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Illinois Electricity Customers Forced to Get ‘Smart Meters’ or Pay Fine – An individual mandate for electricity meters.

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weeklystandard.com / 8:21 AM, Feb 13, 2014 • By MICHAEL WARREN

In the early days of the Obama administration, “smart power” was all the rage—and not just on the foreign policy scene. In April 2009, National Public Radio reported how one Allentown, Pennsylvania, mother was saving more than a hundred dollars each month on her electric bill. Tammy Yeakel’s power company, PPL Energy, had helpfully installed a “smart meter” on her home that could monitor her power usage in real time. The meter uploaded that information to PPL’s website, so she could identify peak usage times during the day.

The Obama administration wanted in on the action, too. From NPR:

“President Obama wants to use stimulus money to help install 40 million smart meters nationwide to help Americans save electricity and money. Smart meters can track energy use daily, hourly, monthly and even instantaneously, and send that data to power companies. The advanced meters can save companies money, because they no longer need meter readers, and they can fix outages more efficiently.”

Even with the purported opportunities to save, not everyone was pleased with the meters, especially since this new “smart grid” seemed to be getting things wrong. The New York Times reported in December 2009 that many customers in California were in “open revolt” over the nearly 4 million new meters already installed by the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric because they claimed the meters were running too fast and charging them for energy they hadn’t used.

But those happy days when people had the choice to be “smarter” (brought to you by your public utility company and friendly federal government) are apparently over in Illinois. A state law passed in 2011 now requires homes and businesses have the smart meters installed. And per a decision by state regulators last week, those who refuse the meters will now see an extra charge on their monthly electric bill.

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Smart Meter in Your Home?

So if you are given the option, you may want to consider keeping your old meter and saying no to a new smart meter.

Whatever type of meter you have on your property, be aware that they all emit low-frequency radiation – which is also bad for you.

But low frequency radiation from an electricity meter penetrates only a short distance, perhaps 2 metres (6 or 7 feet). Further away than that it is generally too small to measure.

Radio frequency radiation travels much further – which is why they use it for radio! But EMF from a smart meter may be safe if the meter is more than 90 feet away. The signal is relatively weak at that distance.

If you find yourself with no option but to accept a smart meter, you may be able to screen it off from your house with a metal sheet or film (preferably grounded) inserted between the smart meter and the outside wall. This will reduce the amount of radiation inside your house.

Do not rely on the wall of your house to protect you. Some RF radiation penetrates walls (even brick or concrete ones), though the intensity of the wave would be much reduced.

Finally, you may find it difficult to monitor your EMF exposure from a smart meter using a regular radio-frequency EMF meter because the transmissions are too brief.

Proof Smart Meters Are Being Used to Spy On Us

Written by Andrew Puhanic

IF you have ever wondered if your smart meter is being used to spy on you, well now there is proof that governments and private organisations are using data collected from smart meters to spy on you.Information about power usage, which can be used to identify when a home is being occupied, is being shared with third parties of which includes government agencies, private organisations and off-shore data processing centres.This unethical breach of privacy was discovered on the website of one of Australia’s largest electricity retailer, Origin Energy.Electricity customers, who sign up for an online service that provides the account holder with detailed information about their electricity usage, are unwillingly agreeing to share their private information with third parties. smart meter1

A 496 word Privacy/Consent policy form explicitly states that customers who wish to sign up for the service that provides them with information about their electricity usage, must agree that the following organisations have access to their private data

Government authorities
Electricity installers
Mail houses
Data processing analysts
IT service providers
Smart energy technology providers
Debt collection agencies
Credit reporting agencies

A spokesperson for the electricity company (Origin Energy) responsible for this revelation was recently quoted as saying “the additional information requested about each household adds to the richness of the Origin Smart experience” (Source: The Age).

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