Here in Oklahoma, my neighborhood was installed with the SMs yesterday.

Our letter from OG&E in October stated that the installers would be criss-crossing the state. I still have that letter and re-read it after I found this. There is NOTHING in our letter that says you can be placed on a delay program, otherwise I would have called.

Keep fighting. With our extreme winters and summers, I’m nauseous of what our bills will look like. Thank God that our natural gas is from ONG, so the winter bills will be always be low. It’s the summer’s air-conditioning bills that have me worried.

I’m going to keep looking on how to have the analog meter returned.

Good luck, California!

I will post a follow up *if* I hear back from them 😉

So, did these reps threaten to back charge you because the old meter was running slowly ?
Don’t fall for those bogus explenations ! Don’t believe one word that PG&E says ! Most of those reps don’t know anything about anything ! They are just sitting in a room with no windows earning minimum wage and parroting what their obergrotten fuhrers tell them to say.
Did any of these reps tell you that they used to be meter readers, and that they were given another job in the company ?
Chances are, that rep you talked to was in another country !

You are correct, the meters charge the customers for the electricity being used to transmit gibberish 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so the meters can ‘chat’ and keep in sync with other on the mesh network. PG&E and all the other power companies have publicly stated that the meters only transmit packets of usage information once every 4 hours to the utility. And that is all that they will ever transmit, they will never be capable of determining and transmitting what the customer is using the electricity for, even if the customer purchases an ‘in home’ monitoring system and ‘chipped’ appliances. Like advertised, the customer purchased HAN systems are for ‘in home ‘ monitoring only, that ‘in home’ information will never be transmitted to the utility on their radio networks.
It’s funny how some starving freelance journalists write all these articles that are purely science fiction about how the meters are “spy meters”. These journalists are very creative in sensationalizing things to sell a story, but unfortunately have fooled many not so intelligent people into thinking that this a science fact.
The facts are, this SmartMeter program is wasting energy to further bombard all of us with RF radiation for nothing most of the time. It is this useless waste and unnecessary radio transmissions that are the real problem.