Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

The pamphlet is entitled: “See Your Power. Say Hello To Your New Smartmeter”.
I’m informing Carre Brown, who represents me here in the 2nd District, of this incident. Apparently, the BOS
moratorium doesn’t mean a damn thing to PG&E.
Bottom line: Had I not been home, I would have had a smart meter installed. Talk about disrespecting
authority! I thought that was the province of the tinfoil hat crowd, not PG&E. I may just get myself a tinfoil hat
of my own.
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Weird Crazy dreams- This Florida man investigates what’s on the wall behind his bedroom.
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We have been having problems with inconsistent billing of our electricity from PGE. Really high one month,
then non-existent the next month. In addition, the electricity had been going off at night for 1/2 of our house.
PG&E came and reinstalled a SmartMeter. However, we still had been having the electricity go off. We paid
for a licensed electrician to come out and take a look. He said the Smart Meter was improperly installed and
had to reinstall it so it worked correctly. He said it was overheating causing the electricity to go off. Good
thing it did not start a fire! Aside from the bad billing which I’m not even sure if it was correct, we had to pay
a electrician to fix PG&Es improper installation. I’m not happy that we were literally “in the dark” about their
poor service.
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Ever since PGE installed their junk SmartMeter, my satellite TV paused every few seconds, outdoor motion
sensor light goes on all the time and my baby monitor gives loud static pop every few seconds.
Utility Comment: Placed the blame on my equipment, suggesting that I buy new ones. All my equipment
worked fine, until the smart junk was installed. Unnecessarily spending hundreds of dollars on new equipment
is much different than seeing your bill significantly increased.
Request of CPUC: If SmartMeters are so smart, then they should send data once an hour or day instead of
every few seconds. This way, if they interfere with other equipment, its not every few seconds.
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Upon installation of the smart meter, a power surge occurred and burned up my fridge & electric car which
was plugged in inside my garage being charged. I called SDG&E, who denied ANY rsponsibility & was told to
call VSI, the sub-contractor who installed the meter. Filed a compolaint for damages with them; they had the
complaint a month, then SDG&E got involved! Claims Adj.haas admitted cupability & doesn’t know what he’ss
doing; I lost 38 lbs. since I had no refrigeration for food, I’m Diabetic & only after I called PUC, who contacted
Exec. Offices of SDG&E did they issue a check for my fridge only. However, check contains a clause if I endorse
it, cash it, my claim for damages is closed! So I’m still without a refrigerator. They’re still on square ONE for
damages to my electric car and want me to pay ALL costs for repairs, then they will reimburse me! (Yeah,
right!) What?!! I refused as I am a widow living below the poverty line and do not have $3,000+ for new
batteries and a new computer for my car. Claims Adjuster is dense and doesn’t know beans; meanwhile, i sit
here without my car and I’m inconvenienced while they diddle. Claim was filed 11/30/10 and there has been no
progress no check or an offer of settlement as they’re still in square one! How can this multi-billion dollar
business operate in such fashion as to abuse their customers and hold them over the barrel for property they
damaged, and refuse to pay up? I’m at my wits end and fed up! How ’bout I withhold for months payment of
my monthly bill, SDG&E? I’m sure you wouldn’t wait until I got ready to pay it, would you!!! P.S. – The PUC is
nothing more than a farce, a worhless co. which does NOTHING for the customer but one who schmoozes with
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