Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

hours a day, you wil constantly be exposed to it from your own smartmeter and all of those other smartmeters
around you.
PGE had to very drastically speed up its planned deployment schedule of these “smartmeters”, ever since the
World Health Organization’s recent report on this type of radiation exposure (including that from cell phones
and cell-phone towers) which revealed these wireless transmitting devices to be a very significant long-term
health risk, and since communities were starting to realize this and organize against the deployment of these
smartmeter devices. The growing evidence of this wireless radiation as a carcinogen, and high association with
significant increases in occurances of a wide variety of major diseases and human health disorders, is now
presenting a huge threat to the wireless industry’s profitability.
What’s worse, all of this new “smartmeter” wireless radiation exposure to us could have been easily avoided by
PGE, if they had simply chosen to use the relatively new and very reliable powerline-networking protocol,
which would use the exising powerlines to transmit network data in a hard-wired fashion (rather than
choosing instead to use the microwave-based wireless radiation networking protocol in these smartmeters).
There will surely be a very serious long-term health impact on every community that receives these smartmeter
devices, and apparently you will not be allowed the option to opt-out either. Children and pregnant women
may be most short-term vulnerable to these new risks, as well as those with reduced immune system function –
but all of us will be negatively health effected, with progressively worse effects and exponentially increasing
illness occurrance over time.
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The real problem is that the smart electric meters are a defacto rate increase, sometimes a couple of hundred
dollars a month. People who use power during the day, like mothers, retired folks, the bedridden, all are going
to be forced to pay a surcharge for peak power. This is a hidden rate increase not specifically addressed by the
PUC. It is not completely offset by equally decreased off hour rates, thus a de facto rate increase. It is an
exorbitant rate, unaffordable for those who need power during the day.
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What really bothers me about the new meters is their software – it was written by programmers who weren’t
thinking about viruses and malware. There has been some chatter in the technical press about worms and
viruses being written that infect the smart meters and propagate themselves from meter to meter, and then
can shut off your power when they get the secret signal from a server somewhere in China or Eastern Europe…
Could cause a lot of social disruption during a crisis?
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We just had our meter changed to this ” smart ” meter. It blinks a very visible light. If you are inside with the
lights and porch light off, you can see the light from its blinking I can see it from 100 feet away. My radio
reception buzz’s periodically with a sound like Morse code on steroids and it does it on two different stereo
systems at the same time that its happening with one of the systems not even on radio reception. I just went
out to see how much it blinks and it blinks 3 times a second.
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PG & E recently came by the house, built in the early 50s and attempted to install a smart meter. I have one
GFCI circuit for outdoor, kitchen and garage outlets. With the smart meter, the circuit breaker continually
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