New legislation allows electric companies to CONTROL your smart THERMOSTAT

 It’s the hottest day of the year, the kind where the air feels thick enough to chew, and your home is your last refuge from the scorching sun. You reach for the thermostat, desperate for relief — only to find it locked. A cold, digital message glares back at you: "Energy Emergency. Adjustments Not Allowed." This is happening right now in Colorado, Texas, and — if Ohio’s latest bill passes — soon in your state too. The question isn’t if utility companies will seize control of your home’s climate, but when. And once they do, what’s next? Your fridge? Your lights? Your ability to cook dinner? Welcome to the brave new world of energy rationing, where corporate and government collusion doesn’t just spy on you — it dictates how you live, all under the guise of "saving the grid."

The practicality of this boils down to governments needing to prioritize AI energy consumption needs for "national security" reasons. Future governments could force you to ration electricity because of "climate change." In the end, this isn’t about reliability or affordability. It’s about control. The same elites pushing the Great Reset, digital IDs, and central bank currencies are now testing how far they can stretch their fingers into your home. And if history is any indicator, what starts as "voluntary" today becomes mandatory tomorrow — with penalties for those who resist. The energy crisis is a manufactured one, a trojan horse for a future where your comfort, your choices, and even your survival are held hostage by unelected bureaucrats and their corporate overlords....<<<Read More>>>....

Sacramento utility provider under fire for using SMART METERS as surveillance tools

 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), accusing the public utility of conducting an unconstitutional mass surveillance program that has targeted tens of thousands of households over the past decade.

The lawsuit, which seeks to dismantle this invasive practice, highlights how SMUD's "smart meters" have been covertly transformed into tools of surveillance. This illegal surveillance disproportionately affected Asian American communities and violated the privacy rights of countless residents.

For over 10 years, SMUD has been sifting through the energy usage data of its 650,000 customers, flagging over 33,000 households as "suspicious" based on their electricity consumption. These tips, often generated without individualized suspicion or judicial oversight, have been routinely passed on to local law enforcement agencies.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), accusing the public utility of conducting an unconstitutional mass surveillance program that has targeted tens of thousands of households over the past decade.

The lawsuit, which seeks to dismantle this invasive practice, highlights how SMUD's "smart meters" have been covertly transformed into tools of surveillance. This illegal surveillance disproportionately affected Asian American communities and violated the privacy rights of countless residents.

For over 10 years, SMUD has been sifting through the energy usage data of its 650,000 customers, flagging over 33,000 households as "suspicious" based on their electricity consumption. These tips, often generated without individualized suspicion or judicial oversight, have been routinely passed on to local law enforcement agencies.

The EFF's legal filing reveals that SMUD analysts have sent detailed reports – including names, addresses and usage histories – to police departments. This effectively turns the utility into an arm of law enforcement....<<<Read More>>>....

Water Companies Use Smart Meters to Impose Surge Pricing During Heatwaves

 Britain is a very wet island. Any ‘drought’ or water shortage is due to mismanagement and a failure to plan, not due to a lack of water. Rationing and surge pricing of water just shows that the water companies – and the government – are not doing their jobs properly.

Water companies will use smart meters to increase prices in the summer, meaning customers will pay more during heatwaves. The Telegraph has more.

Surge pricing trials are being introduced for customers with smart water meters at 15 companies across the country.

Under the pilot schemes, water costs either change depending on the time of year or become more expensive as customers use more.

Ofwat, the industry regulator, said that the trials, planned for the next five years, would increase prices “when water is scarce” and could potentially be extended to all customers.

The Government is backing a nationwide rollout of smart water meters in an attempt to reduce water consumption, which ministers believe could help prevent hosepipe bans and other water rationing.

Millions in the South East and Yorkshire are facing hosepipe bans this month after heatwaves left vast areas of Britain in drought, with temperatures of up to 32°C expected over the weekend.

During hot weather, households use up to double the amount of water, which risks higher charges under surge pricing.

The average household of four consumes 438 litres of water per day, according to Southern Water.

Seasonal tariffs, such as a scheme planned by Anglian Water, will encourage customers to “reduce discretionary water usage” during the summer months.

The company previously said smart water meters could make it “feasible” to introduce “separate additional fees for sprinkler users, hosepipe users, outside tap users, swimming pools”.

Notice how smart meters only ever make the price go up....<<<Read More>>>...

More than 350,000 smart meters switched remotely to more expensive tariffs

 Hundreds of thousands of homes with smart meters have been remotely switched to more expensive prepayment plans in the past six years.

Over 350,000 smart meters were remotely switched to repay debt between 2017 and 2023, The Telegraph can reveal.

It comes as Ofgem, the energy regulator, is set to bring in new rules setting a “minimum standard” that limits when firms can forcibly change a customer’s tariff. Campaigners are also calling on the Government to outlaw the practice altogether.

The number of remote switches rose fivefold in the five years to 2021, but dropped 61pc in 2022 to 58,977 from over 152,000 the year before, according to official figures, as the Government stepped in to shield consumers from surging costs by raising the energy price cap and introducing the Energy Price Guarantee.

Britain’s smart meter rollout has been billed as a cost-saver for households by its supporters, but has saddled billpayers with three million “dumb” devices that can no longer submit automatic readings to suppliers.

Energy providers have faced criticism for using smart meters to remotely force indebted customers onto more costly prepayment meters without a warrant, which is required to enter a home and manually install one....<<<Read More>>>...

Rishi Sunak is urged to get tough on China by ripping out hundreds of thousands of smart meters which could allegedly be used to shut down the UK’s power supplies

 Rishi Sunak is facing calls to get tougher with China by potentially ripping out hundreds of thousands of ‘Chinese smart meters’ which could be allegedly used to shut down UK power supplies.

On the eve of the G20 summit in Indonesia, the Prime Minister was urged to remind fellow world leaders of the ‘enormous threat’ posed by Beijing’s desire to infiltrate other countries’ infrastructure.

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that although the gathering would rightly focus on Ukraine’s struggle, Mr Sunak should not miss the chance to warn allies of the dangers China poses.

And Sir Iain called on the PM to take immediate action at home by halting the installation in UK houses of smart meters made by a firm linked to the Chinese state.

He raised the ‘nightmare’ prospect of the Chinese state shutting down power to hundreds of thousands of households through access to the meter’s remote power switch.

Sir Iain, one of five British MPs singled out for sanctions by Beijing last year, told The Mail on Sunday that the PM should first halt the installation of the meters, made by Kaifa Technology UK, and then potentially replace the ones already installed. He said ‘all smart meters feature a switch that can be used to remotely turn off power’, which in the wrong hands ‘could be abused to inflict mass blackouts and damage the National Grid’.

His call came after the Daily Mail revealed last month that 250,000 meters supplied by Kaifa, controlled by a subsidiary of the state-owned China Electronics Corporation, were already in UK homes.

But experts predict there could be more than three million by the end of the smart meter rollout.

Last month, Michael Wu, head of Kaifa UK, rejected claims that it was seeking to gain credibility in the UK meter market by selling its meters at low prices before hiking them afterwards.

A Government source responded to Sir Iain’s warnings by acknowledging China ‘poses a systemic challenge to our security, prosperity and values’. They added that the PM was committed to updating the 2021 Integrated Review which laid out the threat China posed to the UK’s economic security...<<<Read More>>>...

Smart Meters — The Household Device That Spies on You 24/7

 The data from smart meters reveal far more than you might think — and could even be used against you to control your individual energy use or, one day, to help ensure “net zero” compliance.

Many people have embraced the convenience of wireless devices in their homes, but these devices come at a price — your privacy and your health.

With each smart device that you welcome to your home — such as connected alarm clocks, vehicles, refrigerators and doorbells — another layer of your personal life is revealed and your health is sabotaged by EMFs.

This is certainly true of smart meters, which are officially known in the U.S. as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) installations. In 2020, 102.9 million such smart meters were installed by U.S. electric utilities, about 88% of them in personal residences.

AMI meters measure and record electricity usage at least every hour, if not more, and provide the data to the utility company and consumer at least once a day.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “AMI installations range from basic hourly interval meters to real-time meters with built-in two-way communication that is capable of recording and transmitting instantaneous data.”

What could be wrong with transmitting every last detail about your real-time energy usage to an energy company? Those data reveal far more than you might think — and could even be used against you to control your individual energy use or, one day, to help ensure “net zero” compliance...<<<Read More>>>...

Family in Norfolk with disabled child have electricity cut off for refusing a smart meter

 The story starts in 2020 when Stephanie Lund, who cares for her disabled daughter and elderly parents, started to develop headaches.  She then discovered a smart meter had been fitted in her home without her knowledge. Researching electro-sensitivity, she found information about the potential harmful effects of smart meters.  Ms Lund doesn’t have a mobile phone or any wifi internet in her home for these reasons

She contacted her electricity supplier Utility Warehouse (UW) in May 2020 and told them that the smart meter wasn’t safe and she wanted it removed.  She asked if it could be put on a ‘dumb’ mode, with no active wi-fi but was refused.  UW refused to replace the meter or come to test the radiation levels, saying it was safe by ‘EU’ standards.

Fast forward to April 2022, and frustrated with her headaches worsening due to the smart meter, and with the failure in the duty of care of UW for her and her families health, she contacted a qualified electrician and had the smart meter replaced with an industry approved digital meter.

In June 2022 she had an un-announced visit from Revenue Protection Services, saying they were there on behalf of UW, saying there had been a problem with the connection to the smart meter.  The electricity bill had been paid throughout this time.  Ms Lund refused him entry into the home as it was an un-accounced visit and she wasn’t able to identify him.  He left her with a letter, saying they may return with a warrant to access the property to check on their property (ie the smart meter).  She handed him the smart meter back.

Without any further correspondence on 27th July 2022 at 2.14pm a man from Revenue Protection Services returned to her property with another man.  The man wouldn’t give his name or identify himself, so he was refused access.  The men claimed they had a digital warrant, which Ms Lund thought ‘had been made up on a computer’.  She asked if it had been signed by a judge, in requirement of a warrant, and the men refused to answer.

The man then gave an ultimatum that they can fit another meter, cut the electricity off or call the police.  Ms Lund, alarmed by this bizarre turn of events called the police herself....<<<Read More>>>...

AI Used to Tap Massive Amounts of Smart Meter Data

 [David Icke]: The “Smart Electricity Meters – Global Market Trajectory & Analytics” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

Global Smart Electricity Meters Market to Reach $15.2 Billion by 2026

The global market for Smart Electricity Meters estimated at US$10.5 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$15.2 Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% over the analysis period.

For utilities aiming to modernize their grid operations with advanced solutions, smart electricity meters have emerged as an effective tool that can flawlessly address their various energy T&D needs in a simple and flexible manner.

Single-Phase, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record 6.2% CAGR and reach US$11.9 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After a thorough analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Three-Phase segment is readjusted to a revised 7.9% CAGR for the next 7-year period.

In the coming years, the growth of smart electricity meters market will be driven by the increasing need for products and services that enable energy conservation; government initiatives to install smart electric meters in order to address issues of energy requirement; the ability of smart electric meters to prevent energy losses due to theft and fraud, and to reduce the costs involved in manual data collection; increasing investments in smart grid establishments; the growing trend of integration of renewable sources to existing power generation grids; rising T&D upgrade initiatives especially in developed economies; increasing investments into construction of commercial establishments such as educational institutions and banking institutions in both developing and developed economies; and emerging growth opportunities in Europe with the ongoing rollouts of smart electricity meter rollouts in countries such as Germany, the UK, France, and Spain.

Three-Phase Smart Meters to Reach $4.1 Billion by 2026

Global market for Three-Phase Smart Meters is estimated at US$2.7 Billion in 2020, and is projected to reach US$4.1 Billion by 2026 reflecting a compounded annual growth rate of 7.9% over the analysis period.

China constitutes the largest regional market for Three-Phase segment, accounting for 36.0% of the global sales in 2020. China is poised to register the fastest compounded annual growth rate of 9.1% over the analysis period, to reach US$1.8 Billion by the close of the analysis period.