[GPSCC-chat] Smart Meters revisited

[Wes Rolley]

I was never one who had a paranoid fear of smart meters.  For me, they 
are now the key to being able to manage my electric costs. For example, 
since PG&E now has over a year of interval data on my electric use, 
their tools were able to calculate the savings I will get in switching 
to Time of Use (E6) rates.  Much of my heavy use (baking, firing 
pottery, running the fan on the furnace, etc.) comes at off peak times 
and we rarely use A/C.

Now, as we are choosing a rooftop solar vendor, that becomes even more 
important.  We will be generating the peak amount of electricity at the 
highest rate times and having to purchase electricity at nights, when 
the rates are significantly lower.



-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, 
then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/
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