Smart Grid Facts

“Smart Meters do emit radio frequency energy… But so does your…radio. And your cell phone. And your microwave. And your baby monitor. And any coffee shop, library or hotel that has wi-fi.”

For example, Pepco Holdings, Inc., a SGCC member utility, has…
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“Smart Meters can pinpoint and fix problems, often before they happen. So if an outage does occur, power can be restored quickly, keeping businesses up and homes safe during storms and heat waves.”

This video from Con Edison does a good job of showing just what…
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“Smart meters will allow you to make choices that lower bills and shrink your environmental footprint with tools like information displays, facts about use and prices and set and forget home energy management which is good for your wallet and good for the planet.”

Shown here, smart meters give you control over your power bill.…
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“Smart meters could reduce the cost of power interruptions by more than 75 percent, saving the American economy more than $150 billion a year.”

According to the Electric Power Research Institute, by 2020 the…
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“Smart meters only know how much power is being used – not specifically how it’s being used – and utilities will continue to keep that data private as they’ve done for decades.”

The privacy of electricity usage data is protected now and that…
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“It would take 375 years of direct contact with a smart meter to equal the same amount of radio frequency exposure from a daily, 15-minute cell phone call over the course of one year.”

While analyzing the health effects of radio frequency from smart…
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