tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5466733313017107142024-03-04T23:37:49.459-06:00Smart Meters Are Not OkSmart Meters Are Not Okhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180489751249187684noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546673331301710714.post-21030070326873249372016-09-23T00:56:00.001-05:002016-09-23T00:56:43.042-05:00PSO and the OCC Don’t Follow Their Own Rules<div style="text-align: center;">
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Alternate<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>to a Smart Meter<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the United States and </span></div>
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Canada<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>is</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>analog<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>meter. The predominant meter listed in the Oklahoma
Corporation Utility Rules (OCC), and the Customer Contract filed by PSO at the
OCC, is the analog meter. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why has PSO refused the retention of the reliable analog meters in
Oklahoma? PSO's penalty rate to refuse the "offer" of the Smart
Meter is nearly the highest in the Nation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PSO testified before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission that
1,300 customers refused their "offer". When asked by the
Attorney General's office to present evidence, PSO refused. PSO's
narrative changed three times in the same case before the OCC. PSO testified
that 1,300 refused the offer, another witness testified that 250 refused and
another that only 150 customers will refuse <u>once they receive</u> the notice
of the $71 one-time charge and $28.00 penalty per month. PSO spokesman
Stan Whiteford told the press last Thursday that only 60 customers
have refused the Smart Meter. So, how many is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PSO customers who want to retain their reliable analog should be
extended that option at little or no fee. During the case before the OCC
the Attorney General's office submitted <u>eleven pages of evidence</u> from
other states that allowed the retention of the analog meters at a low or no
monthly fee. The Administrative Law Judge, Ben Jackson of the OCC ignored
the eleven pages of evidence in his recommendation to the three Commissioners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Analog meters installed the 1950's are still metering electricity</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Smart Meters have a lifespan of 5 to 7 years according to
Congressional testimony in October 2015 (if they don't malfunction, overheat or
explode from a power surge).</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Analogs are plentiful and still sold in the United States. They
are also manufactured in other countries as are the smart meters.</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">G.E. no longer manufactures the smart meters PSO purchased and
continues to install. G.E. sold their metering division in April 2015</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">PSO's proposed AMR smart meter with the transmitter turned off
produces electromagnetic radiation and still has the liability to arc and
overheat. PSO's AMR is a 10 year old <b>used</b>
meter with an indemnity clause attached, implying the meter is hazardous.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There was no factual disclosure to the unsuspecting public when
PSO launched the deployment of the Smart Meters. Three to five percent of
the public is electro-sensitive to radio frequency radiation and
electromagnetic radiation produced by the smart meters. The only safe
meter for the sensitive is the analog meter. There are smart meter health
cases filed with the OCC which have no resolution after 3 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why has PSO spent two and a half years at the OCC at great legal
expense (passed on to the rate payers) trying to deny those with health related
issues the right to retain the standard (analog) alternative meter? The
attitude of PSO toward their customers has been punitive and discriminating
toward the disabled, the elderly and the poor.
PSO should provide customers with the alternate analog meter, read four
times per year (PSO’s OCC filed requirement) at a reasonable fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PSO should have to follow their own rules. The Standard Alternate
meter to the Smart Meter (AMI), is the analog meter. PSO should allow customers
to keep their analog meters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rondahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08846674896368919766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546673331301710714.post-11668705221964130452016-09-23T00:49:00.001-05:002016-09-23T00:49:07.520-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PSO vs The People: Who’s Lying Now?</div>
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PSO has claimed: Smart Meters Don’t Collect Personal Data</div>
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In the fall of 2015 Assistant Attorney General Jerry Sanger said the he understood the “Utilities have the potential to profit MORE from the customer data sold than the consumption of electricity” (Forbes and Politico). The Oklahoma Corporation Commission was to promulgate the rules more than five years ago to protect our privacy.</div>
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Most people don’t realize that every device in a home has an identifiable frequency signature allowing real time display of intimate details of daily life, when you bathe, cook, do laundry and when you are home or away.</div>
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Who is PSO sharing our private information with? California Utilities have reported sharing the information with the Federal Government, civil and criminal courts and law enforcement without notice to the customer. This violates our 4th Amendment Rights.</div>
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Real-time data collection is a hot commodity, the selling of which can provide a very healthy revenue stream, not accountable and not reported. Considering the fact that utilities can actually make MORE profit from the selling of their customers data than by consumption of utilities, why does PSO continue to request rate increases to make up for the savings you incurred by conserving electricity? But that’s another story for another day.</div>
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Remember, through real-time data collection PSO (and hackers) will know your life style patterns and habits, and once the data is seized and transmitted, your data is no longer protected.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546673331301710714.post-69690905130102630462016-09-01T10:22:00.002-05:002016-09-01T10:22:40.341-05:00Update on Smart Meters in Tulsa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Aug. the 4th PSO customers on the by-pass list received a letter with an indemnity clause as a condition for not accepting the "offer" of the AMI meter. That is, you have to sign a release of liability letter for PSO to install your non-communicating meter. No previous mention of that in OCC hearings.</div>
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Why would the OCC and the Attorney General's office allow PSO to install a hazardous meter on a dwelling or building and force the occupants to forfeit their safety and their right to hold the Company liable for any harm the meter may cause?</div>
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Tulsa 9.12 is working with the State Attorney General's Office and legal counsel on whether PSO can require the 520,000 non-opt-out customers receiving meters from their inventory to sign a release of liability.</div>
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I'm in Nowata, and have not received this PSO letter yet.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546673331301710714.post-74538741024293337632015-07-07T18:33:00.000-05:002015-07-07T18:33:31.483-05:00Forbes: Smart Meters Challenge Privacy Rights<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
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Next generation utility meters better known as “smart meters”, used to measure remotely and in real time gas, water, and – above all – electricity consumption, are now being deployed by several companies in many States across the U.S. While growth has leveled, after legislative incentives drove an initial boom between 2009 and 2012, installations are expected to make steady progress over the next 10 years.<br />
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The claimed reason behind the deployment, is to offer a whole range of benefits to consumers, providing them with feedback on their energy consumption, helping them to change their habits in order to reduce it and save therefore money, and reducing the risk of power outages and other issues, while at the same time providing significant savings and income for the companies involved.</div>
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Still, not everyone is convinced, and smart meters are facing opposition by groups of activists or private citizens concerned about the use of their data. As it often happens when technology is involved, the trade off is between privacy and efficiency, and has to do with the main feature of these sophisticated devices: their two-way communication capability, meaning that the company that operates them can not only receive information from the meters, but also send commands, and get a response back.</div>
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Perhaps the clearest example of this, is the remote connect‑disconnect switch. In the read-only era, if somebody got shut off for not paying the bills, and then wanted to be turned back on, the company had to send a technician, which was expensive, and it could take up to a couple of days to have the service up and running again. Now it can be done almost instantaneously. The real time monitoring and the possibility to adjust and seamlessly modify the energy supply of a certain customer, is also what allows utilities and energy companies to apply different rates according to the time of the day, or the day of the week, in which the energy is used.</div>
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The smart meters market is scheduled to grow significantly in the near future: in the next ten years or so, – Navigant Research forecasts – the overall economic opportunity coming from smart metering will amount to nearly $57 billion worldwide. The country-level installed base of electric smart meters is expected to be led by China, with more than 435 million electric devices installed by December 31, 2020, followed by the United States with about 132 million by the same date.</div>
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<b> Despite the promise of empowering people through enhanced consumption data and provide savings, however, some people are scared and resist the idea of smart metering, citing concerns about meter accuracy, data security, and health. Privacy is probably the most sensitive issue: similarly to what happens with phone calls metadata, information about the energy consumption of a family or of an individual, can reveal a lot of details about the life of the persons monitored.</b></div>
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From when and for how long they stay at home, to the kind of devices used (expensive gadgets, medical equipment and so on), to the movements inside the house – from the dining room (where the TV has just been turned on) to the kitchen. Sounds paranoid? Kind of, but in a post-Snowden world many people seem to believe, for right or wrong, that “paranoia is a virtue“. Canadian director Josh del Sol even shot a documentary called a documentary called “Take back your power“, investigating, he says, “the erosion of rights in the name of ‘smart’ and ‘green’”.</div>
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Some episodes seem to give legs to the concerns. In California, privacy rules adopted in 2011 by the Public Utilities Commission require each utility to issue an annual transparency report describing the number of legal demands received for usage information and the number of customers whose records were actually disclosed. In April 2013 the first reports were issued: the most striking fact to emerge, was that the San Diego Gas & Electric company had disclosed, pursuant to legal process, the records of 4,062 customers. It’s not clear, from the report, who asked for and received those records, and why.</div>
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Aside from governmental monitoring, energy data harvesting, or hacking by third parties could also be possible. But, whereas companies cannot disobey a legal order, there’s a lot they can do to protect their customers from other prying eyes. “We had a lot of effort in cybersecurity up front to design it as secure as you possibly can – Katzman says – First off, a key thing is that we encrypt all the data that comes off the meters. Right after the meter gets installed, we encrypt its communications. All of the data that is sent from the meters wirelessly through the network is sent securely.”</div>
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Still, some people might not be comfortable using smart meters, for one reason or another. That’s why some States require utilities to give consumers the chance to opt-out of smart meter deployments, usually in exchange for a fee. In Texas, for instance, it could cost you more than $200 to stick with an old analog meter. Others do not give the chance at all. “In the State of Pennsylvania – Katzman says – the legislature actually passed a law in 2009, requiring all electric distribution companies that had over 100,000 customers to deploy smart meters by 2025″. Companies are basically forced, therefore, to replace the old read-only devices with the new ones. So, what about those residents who would prefer to stick to their old, read-only, device?</div>
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“Out of 1.2 million or so, – the manager says – we have a couple thousand. We’re holding off towards the end, which is coming up the end of this year, when we’re scheduled to be completed, to see if there is an opt‑out policy in Pennsylvania that does get adopted. If there is, we’d obviously abide by that. If there’s isn’t, customers will have to use the smart meters, if they want to keep getting power”.</div>
Smart Meters Are Not Okhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180489751249187684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-546673331301710714.post-3017198860899902892015-07-07T18:14:00.002-05:002015-07-07T18:16:02.888-05:00French Ban On Wifi In Daycare Centers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(NaturalNews)</span> The French National Assembly has adopted a bill to limit exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by wireless technologies - cell phones, tablets, Wi-Fi etc. This bill will mean the following:</div>
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Children's EMF exposures are a particular cause for concern. Studies show that children's brains can absorb up to three times as much radiation compared to adults.</div>
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A recent International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report suggested that EMF exposures can be more devastating in children because their:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Electrical power lines, transformers and railway lines are also sources of EMFs.</li>
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French National Agency calls to limit EMF exposures</h4>
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ANSES now urges "limiting exposure of the population", particularly to cell phones. It also encourages the use of an earpiece.</div>
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ANSES already rang the alarm bell in October 2013. After evaluating more than 300 international studies, the agency published a report highlighting the biological effects of EMFs on humans and animals concerning sleep, male fertility and cognitive performance.</div>
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A spokesperson for ANSES stated that "the massive development of technologies relying on radiofrequencies, leading to intensive exposure of the population, specifically more sensitive persons, which cannot be avoided". They went on to say that the deployment of 4G "will be accompanied by increased exposure of the public".</div>
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Lower exposure limits adopted in Europe</h4>
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French exposure limits are based on a 2002 decree. They are set at 61 volts per meter (V/m) for 3G and 4G, the same as in the USA. The Council of Europe recommends an exposure limit of 0.6 V/m, some 100 times lower.</div>
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Switzerland and Liechtenstein and eight Member States of the European Union (Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia) have adopted more restrictive limits than those of France.</div>
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Progress for electrosensitives</h4>
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In Europe there is a growing recognition of the plight of persons suffering ill health from exposure to electromagnetic fields, a condition known as electrical hypersensitivity or electrical sensitivity. This new bill requires that the French government provides Parliament with a report detailing "the opportunity to create areas of limited electromagnetic radiation, notably in the urban environment". It also requires that the conditions of electrosensitives by taken into account in the workplace.</div>
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Though this bill has to be adopted by the French Senate for it to made into law, clearly this bill reflects the buildup of public opinion in France and other European countries that EMF exposures are dangerous and the public needs protecting. How long before US public opinion is successful in introducing similar protective legislation?</div>
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<a href="http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.ch/">http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.ch</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/036016_cell_phone_radiation_tumors.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/036016_cell_phone_radiation_tumors.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Lloyd Burrell is the founder of http://www.electricsense.com/. Since falling prey to a violent reaction to his cell phone in 2002 Lloyd has spent more than 10 years researching the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on health. He is the author of an eBook entitled "How To Beat Electrical Sensitivity" which offers a solution to the growing number of people whose health is being compromised by exposure to wireless and similar technologies.</span></div>
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Are We Cooking Our Kids?</h4>
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"What I urge of all of you is to rise above the mud slinging and the pretend science and be the ones who finally show integrity after all this time. You might think your task is limited in its scope, but you are in a unique position to provide a tool to the lonely voices on the school boards who might want to take precautionary action. You could suggest that dramatically safer standards be set in places where children are forced by law to spend six hours a day for their entire childhood."<br />
<a name='more'></a>- <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Rodney Palmer on Safety Code 6</i></span></div>
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