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Will your new smart meter hike your electric bill?
http://springfieldvt.blogspot.com/p/why-smart-meters-produce-higher-bills.html
The short answer is yes, since the digital chip captures virtually all the ramp up power of electric motors as they are brought up to speed (refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, pool pumps-etc.) whereas conventional analog meters only capture average energy demands of motors. This becomes a built in billing increase, bypassing the requirement for a utility commission’s rate approval process. Thus, any rate payer with motors on their line will see increases over what they experienced with an analog meter.
Self reporting utility meters are rapidly replacing highly reliable and far safer analog meters in the U.S. and around the world. There are numerous reasons an analog meter is much safer. Number one is that it has a stellar 100 year safety record. An equally important reason that an analog meter is much safer is because it needs to be read by a real person. Meter readers are experienced safety officers. As the eyes and ears of a Utility company, they enter the premise of each customer’s property every month to read a meter, and in the process lay their trained eye on power infrastructure to see in real time if any conditions exist that may be a potential problem for delivery of safe electric service. This human meter reader is no longer required with implementation of smart meters, thus making the new smart grid a really, really stupid grid. We need to keep our existing meters and our “smart” human safety officers/meter readers.
The smart grid may be the most dangerous idea since the invention of electricity and appears to be burdening the public and the environment with undue risk not present in conventional grids.
http://springfieldvt.blogspot.com/p/why-smart-meters-produce-higher-bills.html
The short answer is yes, since the digital chip captures virtually all the ramp up power of electric motors as they are brought up to speed (refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, pool pumps-etc.) whereas conventional analog meters only capture average energy demands of motors. This becomes a built in billing increase, bypassing the requirement for a utility commission’s rate approval process. Thus, any rate payer with motors on their line will see increases over what they experienced with an analog meter.
Self reporting utility meters are rapidly replacing highly reliable and far safer analog meters in the U.S. and around the world. There are numerous reasons an analog meter is much safer. Number one is that it has a stellar 100 year safety record. An equally important reason that an analog meter is much safer is because it needs to be read by a real person. Meter readers are experienced safety officers. As the eyes and ears of a Utility company, they enter the premise of each customer’s property every month to read a meter, and in the process lay their trained eye on power infrastructure to see in real time if any conditions exist that may be a potential problem for delivery of safe electric service. This human meter reader is no longer required with implementation of smart meters, thus making the new smart grid a really, really stupid grid. We need to keep our existing meters and our “smart” human safety officers/meter readers.
The smart grid may be the most dangerous idea since the invention of electricity and appears to be burdening the public and the environment with undue risk not present in conventional grids.