Not so with smart grids, where much of the benefit accrues to consumers who would, for example, use upgraded electricity meters to reduce consumption, and lower their utility bill.
Safety standards should be established for blood glucose monitoring prohibiting sharing of fingerstick lancing devices, lancets, needles, and meters to reduce the risk of transmission of blood borne diseases.
"They have big houses, big cars," said Muhamed E. Baderi, a plastic-tube maker who said he knew a metal-works company that regularly bribed its meter man to reduce its electric bill.
If the efficiency of your charging system allows you to make electricity with less financial cost than buying it from the grid, then your car can power your house and turn the meter backwards to reduce or eliminate your electric bill.
Every home in the UK must be fitted with a "smart meter" by 2020 to reduce energy use and pave the way for a low-carbon "smart grid", under plans unveiled by the government today.
The challengers are also taking a lead in applying new technology to measuring consumption; "smart meters" allow people to reduce their bills.All this is good news, finally, for the beleaguered consumers.
The consumption data can be collected by smart meters, enabling consumers to reduce electricity costs through close monitoring.
The Trump administration says this strategy, which it calls "metering," is meant to reduce logistical constraints on CBP.
May's proposal, which was unanimously approved by a state House transportation committee Wednesday, was praised by Karen Tamley, commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, for striking "a balance between protecting the needs of people with disabilities who cannot physically access the meters and working to reduce fraud and abuse of the program," the Sun-Times reports.
Experts including the federal National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have long said that the allowable dust level should be cut in half -- from the current standard of no more than two milligrams for each cubic meter of air -- to reduce black-lung deaths.
