what’s the rationale for people wanting to opt out and have someone come into their home instead? They think it could send more than basic units-used information?
They think it could send more than basic units-used information?
Yes. It’s going to be used to ‘turn off’ your power (by the company) whenever they want. Purported during high demand times (summer), they’ll spread the ‘pain’ of turning the power off across a wide swatch of people, and rotate it so no one person/neighborhood is turned off for an extended period of time.
However, it essentially means you have ceded control of your electric decisions to someone else; so you CAN’T keep the house at 72 year round, even if you WANTED to.
It’s like having a contract with Comcast or Time Warner (or DirecTv, Dish, etc) and they decided what time the TV will work, and what channels you’ll watch, in my opinion.