Pepco Begins Installing New Smart Meters This Month
Pepco will begin switching out its Maryland customers' old analog electricity meters and installing new digital ones this month.
Pepco begins installing new “smart” meters for all of the utility company’s Maryland customers this month. As of yet, there is no timetable for when Pepco will install the new meters in the various communities that it serves, says Pepco spokesperson Andre Francis. The new smart meters are digital replacements of the older analog units, Francis says. And, for right now, the new smart meter will be “just a meter”—there will be no additional benefits that often come with a smart meter, such as reduced electricity rates for off-peak usage to encourage customers to shift some activities requiring electricity (such as using the washing machine) to off-peak hours so as not to overwhelm the region’s power grid. But, “as time rolls on, (we may be…
RobertWilliams
6:27 am on Thursday, June 2, 2011
MISREPRESENTATIONS OF WIRELESS SMART METERS. In the U.S. & UK and other countries where Wireless smart meters are being installed, energy use is NOT decreasing, customer UTILITY BILLS ARE INCREASING, there are additional PROBLEMS & COSTS incurred from increased SECURITY & HACKING PROBLEMS and the Wireless meters are creating ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE PROBLEMS. The utility information generated by … more ›