{"id":553398,"date":"2022-09-30T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553398"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:14:36","slug":"smart-meters-gas-and-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553398","title":{"rendered":"Smart Meters: Gas and Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appears that the Utility Companies are gradually switching over to Smart Meters.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the elimination of a monthly meter reader.<\/p>\n<p>-on demand access to usage<\/p>\n<p>-some maintenance savings and ease of measuring leakages<\/p>\n<p>Disadvantages:<\/p>\n<p>-another wireless device, associated health concerns<\/p>\n<p>-possibility of future utility control (carbon allowance) Social Credit system<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The coercion is great. \u00a0The monthly penalty for reading the meter can be prohibitive to some and they are forced into accepting one.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else concerned?<\/p>\n<p>Is this happening in other countries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appears that the Utility Companies are gradually switching over to Smart Meters. Advantages: &#8211; the elimination of a monthly meter reader. -on demand access to usage -some maintenance savings and ease of measuring leakages Disadvantages: -another wireless device, associated health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=553398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}