ME-Lawsuit alleges "smart meters" overcharged electric customers

[Anti Federalist]

Weather sensors?? I think you’re misunderstanding how these things work. At least in the US, I’m not familiar with any weather sensors on the meter. Some utilities may use RTP pricing but that is not dictated by the meter. That is the rate and input from the generation suppliers. And that’s driven off peak load which is impacted by weather, but not sensors in the meters. I’m on my phone and can’t type up an explanation, but damn there’s a lot of confusion over what smart meters do.

OK, I deferring to your knowledge in this area.

You said "meteorology and comm modules".

To me that can only mean one of two things:

1 - A comm module communicating with an offsite server that feeds weather data, the whole point that the grid is "smart", sensing and responding to loads based on demand, driven by many factors, including current weather.

2 - A local sensor feeding back data, to accomplish the same goal.

Now, there is no question that there is real time remote access to these things.

Explain how it would be impossible to manipulate the meter to read significantly higher than what the actual usage was.

 

[CaptUSA]

OK, I deferring to your knowledge in this area.

You said "meteorology and comm modules".

To me that can only mean one of two things:

1 - A comm module communicating with an offsite server that feeds weather data, the whole point that the grid is "smart", sensing and responding to loads based on demand, driven by many factors, including current weather.

2 - A local sensor feeding back data, to accomplish the same goal.

Now, there is no question that there is real time remote access to these things.

Explain how it would be impossible to manipulate the meter to read significantly higher than what the actual usage was.

Sorry. I’m on my phone, but I meant metrology, not meteorology.

Metrology = the mechanism that measures the flow of electricity, gas or water.
Comms module = the mechanism that sends those measurement over a communications network.

The metrology is held to very strict ANSI standard of measurements. The comms module has nothing to do with the measurements except to pass them through. The comms module doesn’t even “read” the measurements much less have the ability to alter them.

 

[shakey1]

People all over the world don’t want “Smart” Meters.

... and yet they are forced upon us.