Smart Grid Awareness

According to the Pepco website:

“Pepco, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc., delivers safe, reliable and affordable electric service to more than 793,000 customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia.”

Regarding smart meters, according to documentation on the Pepco website:

“Do smart meters emit radio frequency (RF) signals continuously throughout the day?

No.  The actual percent of time the smart meter is transmitting, especially in the initial years of operation, is very small, usually less than 1% which is equivalent to an average of less than 60 seconds cumulatively throughout the day.  Smart meter communications are typically less than a second and under normal operations, take place every 4-6 hours.”

According to the following news broadcast of February 20, 2013, on WUSA, Channel 9, in Washington, D.C., the smart meters are emitting RF radiation much more frequently than every “4-6 hours.”

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions, Updated October 2018

When you want to promote the safety of a product, it is common to use a chart in an attempt to put in perspective the safety of “your” product in comparison with other products.  Unfortunately, you are sometimes forced to compare “apples with oranges” in these endeavors, and depending on your level of bias, two different organizations can arrive at totally different charts using basically the same data.

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Electric utilities across the country are replacing analog meters that must be read in person with wireless smart meters that transmit data about customers’ energy consumption continually throughout the day.

See the full Wall Street Journal article on this subject at the link below, where a case is made “for” and “against” the smart meter program.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323415304578368683701371280.html?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines