| ▲ | protocolture 15 hours ago | |
>Aside from the supposed "contentious" nature of smart meters, which is mostly the RW cookers thinking it's some nefarious plot, along with vaccines and 5G. Eh I sit on the fence on this one. Take your pick as to who is going to abuse the data. Corps or the government to taste. Consider this very proposal, incentives to use power at certain times are good. But that incentive structure could instead be very anti consumer. Higher prices when we need electricity would be a horrid state of affairs when rents have doubled in 5 years and a lot of people are barely holding on. | ||
| ▲ | rswail 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Smart meters don't make things better or worse, they are technology that enables better time-of-use metering than the century of multiple meters for peak vs off-peak consumption, as well as making meter reading/billing cheaper. They enable new services like feed-in tariffs and incorporation of V2G and VPP infrastructure. Rents have not doubled in 5 years. Rental inflation peaked at ~8% and is now below 4% pa. | ||