[Boatanchors] "Smart" Electric Meters

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 12:52 PM 5/9/2008, Jim Wilhite wrote:
>I have one on my house and there is no resulting RFI from it.  The 
>meter is read remotely from the headquarters
>I don't know why any power company would want to raise rates just 
>for that, they continue buying the meters anyway, just order the 
>different model.  Maybe they have big plans for you to fund some 
>increase in salaries of the managers.

The biggest factor for remote metering is job elimination.  Read that 
as METER READER.
Not only the personnel, but also the extra vehicle required to 
transport the reader,
fuel, maintenance, etc.  (might want to include "animal control" spray) :-)

Perry  w8au