The ACC is tasked with the responsibility to protect AZ ratepayers by weighing the costs and benefits of all state utility requests.
Sedona AZ (January 6, 2015) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
I have appealed the Arizona Corporation Commission’s decision to charge people who refuse “smart” meters an extortion fee.
The so-called “Findings of Fact” section of the Decision should be more aptly named “Errors and Omissions of Fact & Findings of Fantasy.”Amongst other points, this appeal will reveal the vast amount of errors and omissions in the Decision. These errors and omissions render as false the commissioners’ claim to have “fully considered these matters.” This appeal will also expose the legal Fantasy Land that the commissioners must inhabit in order to come to the conclusions they did and falsely claim they are “balancing the public interest.”In short, the underlying assumptions of the Decision have no basis in law or fact, and so the Decision’s conclusions are false.
My appeal is here: http://images.edocket.azcc.gov/docketpdf/0000159183.pdf
It’s long but only because the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) has blown it so badly, so completely.
You won’t want to miss the part (Commissioners cut APS slack and violate state statutes) where commissioner Brenda Burns actually brags about working for APS as a mystery shopper instead of enforcing the state statutes she was elected to uphold.
Too bad the issue isn’t funny. Happy reading anyway.
Sedona, Arizona
For the best Arizona news and views, read www.SedonaEye.com daily!
Just for record, the title of this article was not my choice.
1) My appeal encompasses a great deal more than APS’s extortion fee.
2) “Opt out” is a misleading, inaccurate propaganda term that I avoid. As I have pointed out to the ACC numerous times in the past, no one can “opt out” from something they never “opted in” to in the first place.
3) Additionally, the whole “opt out” ploy, as used by the ACC & APS, has no basis in either Federal or State law. See page 9 of my appeal.
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APS Fees Set Regarding Smart Meters
On December 12, 2014, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) ruled that Arizona Public Service (APS) charge $5 per month for meter reading to customers who choose to opt out of the installation of a smart meter. In addition, the ACC ruled that a $50 initial fee would be imposed for APS customers that had installed a smart meter and then chose to go back to an analog meter. It is anticipated that this new fee schedule will go into effect April 2015.
For more information, visit aps.com or call 800-253-9409.
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When are you going to get mad as hell? The info is out there. It’s not just Woodward and Baer and Sedona Smart Meter Awareness:
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Article Citations
[1] Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) “Data Privacy and Smart Meters,” page 2.
[2] Smart Grid Security: An End-to-End View of Security in the New Electrical Grid, by Gilbert N. Sorebo (Author), Michael C. Echols (Author), Michael Assante (Foreword); Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (December 5, 2011). Book available from amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439855870/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=JQVO0DK288NY&coliid=I3HT55J613FATM.
[3] U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO Report #GAO-11-117, “Electricity Grid Modernization.”
[4] Pew Research Center, October 2014, “Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase”; Expert Opinion of Andrew Chen, Associate Professor Computer Science at Minnesota State University-Moorhead; report available at: http://www.pewInternet.org/2014/10/29/cyber-attacks-likely-to-increase/.
In this report, “widespread harm” was defined as “significant loss of life or property losses/damage/theft at the levels of tens of billions of dollars.”
Video Credit Citations
National Geographic Channel, “American Blackout,” October 2013; refer to http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-blackout/
C-SPAN, November 20, 2014, “Cybersecurity Threats,” at http://www.c-span.org/video/?322853-1/hearing-cybersecurity-threats#ftag=YHFb1d24ec
WKYC TV in Cleveland, Ohio; “Investigator: Cyber attack bigger threat than Sandy,” at http://archive.wkyc.com/news/article/267320/45/Investigator-Cyber-attack-bigger-threat-than-Sandy
Former CIA Director James Woolsey at http://vimeo.com/27770029.
http://smartgridawareness.org/2014/12/30/hackers-can-now-harm-human-life/
IMO the “game changer” within city politics would have been support of Smart Meters from the Chamber of Commerce and Lodging Council.
All they need to do is #1 go to vulnerable (stupid?) city council; #2 have their way based on the premise “trust us” (no questions asked); #3 manipulate election to assure continuation of council people who will mind their manners and just say “yes” to their never-ending greed with no accountability.
So Smart Meters do all these bad things? So what? City priorities are judged simply by the demands of the controlling “regional” Chamber of Commerce: Jennifer Wesselhoff and Steve Segner.
To hell with the rest of us. And that’s the way it is.
@ Game Changer — all sarcasm aside, from just a publicity standpoint alone the City Council totally blew it by not standing up to APS and for residents by forbidding “smart” meters in Sedona. Even if a lawsuit ensued, it probably would have cost less than one year’s worth of the COC dole, and the subsequent publicity would have been phenomenal and way greater than any of the COC’s publicity efforts.
Playing the game with Sedona the SFD punted. Welcome boys and girls to local and national politics anti-firemen and SFD personnel style. You sold your integrity, health, families, community for what? What did you get in return? To exponentially die in greater numbers from cancers? That station antenna takes aim at the school and entire area. How many deaths will now be in your hands because you didn’t stand up like the Boston brothers? How many will be radiated by your attena ? You should’ve been the heroes we know you to be but instead you didn’t follow the science and got gamed. How’s that anti-union directive on cell towers on fire stations workin’ out for you? Giving away union power to a weak local government and private sector entity says bargain for more healthcare bennies that wouldn’t have been needed if you did the right thing. You & your families will need it.
http://images.edocket.azcc.gov/docketpdf/0000159518.pdf
Sedona Smart Meter Awareness
Nancy Baer and Monnie Ramsell
http://www.rappnews.com/2015/01/15/school-board-declines-cell-tower-lease-2/139129/
Hawaiian Electric asks PUC to dump net metering – January 27, 2015 | By Doug Peeples
Following in the footsteps of several mainland utilities, the Hawaiian Electric Company (HEI) has asked state regulators to eliminate the state’s net energy metering program. If authorized, the change would affect only new utility customers who install their own solar power systems. Customers who already have installed systems would continue with the current program.
Net metering programs allow residential solar owners to sell excess power they do not need to the electric utility.
The utility’s argument is a familiar one…read the article here
http://www.smartgridnews.com/story/hawaiian-electric-asks-puc-dump-net-metering/
Another “smart” meter fire has claimed a life — James Humphrey, Jr., a 74-year-old man in Dallas, Texas.
And in all likelihood, just like with HUNDREDS of other fires, the utility cartel will attempt to deflect blame.
Please join me in sending loving thoughts to James’ mourning family, and may we honour his memory by amplifying our commitment to bring awareness into the mainstream, enforce liability against those causing harm, and stop this dangerous for-profit global agenda.
Smart meter fire kills 74-year old man in Dallas, TX
http://www.takebackyourpower.net/news/2015/02/03/smart-meter-fire-kills-74-year-old-man-dallas-tx/
February 3, 2015
Article text by Monica Hernandez, ABC/WFAA