‘Smart’ Meter Spying Finally
Admitted
May
302014
Of course they
didn’t quite put it that bluntly. In fact, they celebrate the ability of
utilities to know what appliances people use as another tool to help craft the
wonderful world of the future.
Below is my
letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission pointing out that industry has
finally come out and admitted what I and others have been saying for years.
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The
SmartGridNews article, entitled “Now utilities can tell customers how much
energy each appliance uses (just from the smart meter data),” is here.
May 15, 2014Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)
Docket Control Center
1200 West Washington Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Re: Docket # E-01345A-14-0113
Ladies and Gentlemen;
Here is breaking news. SmartGridNews has just come out of the closet and admitted what I and others have been saying all long: “Smart” meters are surveillance devices.
APS and utilities nationwide have been denying the surveillance capability of “smart” meters but here is one of the foremost “smart” meter cheerleaders in the world finally admitting the truth.
SmartGridNews calls such “smart” grid industry names as Telvent, Silver Spring Networks and Lockheed Martin its “major sponsors”. So of course the news story attempts to put a positive spin on the surveillance, hyping such nonsense as an “over 4% conservation [of energy] after just a few months”.
Wow, that means I might save four whole dollars and change on a one hundred dollar electrical bill. Where do I sign up to be spied on?
Enclosed is the SmartGridNews article, Now utilities can tell customers how much energy each appliance uses (just from the smart meter data).
Sincerely,
Warren Woodward
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