The battle over SMART Meters is heating up. Health problems including
headaches are being reported around the country wherever these meters are installed. At this CPUC meeting in California, CPUC commissiner Peevey gives the ok for reinstallation of analog meters. EMF safety network reports this:
EMFsafety.org
Peevey OKs Analogs!
On Thursday September 22, at the California Public Utilities Commission business meeting, President Michael Peevey told Chandu Vyas, who’s been suffering from headaches, that he could talk to PG&E and they would provide that he “could go back to the analog meter”. President Peevey directed Mr. Vyas to contact Mr. Sidney Bob Dietz, whose number is: 415-973-5921.
If you want to remove your Smart Meter and have an analog restored, contact Mr. Dietz, or contact Thomas Bottorff, 415-973-3889.
President Peevey could not just allow Mr. Vyas his analog, without allowing others, right?
CPUC business meeting video here Mr. Vyas is the first to speak at public comments at the beginning of the video.
Apr 11, 2012 @ 11:48:13
I’m from Australia and while we were away unknowingly had a smart meter installed. Since I’ve been moody, feeling sick, nauseous, had a head ache and even suicidal thoughts and that all in the 3 days since installation how the hell can we get rid of this discussing device 😦
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Feb 12, 2012 @ 00:14:12
On September 14, 2011, I sent a certified letter to Mr. Kenneth Devore, Director. requesting to keep my current meter. I gave him 2 legitimate reasons for my request. When it was installed on Februrary 11, 2012, I called SCE with no results. Then I contacted Mr. Devore’s office, but he is unavailable to speak with me. They had me contact someone named Jerry who told me I could not change the smartmeter until an optout date occurs. He does not know when that is. He said I would have to pay an initial fee of $60 and also $10 a month,.
Stuck
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Dec 14, 2011 @ 00:41:32
http://www.rense.com/general95/smrt.htm – No smart meter required.
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Dec 13, 2011 @ 17:09:57
Thefe are web sites that will sell you your own replacement analog meter, instructions for replacement, and a legal kit all for around $50. Just google “stop smart meter” or “refuse smart meter”
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Nov 24, 2011 @ 22:54:11
I didn’t let the dude from the electric company put one on my house and that was back in August. I haven’t heard anything more about it and as you see, I still have electric running. No one in the neighborhood has made any complaints about how they feel with the new meters, but that does not mean that they are not getting something harmful. When something happens with me for not having the meter, I will let all of you know what goes down on that. There are only a few others that didn’t get one installed, and that is because no one can get into their backyard and change it out, so maybe that has saved me from being hit hard by the electric company.
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Nov 23, 2011 @ 19:53:57
This is England bill for sample. I wish I can read my own electric meter by enter meter reading on line account.
http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/YourAccount/GiveAMeterReading/
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Nov 23, 2011 @ 19:53:25
This is England bill for sample. I wish I can read my own electric meter by enter meter reading on line account.
http://www.southern-electric.co.uk/YourAccount/GiveAMeterReading/
What do you think?
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Oct 27, 2011 @ 02:23:58
Debbie: FYI, Peevey has given another person, Elizabeth Barris, the OK to get her analog back during PUC meetings in LA on Oct. 6th.
Elizabeth, of the thepeoplesinitiative.org, claims though that SCE wants to charge her an outrageous $4000.00 fee for this, something about its a shared meter…
See the CPUC L.A. video here: stopsmartmeters.org ….”CPUC Grants SCE Customer an Analog Meter”
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Oct 07, 2011 @ 14:27:36
Oct 05, 2011 @ 03:58:45
If it is a reason to charge extra because someone has to come out and read the old meter, then do it like they do in Houston and send a card to the resident and have them to mark the card with the same numbers that the meter reader would do and then mail it back to the electric company. Others have thier home now with this meter and I don’t yet. My last bill said nothing about it. If it is a health problem, then none of us need that of course, and if it were to raise my bill each month, that is wrong also. My bill runs right now about $15.00 a month. I keep it low because I am on a fixed income and every penny counts.
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Oct 04, 2011 @ 21:20:47
LATEST UPDATE: 3:00 p.m. 10-3-11
I spoke to Carol Brown, Mr. Peevey’s chief of staff. She was animated and charged up. She was annoyed with Peevey’s remark at the last CPUC meeting in San Fran. She told me that he came back to the office in San Fran and admitted to her that he had screwed up. She told me that he had been very frustrated with PG&E and this frustration caused him to blurt out his remark to Mr Vyas about how PG&E would switch out his smart meter for the old analog meter.
Carol Brown said that Peevey had “misspoke;” that PG&E had no authority to follow the order of any CPUC board member, even if he was the President and that they should have known that they can’t take a request from a board member of the CPUC and act on it. She speculated that PG&E acted on it for PR purposes. She strongly regretted Peevey blurting out his remark and regretted PG&E fulfilling Peevey’s request.
She also said that the CPUC, during their discussions of the Op-out program, had no intention of switching customer’s smart meters for the old analog meters. What they were discussing was being able to “turn-off” the transmitter on the customer’s Smart Meter. She told me that there was a real “problem” with how they were going to incorporate the “op-out” program into the current program. And that was the major reason for creating the delay in the CPUC ruling. Apparently, if there are a lot of homes that don’t have the “smart meters” in a neighborhood, then the “handshake” (when smart meters communicate with other smart meters) is interrupted and the system breaks down. She said that they were talking about having to put “towers” up in neighborhoods to compensate for the interruption in this home-to-home communication. And that the “smart meter” manufacturers were going to have to innovate an entirely new IT system, i.e., a new “input” system.
She also told me that she had been privy to discussions about the “smart meter” system for five years. And that there had never been any discussions about possible health ramifications or privacy concerns. She said nobody mentioned anything about these issues. This was in response to my asking her why the utility companies and the CPUC had not had a plan for the op-outters.
Brown admitted that the “smart meter” health studies were too short and that they lacked studies on residences that had “banks” of smart meters (like apartment complexes.) Additionally, she maintained that the meters only pulsed 47 seconds per day. She explained that the readings that independent customers were getting off their “radiation” meters are only measuring the very weak 24/7, “lower frequency” signals and that these are nothing to worry about.
She told me, besides the numerous complaints that the CPUC had received, there were only two “formal complaints.” When I asked her what a formal complaint was, she told me that it was a complaint that was treated like a court case. When I told her that I had heard that there were people planning on suing over this issue, she told me that the attorney general of California would represent CPUC in that kind of matter and that there is never a monetary award in cases like this.
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Oct 04, 2011 @ 01:44:10
Let them know that We the People are the Bosses, not them.
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 20:17:10
Update from Debbie (707) 255-5022: I just spoke to Mr. Torres again and he said that PG&E was quite surprised when they got the order from Mr. Peevey to switch out Mr. Vyas’ meter. He said, to his knowledge, they have not switched out anyone else’s meter. When I asked him if he thought that was fair to other PG&E customers, he said he couldn’t comment. By the way, they switched Vyas’ meter out within a few days! (I guess PG&E knows who their master is.)
I also spoke with Cody at Mr. Peevey’s office who is the senior legal typist there. Cody remarked that the vast majority of the complaints are coming from No. California and not So. California; that seemed to really perplex him. Cody’s boss is Mr. Peevey’s chief of staff: Carol Brown. Apparently Mr. Peevey will be out of the office for the duration of this week (10-3-11.) Carol’s number is (415) 703-2782. She needs to hear our complaints, especially about how unfair it was to switch out one customer’s meter and none others.
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 20:13:45
I just called the above numbers and the first two for Mr Dietz and Mr Torres go directly to voice mail. The third to Mr Peevey is answered by a receptionist who refers you to the Smart Meter response line 1-800-789-0550, where you register a one-time comment about the meters.
Looks like a total dodge of the swarm of complaints that must be coming in now.
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 18:53:19
Well, according to Sidney Dietz and Mark Torres at PG&E (I spoke with both of them,) Mr. Peevey meant that he was making an exception for Mr. Vyas and that the rest of us have to wait for the CPUC to “rule” on the “customer Choice” application. According to Sidney Dietz, the CPUC is supposed to rule sometime by early next year, (2012) “possibly by the first quarter of next year.” He further said that one of the reasons for the delay is that the CPUC is trying to figure out how much money PG&E should charge the customers that want to go back to the old analog meter. The figure on the table right now is a one-time installation charge of $135 and a monthly surcharge of $20/month. I’d like to suggest that everyone deluge Sidney Dietz, (415-973-5921) Mark Torres (415) 973-7100 and Mr. Peevey (415) 703-2156 with complaints. Our complaints have made a difference so far. Our continued complaints may persuade them to rule on this sooner and may even force them to drop the extortion fees to switch out the meters. I’m Debbie in Napa, (707) 255-5022.
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 13:51:54
If you live in an area with homes all around you who still have those smart meters they are still giving off those signal waves. ANSWER: Get rid of all of them for our children’s sake
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 13:47:54
If you live in an area homes with all around they still have smart meters and are giving off those signal waves still. ANSWER: Get rid of them all for our children’s sake
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Oct 03, 2011 @ 10:51:50
A Victory, no matter how small is enlightening !
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