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degggendorf t1_jefqi72 wrote

Reply to comment by BossCrabMeat in Meter replacement carries $200M shock: Rhode Island Energy’s advanced metering proposal ‘costs would be borne by ratepayers’ by york100

>My name is Murphy, and that is my law.

Hah, fair enough. I'm sorry to deny your identity like that. It was unfair, and I am sorry.

> So they'll add $380 to my bill, to make their lives easier and fire couple meter readers to save costs ?

Well yeah, basically. With a few extra notes that the owner will have a couple additional tools too, early replacement will reduce surprise failures, it will allow them to track and fix outages faster, and the cost savings will hypothetically pay for the upfront cost.

Then it doesn't seem to be part of the proposal, but these meters will also unlock the ability to have different rates at different times of the day, which can save everyone money by reducing peak loads, and help attentive consumers spend even less money on energy.

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BossCrabMeat t1_jefu81g wrote

Remember the "Federal telephone excise tax" that was imply to pay for the Spanish-American war, but somehow we keep paying for?

My fear is this is going to be something like that, "new meter charge", that will stay on your bill till 2354(that is the date a huge astroid will hit earth and end all life), because why not, we can .

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