Seventy Pepco Customers Say No to Smart Meters
Pepco said customers opting out won't get a smart meter installed, and those who already have one installed, can get their old meter back.
As of Monday morning, 70 Pepco customers have submitted written requests to opt out of their smart meters, according to Myra Oppel, Pepco spokesperson. "If they already had their meters installed, we will go and switch out that meter," Oppel said, explaining that Pepco will put back in a traditional manual-read meter. Pepco will defer the installation of a smart meter once a written request is made to the company to keep the existing meter, according to Oppel. In addition to the 70 requests, Pepco has received phone calls about the smart meters, according to Oppel, who did not have the number of calls at press time. Pepco's actions are temporary, pending a final decision on opt-outs by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC). On May …
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George Karadimas
1:33 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
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