Quote Originally Posted by Perp
Electric companies are starting to install new, digital meters for their customers. These meters allow the meter reader to just drive by the house to record your usage. Also, they are able to monitor when you use your electricity because the companies want to charge more for usage during peak times (during the day), and less for after hours usage. That means these new meters will be able to detect usage patterns for individual homes. EG. from 9 PM to 9 AM every night Joe Blow's usage spikes by 2400 W or whatever.

Naturally, you are going to want to save money by running things at night, but these patterns are what cops will look for if they have probable cause to investigate you, not necessarily the amount of electricity you use.

So, stay safe all.

Use 15 watt CFL lights in the whole house, and for the garden have the lights on with your alarm clock, they come on when your alarm clock goes off and turn off when you go to bed. Theory is, the electric used will show that at 4:00am you get up and at 10pm you go to bed, nothings running while you sleep. Also put it behind your furnace to off set FLIR hot spots, If they use FLIR they will see your furnace and water heater glow.
wowman5 Reviewed by wowman5 on . how to keep Electricity down How do people in here keep the Electricity down? I ask cuz dont that set off an alarm to the cops or someone that can make your day really bad? Or is that not really a problem? Rating: 5