Here in Kansas City they have these smart meters and people are pulling them out of there homes as during the very hot weather that we had the meters cut off the air for up to three to eight hours . This was when we had teps . of 100 if. and this was outside not in the homes . The electric company did not fully explain what would happen during a heavy draw on the system. Everyone thought it would be great to get a new one ,but at what cost and effects would come of this have would on the people who had them put in their homes. Terrie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:26 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Talking electric meter?
> Hi All, > > Just to add to this thread... > > Toronto Hydro and Ontario Power Generation, the two electric companies > here in Toronto, Ontario, are introducing, what they call smart meters > into residential and commercial homes and apartments. > > These are supposedly smart in that they are hardwired into their telephone > line, and call into the electric company several times per day to give the > meter reading. This, in turn, allows for the home owner to save tons of > money because, up until now, some people were taking the governments and > electric company's advice and doing high wattage activities, such as > dishwashing and laundry at night, but unless that person called in their > meter reading before and after those chores, they couldn't take advantage > of the lower electricity rates in the middle of the night or at off-peak > hours. They are now introducing these meters to make up for this issue, > and giving people more incentive to reduce power consumption. > > I guess this is as close as we can expect to get in the near future to > talking meters. > > Victor Gouveia > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
