Why is There a Media Black-Out on ‘Smart Grid’ and Mass Deployment of ‘Smart Meters’ Being Installed Across America?

September 28th, 2015

Awake Goy

Over the past several years a conspiracy of silence has
surrounded the implementation of the Smart Grid across the United
States, perhaps with good reason. If the public were aware of what lay
behind this agenda there would likely be considerable outcry and
resistance. ~ Prof. James F Tracy – Videos – Audio

“Smart meters” –the principal nodes of the Smart Grid network– are
being installed on homes and businesses by power utilities across the
United States under the legal and fiscal direction of the United States
government.

In December 2007 both houses of the US Congress passed and
President George W. Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA).

This 310-page piece of legislation employs the dubious science of
anthropogenic CO2-based climate change science to mandate an array of
policies, such as fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and “green”
energy initiatives.

Tucked away in the final pages of this law is the
description and de facto mandate for national implementation of the
Smart Grid that the Bush administration promised would result in “some
of the largest CO2 emission cuts in our nation’s history.”[1]

The bill unambiguously lays out the design and intent behind the
Smart Grid, including surveillance, tiered energy pricing, and energy
rationing for all US households and businesses through round-the-clock
monitoring of RFID-chipped “Energy Star” appliances.[2]

Congress and
“other stakeholders” (presumably for-profit utilities and an array of
Smart Grid technology patent holders[3] whose lobbyists co-wrote the
legislation) describe the Smart Grid’s characteristics and goals via ten
provisions.

(1) Increased use of digital information and controls technology to improve reliability, security, and efficiency of the electric grid.

(2) Dynamic optimization of grid operations and resources with full cyber-security.

(3) Deployment[4] and integration of distributed resources and generation, including renewable resources.

(4) Development and incorporation of demand response, demand-side resources, and energy efficiency resources.

(5) Deployment of “smart” technologies (real-time, automated,
interactive technologies that optimize the physical operation of
appliances and consumer devices) for metering, communications concerning
grid operations and status, and distribution automation.

(6) Integration of “smart” appliances and consumer devices.

(7) Deployment and integration of advanced electricity storage and peak-shaving technologies, including plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles, and thermal-storage air conditioning.

(8) Provision to consumers of timely information and control operations.

(9) Development of standards for communication and interoperability of appliances and equipment connected to the electric grid, including the infrastructure serving the grid.

(10) Identification and lowering of unreasonable or unnecessary
barriers to adoption of smart grid technologies, practices, and services
[emphases added].[5]

Less than two years after EISA’s enactment President Barack Obama
directed $3.4 billion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to
Smart Grid development.

Matching funds from the energy industry brought
the total initial Smart Grid investment to $8 billion.[6] The overall
completion of the Smart Grid will cost another $330 billion.[7]

Today a
majority of energy delivery throughout the US is routed to homes
equipped with smart meters that monitor power consumption on a
minute-to-minute basis.

As noted, the American public remains largely unaware of the numerous
designs and monied interests behind the Smart Grid–not to mention how
smart meters themselves pose substantial dangers to human health and
privacy.

This is because the plan for tiered energy pricing via wireless
monitoring of household appliances has been almost entirely excluded
from news media coverage since the EISA became law on December 19, 2007.

A LexisNexis search of US print news outlets for “Energy Independence
and Security Act” and “Smart Grid” between the dates December 1, 2007
to January 31, 2008 yields virtually no results.

An identical LexisNexis search of such media for the dates December
1, 2007 to February 18, 2015 retrieves a total 11 print news items
appearing in US dailies (seven in McClatchey Tribune papers; one article
appearing in each of the following: New York Times 8/14/08, Santa Fe New Mexican, 5/12/09, Providence Journal, 2/24/11, Tampa Bay Times, 12/13/12).[8]

Even this scant reportage scarcely begins to examine the implications of the EISA’s Smart Grid plan. The New York Times chose to confine its coverage to a 364-word article, “The 8th Annual Year in Ideas; Smart Grids.”

“It’s a response to what economists would call a tragedy of the commons,” the Times explains.

[P]eople use
as much energy as they are willing to pay for, without giving any
thought to how their use affects the overall amount of energy available …

Enter Xcel’s $100 million initiative, called SmartGridCity, a set of
technologies that give both energy providers and their customers more
control over power consumption …

Consumers, through a Web-enabled
control panel in their homes, are able to regulate their energy
consumption more closely – for example, setting their A.C. system to
automatically reduce power use during peak hours.[9]

News in far more modest papers likewise resembles the
promotional materials distributed by the utilities themselves.

“There
will soon be a time when homeowners can save electricity by having
appliances automatically adjust power for peak-demand times and other
periods of inactivity by a signal sent through the electrical outlet,”
an article in Sunbury Pennsylvania’s Daily Item reads.

“‘Right
now, it’s at the infant stage,'” a power company executive observes.
“‘We didn’t worry about this until two years ago. Nobody cared when
electricity was five cents per kilowatt hour. People just bit the bullet
and paid the bill.'”[10]

Along these lines, the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Patricia Hoffman,
is charged under the EISA with federal oversight of nationwide Smart
Grid implementation.

In other words, Hoffman is America’s “Smart Grid
Czar.” Yet despite heading up such a dubious program since 2010, she has
almost entirely escaped journalistic scrutiny, having been referenced
or quoted in only four US daily papers (Washington Post, 2/8/12, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 4/26/12, Palm Beach Post, 5/12/13, Pittsburgh Tribune Review 11/13/13) since her tenure began.

In an era where news media wax rhapsodic over new technologies and
fall over each other to report consumer-oriented “news you can use,” the
Smart Grid’s pending debut should be a major story. It’s not.

Indeed,
almost the entire US population remains in the dark about this major
technological development that will profoundly impact their lives.

When one more closely examines the implications and realities of the
federally-approved Smart Grid scheme-from the adverse health effects of
electromagnetic radiation to surveillance and energy rationing-there
should be little wonder why this degree of silence surrounds its
implementation.

Such a technocratic system would never be freely
accepted if subject to an open exchange and referendum.

Source

Electric companies are pushing customers to purchase Energy Star appliances even to the point of offering rebates. A program similar to ‘Cash for Clunkers’ will be offered too.

No idea what that program will cost taxpayers for ‘Energy Star’ refrigerators, stoves, microwave ovens, washers, dryers hot water tanks, dish washers, heaters, furnaces, air conditioners ect.

Obama’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’, a program to entice owners to get rid of their older vehicles, a con job program costing every taxpayer $24,000.00 per vehicle sold!

What they aren’t telling you is your appliances will litterally spy on you 24/7! Your power company will know when you are home, when you wakeup, when you shower, cook, do dishes, do laundry, watch TV, even when you go to bed all courtesy of your smart meter!

Source

The power company will know everything you use in your home and basically have record of your daily life. If you use incandescant light bulbs, the power company will know that too! Your smart meter is the spy and your appliances are the tattle-tale.

This will be life under the heavy foot of Agenda 21/Agenda 2030.

September 27, 2015 – KnowTheLies.com

Notes

[1] “Fact Sheet: Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,” whitehouse.gov, December 19, 2007.

[2] “ENERGY STAR is a U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voluntary program that helps
businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate through
superior energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR program was established by
EPA in 1992, under the authority of the Clean Air Act Section 103(g).” http://www.energystar.gov/about

[3] Jeff St. John, “Who’s Got the Most Smart Grid Patents?” greentechmedia.com, August 5, 2014.

[4] The word “deployment,” commonly
used in government and technical plans for the Smart Grid’s launch, is a
military term. From the Latin displicāre, “to scatter,” the modern
definition is “[t]o distribute (persons or forces) systematically or
strategically.”

[5] Public Law 110-140, Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, Title XIII, Section 1301, Washington DC: United States Congress, December 19,2007.

[6] “President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid,” energy.gov, October 27, 2009.

[7] Jon Chavez, “Expert Sees $2 Trillion Benefit For Country in Smart Grid,” Toledo Blade, January 16 2013.

[8] In contrast, seven times as many articles (78) appeared in law journals over the same seven year period.

[9] Clay Risen, “”The 8th Annual Year in Ideas; Smart Grids,” New York Times, December 14, 2008.

[10] Jaime North, “Devices Will Soon Monitor Themselves,” Daily Item, October 4, 2008.