The landmark white paper, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”, revealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money has been misspent on ‘smart’ meters with federal stimulus funding, was walked in to the offices of 200 members of Congress today by the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy (NISLAPP) and Maryland Smart Meter Awareness.
Included was the recent NISLAPP paper, “Green Electricity or Green Money? Why some environmental groups hamper clean energy”, a new paper on conflicts of interest at leading environmental organizations, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC). The paper suggests conflicts prevent these groups from fully embracing the needed transition to a renewable energy economy.
Camilla Rees, Senior Policy Advisor to NISLAPP, says “Billions of dollars of ‘smart’ utility meters are being installed across America that are unable to integrate with, or enable, the ‘smart grid’ of the future on which U.S. energy sustainability depends. Congress ought to get a better grasp of the true elements of a smart grid and of an abundant renewable energy economy. We’re propping up a failing centralized utility model with purchases like these meters and need to change course now to allow the rooftop revolution to begin in seriousness on our soil.”
“Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”, written by NISLAPP Senior Research Fellow, Timothy Schoechle, PhD, explains the new meters and networks do not improve energy efficiency, enhance energy management, help balance supply and demand, or facilitate the integration of renewable sources. Instead, the meters drive up costs, introduce unnecessary risks to personal privacy, health and safety, and divert financial and technical resources needed to create a truly wise grid. “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid” describes what a truly smart electricity grid would look like, one that is capable of integrating “distributed” power generation from renewable and sustainable energy sources without the privacy, security, cost, reliability, radiation, or potential public health impacts of the present approach.
Timothy Schoechle, Ph.D. has been engaged in engineering development of electric utility gateways and energy management systems for over 25 years. He is an expert on the international standards system and serves as secretariat of ISO/IEC SC32 Data Management and Interchange, and Secretary of ISO/IEC SC25 Working Group 1, the international standards committee for Home Electronic Systems. Dr. Schoechle is a founder of BI Incorporated, pioneer developer of RFID technology, and former faculty member of the University of Colorado College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Anita Moore, DVM, a veterinarian in Lothian, MD, and a member of Maryland Smart Meter Awareness, says, “The irony of this is that the smart meter isn’t even necessary to modernize the grid. The basis on which the meters have been presented to communities is false and Americans need to know this.“
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