Rosy picture is painted about smart grid

"... energy distribution will be more two-way, with producers of all sorts selling energy through a new, open market."

Rosy picture is painted. But customers don't want 'two-way' partnerships with a monopoly that has 'producers of all sorts' hawking electricity which is a necessity to consumers.

How do we know customers don't want it? Because grid promoters are not being truthful and people know it. For starters, promoters told people that 'smart meters save money.' Fortunately that lie is exposed.

Here's what the real outcome of smart grid will look like.
People will pay for meters, and then when the next falsehood that 'grid innovation will supply useful information' becomes an expensive boondoggle, people will halt the program until full costs and benefits are revealed.

Yet we know customers face no benefit.
How do I know this is true?
Because smart grid costs are not discussed openly in public.

Ten-year estimates from Berg Insights, ABI, and Pike Research say grid build-out will cost multi-billions of dollars. And those figures don't include long-term costs to operate the grid.
Right now, Cisco and others are buying ownership of grid software.
Software companies anticipate monthly contracts to run the grid using taxpayer-protected copyright to enforce exclusivity.

A contract to read meters in Ontario pays IMB 25 cents per meter per month.
Sooner or later it will dawn on people that software companies will be at their door with cost increases for running the grid that will far out-strip the cost of having the meter read 3 times a year by local meter readers.

But none of these issues loom as important as ownership of the meter switch, which will flee overseas in fear of the American vote.

Put it on your calendar.
At some point, ownership of electric resources will become a flashpoint divide between owners and customers.
It is going to be a morass.

Gene Haynes