Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
regulators. Thus, if a neighboring system has a shortage of electricity, your thermostat might automatically be turned down to compensate; if you have exceeded your monthly daytime quota of electricity, energy-consuming tasks like washing and drying clothes, could be limited to overnight hours. Smart Grid and the utility's control extend beyond electricity. Notice in Figure 1 that there is a Wi-Fi linkage to gas and water meters as well!
Consumer Blowback? Wall Street Journal reported "What Utilities Have Learned From Smart-Meter Tests..." on February 22, 2010, and revealed several important early aspects of smart grid implementation. A principal goal is to enable utilities to restructure rate plans. A principal goal is to force consumer behavior to change. Some utility executives anticipate and fear a consumer rebellion. Nevertheless, the big carrot for utility companies to go along with the government's Smart Grid is to balance electrical demand, cut back on new power generation facilities and enhance their profit picture. Before the dust settles on Smart Grid, both consumers and utilities may learn some sharp lessons about government intervention: When the government shows up on your doorstep and offers to help you save money, everyone knows that is an oxymoron. Government does not function to help people or companies to save money or to be more efficient; rather, it functions to maintain and increase its own power and control over its citizens.
The UNEP report reveals that "15 percent of the fiscal stimulus funds committed for
2009-2010, which exceed $3.1 trillion, can be regarded as green in nature... most green components are oriented towards energy efficiency and renewable energies in a variety of sectors."
The Smart Grid Going Global: A Business Week article, "How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid," stated on November 16, 2009 that "After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global." Indeed, it is:
Italy has already implemented Smart Grid technology in 85 percent of its homes nationwide.
Earth2tech.com reports that Smart Grid will generate $200 billion of global investment in the next few years. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has laid out a global roadmap to insure interoperability of Smart Grid systems between nations. Global companies are rushing to gain their share of the global Smart Grid market:
IBM, Siemens, GE, Cisco, Panasonic, Kyocera, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, etc. China is spending $7.32 billion to build out Smart Grid in Asia. Other countries with Smart Grid pilot projects already launched include Germany, France, England, Russia, Japan, India, Australia, South Africa and a host of others. Regional organizations such as SMARTGRIDS Africa have been set up to promote Smart Grid in smaller countries. Thus, the global rush is on. In every case, Smart Grid is being accelerated by
government stimulus spending. The global vendors are merely lining up their money buckets to be filled up with taxpayer funds. As is the case in the U.S., there was little, if any, preexisting or latent demand for Smart Grid technology. Demand has been artificially created by the respective governments of each country.
Conclusion: Smart Grid meets 100 percent of the Technocracy's original requirements. In other words, it will monitor and control both delivery and consumption of energy and other green resources such as water and gas.
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