech. For our local coop, the ability to randomly shut customers down during high usage and thus high cost times should generate savings by shifting usage to low cost time of day versus high usage during high cost hours.
OTOH, if there was not a “war on coal” and other EPA stupidity, we wouldn’t have to worry about peak hours of usage for a while.
“Personally I like the monitoring aspect of “smart grid” technology - I’m able to see a real time use of electricity, and I don’t think I really care if someone sees my utility usage.”
You’ll care when you find out your house was broken into during a vacation, because your ‘smart-meter’ ratted you out to a utility employee who told his not-so-honest buddy.