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NorCal’s SmartMeter Issues Extend Beyond Faulty Bills [Consumer]

by on September 7, 2010

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SMARTMETER Interference

Though Pacific Gas and Electric have quelled the issues that folks thing they’ve been seeing with higher bills after the SmartMeters were installed on their homes, more problems are starting to crop up with homeowners and their SmartMeters.  Now folks are starting to report that the wireless communication process that SmartMeters use to send your electric bill out would seem to be interfering with home electronics.

The problems reported extend across a variety of platforms from baby monitors, wireless instruments and cordless phones.  It also seems the PG&E knoew about like issues back in 2009.  In one case, PG&E stated that the family whose baby monitor was affected, declared that the instrument needed improved shielding from stray frequency transmissions.

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SmartMeters: Watch Your Bill!

by on October 19, 2009

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Here in the Bay Area, PG&E is installing the Smart Meter.  This will allow the utilities company to read your meter from their home base rather than sending folks out to read the meters.

This will probably eliminate a few dog bites here and there, dogs being one of the more predominant issues to a meter reader.  Or so I’ve been told.

But something that folks are noticing…  a few folks that is, is that their bill seems to get unusually higher after the meters have been installed.

This is resulting in PG&E having to spend money on an independent 3rd party to test the new meters to see what’s up.

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