Got letter from electric company

if you can't afford the monthly fee for the old meter, you can purchase a cover for the smart meter.

that's what people in my area have done.


on a recent thread here a poster said that heavy aluminum foil will work too.

I hate smart anything. They charge you extra because they have to read the meter in person. They can refuse you if you have it in back with a dog etc too.

fuck those smart meters thats just so they can remotely turn you off when you are 1 hour late paying the bill then charge you 75 dollars to have them push a button and turn it back on. they do emit radiation. my buddy has one on his house next to a nice small maple tree, within 1 year all the branches towards the meter were dead after 3 years the entire tree was just bare and dead.

Smart meters are very harmful. If you're in an apt building you need to move I'd think.

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A ton of microwave radiation"??? it's a radio connection not "ionizing radiation".

Service is Cheaper because an attendant doesn't have to walk up and read your meter and write down the numbers.. once every few weeks.

Can they limit your power?

Probably.That is very common in heavy industry to balance loads.

The electric mafia strikes again

why cant meters be at there pole/box where it is distributed.

I don't tryst those meters. They can see which devices are being powered, and shut off your service whenever they want.
My electric company tried the same with me. I had a legal aid clinic send them a letter, ccing the state public utilities commission. It said something like, "fuck you; you have no right to trespass on my property for this purpose; forcing me to accept a smart meter is violating my consumer rights; and I will disconnect service and switch on my solar panels if you proceed."
The electric company didn't bother me again about it.

I also was not comfortable with their cellular transmitter on my property.

I was told by a meter reader because I did not want a smart meter either. He told me the readings of the old meter far outweigh the new meter. The newer one is much more sensitive. So I kept the old analog meter. He said THAT IT WOULD SAVE ME MONEY IN THE LONG RUN to keep the old meter..

After the pos smart meter was installed, our electric bill went way up. If possible, do NOT do it!

Will that prevent the meter from being read by the electric company?

They've replaced both my gas and (just last year) electric meters. I tested both when they were installed with a meter and found neither to be "off the charts" as some say and have no ill effects, though I do believe my "usage" hasn't gone up, their numbers claim it has.

I don't have any "smart" electronics at all (not even a cell phone), so they cannot control anything in my home, all they know now is every time anything is in use... fuckers.

I keep on top of the supplier choices and don't use a lot of electric, so the cost isn't a problem. Paying extra each month to NOT have a "smart" meter would just piss me off every time I paid the bill.

I was toying with trying to get me meter to stop spinning once and saw it spinning backwards! I swear!
Found the only thing still plugged in was the backup battery on a desk top computer, apparently it was feeding back through the lines... I may try something in the future with wind or solar.

The utility will replace the old meter anyway. They do not keep the old ones around as they will not interface with the new system so they told me. They, however, will turn off your meter's "smart" capability and as you say, send out a human to read it.

What is to say they never turn it off or do so only temporarily?

I researched this topic back when I was pushed into one at my residence in 2020. It seems there is some things that can be done to mitigate the EMF. However, most of the EMF you get comes from.....your neighbor's meter because it mostly projects outwards 180*. There is much evidence to support this. So if you're meter is on your garage or behind a brick wall, there is little chance you are subjected to much EMF at all with a much better chance of exposure via a close neighbor. As long as you're not standing with in three feet directly behind it all day, I wouldn't worry about it and I don't.

We paid to have ours removed... everywhere that we have been.

Consider, the comparative cost of $19.95 a month compared to the cost of CANCER TREATMENT.

Bro, they are microwaving us to death it’s all in the plan written in Arabic

No one will do what I say

yeah...you either have to know the day they are driving by, so you can uncover it or you have to take it off for them when they are in your hood to get the reading.

from my understanding the smart readers still have to be read by somebody in some proximity to the meter...it doesn't just send info to the office.

that's what i was told, someone here might know differently.


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Lol okay

I like the smart meter. The power co knows when I loose power due to storms and let’s me know when it comes back on. My tinnitus got better in the house once the new one was installed. Before that, I could hear a constant high pitched scream all the time when in the house.

I have read horror stories about these things ,people with holiday homes say the bills for the old anologue meter with everything turned off would only be a few bucks ,with the new meter reporting back twice a minute with everything turned off the bills were hundreds and the only change was the meter .

As another poster said above time lapse photos show when the meter was changed it kills everything around it ,same with WiFi routers put a house plant near it and it will kill it .

One person online said they bought their own meter and had it installed by a accredited professional as in the UK we have to rent them , he got round this and told them to shove it and won his case .

No way are they putting one near me just look at how many have gone on fire , research that

Now if the head of your child's bed is push up against the wall and directly behind the back of the meter, I'd worry enough to make other arrangements and put up a Faraday barrier either directly behind the meter on the outside and/or on the inside to deflect EMF which is known to cause sleep issues and cancer, even when the frequency is weak in strength or pulse. FACT.

With a smart meter, they can see the power draw of your house, how long it lasts, and at what frequency.

With this information, they can see when your refrigerator turns on, if you have a deep freeze, when you turn on lights, when your water heater goes on and off when you take a hot shower, they know when you’re home, what your routine is, and when you’re not home. When you charge your cell phone or if your router is turned on. They can establish a baseline to your unique power consumption, then come knock on your door when you grossly exceed expectations (like starting a microgreens grow company on your residential property, avoiding business taxes)

All that information will now be in the hands of your power company, to be sold off to multiple third party companies. Then the government can pay those companies to provide the desired information it wants, circumventing any ‘bothersome’ legal mumbo jumbo.

aluminum turkey pan works

My meter channel is on my detached garage 60 ft from my house should be no problem here.

I watched it kill my very healthy hanging strawberry plant right after it was installed. Had them taking it out the next week. Now are new property doesn't have electricity and that's fine. Fuck their dirty electricity.

It's about 80 bucks for a Faraday cage type cover.

It's worse than that: the 'smart' meters RESTRICT the flow of everything to your house: no more a/c, no more heat, no more gaz, no more water. You will only get a mini bit, then have to do without the rest of the month.

REFUSE IT! Do NOT let them access your house.

That's the demon in your basement and the banshee in your attic: they is communicating with each other.

OP: threaten to sue them for the $20 extra bucks. The companies recently got canned for useless extra fees.

He's right plus my power company puts you on a rate plan where it costs way more money to run your stuff during peak hours. My dumb analog meter doesn't know what time anything turns on.