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I know this is an older thread but I was wondering if the utility company is cheating somehow. Ever since the smart meter was installed my bill went up quite a lot. I had bad run-in’s with the power company claiming I was stealing electricity and sent the police to my house and had me detained while they did an illegal search and seizure of my home and took personal documents like my birth certificate and social security card. They couldn’t prove that I stole electricity so they dropped the case in court. When they cut their wires from my service, they damaged the entire service and it had to be replaced and inspected and permits to be pulled. I also had to pay a 1000 dollar deposit to have my electricity turned back on. Once my bills went from 75 dollars a month with a single person living in the home to around 150 to 250 a month consistently. This is when I decided to put in an emporia energy home monitor and it’s showing I should be using around 75 to 100 a month in electricity when my bill is 200 to 250. The power company told me the smart meter was way better at detecting power usage than the cheap chinese junk I had installed. They claimed that emporia is and has always been inaccurate at detecting power draw and they even told me it was illegal and not up to code to have extra equipment installed in my electrical panel and that I should probably remove the emporia from my electrical equipment. The lady even said that the emporia could also interfere with the smart meter and it’s communication and that I would be responsible for any data error or damage to their equipment as a result of using any non-utility equipment installed in my service panel. I am not the only one on consumers energy that complained of extremely higher bills after the smart meter was installed. A friend of my lives a few miles north of town and uses Great Lakes energy and he uses around 65 to 75 a month in electricity and it might go to 85 in the summer when hes running A/C.
