Posted on 03/25/2010 2:50:00 PM PDT by Cindy
"FCC’s Broadband Plan Sets Groundwork for National Smart Grid To Transition To More Green Energy Use: Electric Cars, Solar Panels"
SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – The National Broadband Plan, recently published by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), would lay the groundwork for the federal government to establish a nationwide “smart” electrical grid that would change how Americans use and pay for electricity, affecting such things as homes and transportation with battery-powered cars.
The proposal, published March 16, outlines the federal government’s plan to use the nation’s broadband Internet infrastructure to further key national policy goals, including health care, education, and energy.
The intersection of federal energy policy and myriad private sector broadband and wireless Internet networks, which the government hopes to harness, is known as the smart grid, a high-tech linking of the country’s Byzantine electrical infrastructure centered around green energy production and Internet connectivity."
SNIPPET: "The key to this new system is the broadband-connected smart meter, which the FCC envisions will let utilities and the government monitor energy usage in real-time, and give consumers the ability to better manage their energy consumption.
“Smart meters, which are located at customers’ homes and provide two-way communications with their utility, will play a major role in the Smart Grid,” the plan states.
Their primary role will be in allowing consumers to better regulate their energy usage, with a catch, however. That catch, the plan says, is a change in how utilities charge customers for energy.
Rather than the normal flat-rate system, the plan says that utilities will need to move to a dynamic rating system where the price of electricity would spike during times of high demand, such as evening or hot days, forcing consumers to cut their usage to avoid the high prices."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
ON THE INTERNET:
download.broadband.gov/plan/national-broadband-plan-chapter-12-energy-and-environment.pdf
These smart meters are being used in some places here in TX and are causing electric bills to triple. In fact, things are so bad with them that the State is getting involved to evaluate the smart meters. From everything that I’ve heard, nobody using the smart meters likes them.
ON THE INTERNET:
A look at Smart Meters and the UK:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249296/posts
A Look at Smart Grids:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/smartgrid/index
Is this really true, or is the real goal to allow the govt, via the utility company, to control our energy use?
Yes, I haven’t read anything yet suggesting the energy consumer likes the idea of “smart meters.”
Seems like the FCC is in charge of everything these days... when they ought to be closing up shop.
Bookmarking.
Couldn’t be another Obama plan to take over the rest of the economy, no.
You don’t need broadband to have a smart grid. Meters send information once a month, and demand monitoring and control is very low bandwidth. Smart grid does require access to the internet but it’s extremely low bandwidth.
But the whole broadband thing is so screwed up this is the least of it.
FROM THE ARTICLE: “Smart meters, which are located at customers’ homes and provide two-way communications with their utility,
SO, the answer is YES.
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Live from Stanford: Secretary Chu on the Global Clean Energy Challenge
WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | March 08, 2010 at 01:45 PM EST | Posted by Secretary Steven Chu
Posted on March 8, 2010 11:27:43 PM PST by Cindy
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/08/live-stanford-s-sustainability-summit
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Live from Stanford: Secretary Chu on the Global Clean Energy Challenge
Posted by Secretary Steven Chu on March 08, 2010 at 01:45 PM EST What are the steps we must take as a nation to create new, clean energy jobs and ensure America’s long-term competitiveness? What are the consequences for our climate of inaction? How can science and technology offer us new and better choices – and how can America’s young people make a difference?
Today, I’m returning to Stanford University, where I spent many years as a professor, to discuss these and many other issues with a great group of students. I’d like to invite you to watch my speech live here at 3:00PM Eastern time/noon Pacific, and then share your thoughts afterward on my personal Facebook page to continue the conversation.
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“Tell Me Again-—Why Is He at Princeton?”
Manhattan Institute ^ | March 18, 2010 | Charlotte Allen
Posted on March 21, 2010 2:52:47 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
How the hell one can verify utility theft of overcharging???
“Seems like the FCC is in charge of everything these days... when they ought to be closing up shop.”
I can’t help but wonder by what authority? I wonder when they will form FCC SWAT teams?
By what authority did congress pass Obamacare via “reconciliation”?
we have had remote reading on our Electric Meters for several years now. This is done by a signal trans mitted over the power wires. This broad-band trick is another feeature of our living in the Obama Nation. I am a member of an Electric co-op and perhaps we can avoid being forced into this. I vote NO!!
barbra ann
So now they want control of my heat, cooling, and transportation. What a wonderful, thing our government and technology, working together to make slaves of us all.
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