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Originally Posted by Ryland
When my power company switched to smart meters my rates dropped, the pay back on smart meters should be pretty quick while building a new power plant takes 25 to 50 years to pay for while smart meters should pay for them selves in less then a year and keep saving money and energy after that.
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This will not happen for everyone. Many customers in Texas and California have complained that their bills actually increased due to smart meter installation. No news article I have read mentioned anything about rate decreases, either. It was all about "oooh, you can now monitor near-real time data from your web browser!"
Which brings me back to my other point: If monitoring electric usage is so important, why not simply incur a one-time cost of $75 or so to buy one's own monitor, rather than pay $200 or so over 4 years? Why must people like me have to put up with having something installed we neither need nor want, in order to make others feel happy? I do just fine monitoring my own electric usage.