It was very poorly worded communication, probably purposely so. My response: under no circumstances give permission for a smart meter to be installed (had to read between the lines to see what they were after).
That was my #1 beef against installing solar. In that case it wouldn't be a "smart meter" but an extra meter to detect how much power I'd put onto the grid. And with that would come an extra regulation saying I'd have to tell my inverter to shut down if the grid power went down (to keep my solar from harming linemen working on downed power lines). Last but not least there'd be a large monthly fee for the privilege of participating in the solar buy-back program that's pay little back to me.
No thank you. That is...until I realized I could get an inverter with the "no output" option (some solar geeks call it the "zero report" option). For that reason, I now have solar and it provides most of the power we need. But as far as the power company goes I'm not a solar user. I'm just an average Joe customer like everybody else except to them I consume a lot less power even though the reality is I have an all-electric home and charge an EV.
2021 I kept my heat on 68 degrees....2022-2023 I lowered to 66 degrees in my house. I’m paying $78 more per month and living in a colder home. I despise our treasonous scumbags in DC.