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Gone
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Fort Erie, ON

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Re: Cost of smart meters vs analog meters

said by btech805:

Municipalities will soon introduce "peak" usage like hydro.

No they won't. And they won't for gas, either. There are reasons why peak timing makes sense for hydro, and those reasons do not extend to water or gas.
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said by Gone:

said by btech805:

Municipalities will soon introduce "peak" usage like hydro.

No they won't. And they won't for gas, either. There are reasons why peak timing makes sense for hydro, and those reasons do not extend to water or gas.

Who said they need a practical reason for peek usage metrics to find a way to gouge customers.

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The cost of each individual municipality to implement their own billing system to handle it would be reason alone for it to never happen. The hydro companies would have never done it either if the province didn't force them into it.