Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Was it the sky high measurement inaccuracy or just the surges ?

So much for the grant money from Office Occupier Barry Soetoro.


Attorney General George Jepsen is urging state utility regulators to reject a request by Connecticut Light & Power Co. to replace customers' existing electric meters with a new metering system that could cost the company's rate-payers a half-billion dollars.

CL&P's proposal is too "expensive and would not save enough electricity for its 1.2 million customers to justify the expense," Jepsen said Tuesday.

Woah, does this mean Green corporate fascism isn't on his agenda ?

Replacing the current meters "would force the company's ratepayers to spend at least $500 million on new meters that are likely to provide few benefits in return," Jepsen said. CL&P's proposal includes a request to recover the full cost of installation.

Well, they'd be entitled to surges every time the meter is polled for how much power you used in the last 12 hours. You'd have 902 MHz (or thereabouts) RF near you every time it transmitted, and the privilege of being a beta test guinea pig for those flaws and for the non-existent security that has been linked to here and can be found on GOOGLENSACIA.

DPUC regulators should only approve the installation of new meters when they are cost effective, Jepsen said.

Yes, that deployment means when they won't produce a perpetual parade of damage claims rather than victimizing customers now like NSTAR.

CL&P tested the advanced metering system between June 1, 2009, and Aug. 31, 2009, on 1,251 residential and 1,186 commercial and industrial customers, Jepsen said.

The pilot results, which were reported last February, did not show a beneficial impact on reducing energy use, and the savings were limited to certain types of customers, Jepsen said. The existing meters were installed between 1994 and 2005, and are designed to last about 20 years. Replacing them early would not be cost-effective and would only increase rate-payers' electric bills, he said.

BPL, anyone ? What engineer comes up with this useless stuff to keep his job with the fascists ?

Remember, if you're at a corporation taking government funds, you're in Hitler's Germany... or Cambridge.

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