I know we’re a cynical bunch, but sheesh. Our current electric meter tech is very outdated. Right now they literally have to drive a truck past every customer once a month to read everyone’s meter, which is expensive and wasteful. Real-time energy monitoring is objectively better technology and it’s the right direction to be going in.

We have every right to push back on who should pay for it, but calling the technology itself unnecessary is Luddism.