Smart meters for whom? Smart meters (toll booths) are just another way for electric utility companies to increase their revenue and stop customer-owned solar power distributed generation. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Adams To: RE-wrenches Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Smart Utility meters
William, We have run into issues with smart meters. We had a customer in one of the pilot neighborhoods. What we saw was the meter registered his production as consumption. Effectively doubling his consumption per the meter. After some research it was determined that while the new smart meters were indeed net metering capable the software back at the reporting station was not net metering capable. Solution was to install an old dumb meter which was bi_directionally accurate. I hope this helps. Cheers Carl Sunrock Solar LLC On Mar 5, 2011 6:47 PM, "William Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends: > > Our local utility (PG&E) is installing smart meters. These will not apply > to interconnected customers because the meter apparently is not capable of > two way metering. > > There has been a lot of controversy about smart meters regarding safety, > accuracy and many other issues. Do any of you have any evidence that smart > meters are a problem in any regard? > > Thanks, > > William > > > Please note new e-mail address and domain: > > William Miller > Miller Solar > Voice :805-438-5600 > email: [email protected] > http://millersolar.com > License No. C-10-773985 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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