Smart Meters Articles & Reports - January 24, 2015 South Africa - USA (California) [Smart Grid - TOU - ZA South Africa] Say goodbye to to cheap electricity - The transition from an economy abased on cheap electricity to one which is supplied with electricity at the price that it costs to produce will be a painful, writes Dirk de Vos - mybroadband - January 24, 2015: - mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/117420-say-goodbye-to-to-cheap-electricity.html (....Insist that local governments re-adjust their own budgets so that, over time, the sale of electricity has a neutral impact. The path to this is via a mass deployment of time of use (with smart metering). Using telemetry rather than an expensive roll out of smart meters can be done today. As electricity becomes more expensive, people will use less of it but usage patterns become more “peaky”. Variable time based billing smoothes this out. Charging for electricity will also need to change to having a line charge (to maintain the distribution network) and a consumption charge. We should then get municipalities to aggressively pursue energy savings programmes and feed in programmes that encourage rooftop solar and provide for feeding surplus electricity back into the grid....) [Legal - California, USA] U.S. federal attorneys must investigate California Public Utilities Commission by Thomas D. Elias - Los Angeles Daily News - January 19, 2015: - smartmeterharm.org/2015/01/22/u-s-federal-attorneys-must-investigate-california-public-utilities-commission/
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