I saw them on TV. They are the very definition of fools. They contracted for electricity and implicit in that contract is the right for the power company to come read the meter.
That contract also allows the power company alone to determine what shall be done to the meter, including replacing it with a radio that transmits a digital read out of the metered numbers.
The hoopla over smart meters is pretty much ignorance extrapolated beyond the limits of reason. If absolute privacy is demanded then it must suffer the consequence of doing so in the cold and dark.
No it is not. There was never implicit in the contract that the power company could monitor your use and regulate how much you use. The contract was for you to pay for what you use. Smart meters do more than simply allow the power company to read the meter remotely. Thats a good thing and supposedly saves money and time. [Tho there is never a request for a rate decrease because of all the money saved.]
You need to read a bit more about these things. Yes they CAN cut off your power when it suits them and these new ones can do more...
I do not know Napierville and whether the electricity comes from the municipality. But I do know that here we had to opt in to have the meters installed and they could shut off our air conditioning when they felt the need. I am going to see if I can opt out....we’ll see how that goes.