Energy Firm CAUGHT Breaking Down Door to INSTALL Smart Meter!

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51. Here's why time of use charging is justified:

Supply and demand and the cost of generation, and also the environmental impact of that generation.

It's cheaper, for example, for utilities to get you your electrons at night when there's plenty available and they can use cheap and clean sources like wind. Plenty of wind at night.

In the hot afternoon, it's expensive and bad for the environment to have to fire up natural gas peaker plants. Thus, they need to charge.

Just like with finding fruits out of season and paying more at different times of the year, electricity has different costs and impacts throughout the 24 hour day.

Nobody at the utility cares how many people are in your home.

The only think I can imagine being a red flag would be indoor pot growers, and the cops have other ways including IR cameras and even old meter data to figure out that somethings up.

I would support, to be sure, some legislation around privacy of information, but I would not support staying with 19th century metering technology at the expense of the environment.