PG&E Customers Complain About New Smart Meters

A large number of PG&E customer in the San Francisco Bay Area have been complaining about errors (mainly over billing) with their new smart meters. 1,500 customers have complained, and when a local TV station visited one home owner who’s bill increased from $100 a month to $380 a month it found that the meter [...]

2006 and 2007 Peak Load Reduction from Demand Response

The total potential peak load reduction reported by entities for all regions and customer classes is 37,335 MW, up 26 percent from the 2006 FERC Survey results, and represents approximately five percent of the total forecasted U.S. peak demands for summer 2008 (752,579 MW), according to the 2008 FERC Demand Response and Advanced Metering Survey.