Video: Georgia Power customers concerned over new “smart meter”

June 13, 2011 | Filed under: Videos | Posted by: Gamut News Staff

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  • Anonymous

    MISREPRESENTATIONS OF WIRELESS SMART METERS.

    The utility information generated by Wireless smart meters is NOT real-time and it is NOT formatted for customer use so it does NOT assist customers to use less energy or lower their utility bills. The information only assists the Utility Company to bill customers and shut off customer power remotely.

    In countries where Wireless smart meters are being installed, energy use is NOT decreasing, customer UTILITY BILLS ARE INCREASING, there are problems with SECURITY, HACKING, ELECTRICAL FIRES & ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE.

    The Utility companies are salivating over eliminating the jobs of the full-time-with-benefit meter reader employees and replacing them with phone operators in India and the Philippines who read scripts to customers over the phone for $4 per day with NO Benefits.

    Wireless smart meters are NOT mandated by the US Federal Energy Program, as California’s PG$E pretends.

    42 Cities & Counties in California have taken positions AGAINST Wireless smart meters and 13 have passed Ordinances prohibiting the Wireless meters.

  • bluplanet

    Smart-AMR (automatic meter reading) meters are making people sick all across the U.S.
    The meters transmit intolerable pulses of radiation throughout homes and outdoors, thousands of times a day, 24/7.
    Manufacturers who are making these dangerous meters are Itron, Echelon, Elster, GE, Landis+Gyr and Sensus.
    Utility companies and manufacturers are lying when they state that the meters are a “green” product. Smart-AMR meters were invented between 20 and 30 years ago. Utility companies did not care about being “green” back then nor do they care now. The meters save the utilities money by eliminating meter readers.
    This is a terrible environmental and health disaster. It is already destroying people’s lives.