BC Government Report: ‘Smart Meters Will “Reveal Patterns of Household Consumption and Information About Customers’ Daily Lives”
Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 3:00 AM
The Last Post By The P/Oed Patriot
According to an article on CBC News, a Government report released by British Columbia’s Commissioner from the Office of Information and Privacy, Elizabeth Denham, says that Smart Meters will collect personal information about people’s daily lives:
“Denham said that hourly power use updates would reveal patterns of household consumption and information about customers’ daily lives..”
This report was a result of an investigation started by 600 complaints about privacy concerns when the local power company, BC Hydro, announced it was going to replace the old analog meters with new ‘Smart Meters’.
Energy Consumers in British Columbia are not the only ones who should have privacy concerns when it comes to the Smart Meters and the Smart Grid. The United States has come a long way in ensuring that their Smart Grid will be just as intrusive, if not more, when it comes to collecting information on the daily lives of average Americans.
In 2010, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a part of the Executive Branch agency called the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST), requested that the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) (Consisting of 300 + Energy Producers and Distributers) in conjuction with the EPA, create a document listing the standards for the type of information that will be collected through the Smart Grid. That document is called the NAESB Energy Usage Information Model or Priority Action Plan 10 (PAP-10).
On Page 9 of PAP-10 listed under ‘kind of reading’ alongside normal readings that will be tracked through the Smart Grid like voltage, date and time are the not so normal readings such as carbon and carbonDioxide.
On Page 11 of PAP-10 listed under the ‘kind of services’ that will be tracked through the Smart Grid is this (Click to enlarge):
As you can see PAP-10 calls for the tracking of everything from your TV, gas, water, heat (Includes Hot Water and Steam), refuse (trash), sewerage, internet, TvLiscense & cold (Includes chilled water and ice) through the Smart Grid. If you want a detailed explaination of these catagories click Here.
In February of 2011, the SGIP voted to recommend PAP-10 as the standards of information that should be collected through the Smart Grid, and it was approved.
On June 13th, 2011 the Obama administration and the NIST released a document titled: “A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future”. This was the Obama administration’s blueprint for accelerating the creation of the Smart Grid.
On Page 42 of this document it states:
“The Priority Action Plan 10 (PAP 10) of the NIST-initiated Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP 2011) provides a standardized model for exchanging energy usage and cost information between different parties and devices and is the basis for information exchange directly from the meter to household devices, as well as from utility back office systems to authorized third parties.
The above principles provide valuable guidance as to how state regulators can support consumers’efforts to direct the secure transfer of data from utilities to third-parties,…”
In other words the Obama administration was recommending that PAP-10 be adopted as an official standard for the type of information that should be collected through the Smart Grid, little did we know Obama would soon get his wish.
On August 1, 2011 a ‘panel of Government and Industry representatives’, aka the SGIP, approved the first 6 standards for the Smart Grid posted as the ‘Catalog of Standards Library’ on the SGIP website.
Listed as the 2nd Standard in the Catalog of Standards Library is a link titled:
“NAESB REQ18/WEQ19: Energy Usage Information”
If you click on that link your will see a document titled:
“SGIP CoS: NAESB PAP10 Energy Usage Information”
What does that mean?
That means Ladies and Gentelmen that this ‘paranoia’ about the destruction of your privacy through the Smart Grid is not a ‘tin foil hat’ conspiracy but is indeed reality since the 2nd Standard Officially adopted by the SGIP for the Smart Grid is PAP-10. The document that shows all of the information that will be tracked though the Smart Grid which, as you can see includes ice, cold and hot water, TV and even CO2.
So in May of 2008 when we all laughed because President Obama said:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times..”
Little did we realize he was talking about the Smart Grid and Electric Vehicles and that he was going to make it all happen.
Funny, we are not laughing now.
If you have anymore questions about the Smart Grid you can reach me through my email which is listed on my blog.
Since this is my last article (I apologise for the length of it) that I will write for the Gateway Pundit, I want to take this time to Thank Jim and all of you, his readers, for tolerating my style of blogging and for graciously accepting me and my fellow Guest Bloggers with compasion and understanding.
It has been a pleasure and an honor to try and entertain and inform you in his absence.
Till We Meet Again,
Patch W Adams
The P/Oed Patriot
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Wow man commented:
That is insane really? What the hell is TV Liscense?
squeaky commented:
a duel use tool that can be used for good or bad – depending on who has the control. especially if they feel the general populace can’t be trusted to make the right choices. they’ll just help you….especially in our new 2 sets of rules world…this was one of the 1st shots across the bow
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/03/obama-getting-heat-turning-oval-office-thermostat/
RedBeard commented:
Don’t worry so much about this. Oceania is Utopia.
http://youtu.be/2piiBafkjVY
potkas7 commented:
People pay nearly every bill using a credit card. They drive a car with a tollbooth transponder affixed to their windshield. They never leave home without clipping a tracking device – their cellphone – to their belt. A transmitter that connects automatically to every cell tower they pass leaving a record of their movements. They post every bit of their most revealing personal information on Facebook. And now they want to complain about an electric meter invading their privacy? Get real!
RedBeard commented:
Potkas, I’m confused. Seems that you think that those other invasions of privacy should somehow keep us from being concerned about this new one. Isn’t that a bit like saying that we shouldn’t be concerned about the newer threat of electronic identity theft because embezzling, forgery, carjackings, liquor store holdups, and bank robberies have been going on regularly?
Molon Labe commented:
#5
Poor idiot. Many people do not have cellphones and credit cards and the government does not mandate their use. But you do not seem to realize this. But utilizing your logic if you have a cellphone you would care if the government recorded all your calls now would you?
Course you wouldn’t.
apodoca commented:
Worse than all of this is their ability to turn off the thermostat regulating the utilities YOU are paying for. My recently deceased mother went through a period in which she was very very cold so we suffered the heater to be on and roaring while it was warm outside. Of course, we paid our bills. Nevertheless, many a time we found our thermostat off, causing her to complain that somebody was jacking with it. Nobody but Obama’s friends was.
squeaky commented:
“Many people do not have cellphones” the government is busily working on that as we speak. blanket mailing on maybe a new player in the game “assure” and i noticed i wasn’t eligible for the free phone, etc because i’m not on any government programs. it’s that word “FREE”.
squeaky commented:
“..ability to turn off the thermostat regulating the utilities YOU are paying for. My recently deceased..” and that’s what it is. i noticed an ad at one time concerning on-star and the benefit of being able to disable your car if it’s stolen, etc and considered this in the wrong hands.
squeaky commented:
[ Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next..."] now this seems to work and given the amount of time he lived in chicago you would think he was accliminated to the cold. he can do it because he can do it.
John Fembup commented:
The threat of a smart meter is not to track your use of energy or the use of energy-consuming devices in your home.
The threat is that the smart meter will eventually enable regulation or limitation of your use of energy and perhaps even to tax the presence of certain non-favored devices you own.
Obama said “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.”
He means YOU can’t. Of course, he can. This bud’s for YOU.
The P/Oed Patriot commented:
Yes there is alot more to The Smart Grid than the information that will be collected through it, such as the Demand Response Technology. But I didn’t want to write a book long article that no one will read. So I chose to discuss and prove what information will be collected through it in the hopes people will be angeredand motivated enough to find out more about it. I have been researching the Smart Grid for over 3 years and can’t possibly fit all of the information in one short article. It is a central part of the plan to Green the U.S. economy and is centered around Global Warming. This article is just the tip of the iceburg.
Prof Mandrake commented:
Big Government wants to eat your children!!!
EPA is now your slave master !!
Get in line !
Complainers will be dealt with harshly !
Sasja commented:
P/Oed Patriot. Very informative. We already have the Smart Grid in OKC. Don’t know what can be done about it now except voice concerns to our legislature and Corporation Commission (which seem to rubber stamp whatever the power companies want to do).
I would like to wish you, and yours, a very Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This next year, for good or ill, promises to be interesting indeed.
Michael commented:
Its BC Hydro not DC Hydro……………
The P/Oed Patriot commented:
Sasja the best thing we can do is not only complain but be sure we don’t continue to elect those who believe in Global Warming. The plan that involves the Smart Grid is on a 10 year time frame and we are almost 4 years into that plan. Politicans who believe in Global Warming will see this as nothing but a way to save our planetby controlling your individual CO2 production instead of the invasion of privacy and totalitarian control it really is. Thank You for the Christmas greetings and I also wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Paz commented:
There’s gotta be a way to fake it.. right now a magnet on the meter works haha.
The P/Oed Patriot commented:
Lol Michael there are a few typos.. I just noticed them myself. Nothing I can do until much later. Thanks though missed that one.
Uncle Monkey commented:
Soon political affiliation and reading material (type) will be added to the list.
gee! commented:
smart-meters are just another tool of Big-Brother…………Invasion privacy…………what about the danger of RF radration after long periods of exposure can damage your body……….just sayin
bronxdude commented:
Beck was talking about that like… 2 years ago? 3? I was like “I love this dude, but come on!”
And now here it is…
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
What’s that “tvLicence” crap? This isn’t the UK.
averagemelon commented:
How many ways are there to make your own electricity?
Miguel commented:
It’s BC Hydro, not DC Hydro. Someone has DC on the brain.
Galt commented:
Yea miguel that has already been pointed out. Might have seen that if you read the comments. Glad that is all you got out of it, that the author made some typos.
dunce commented:
Smart meters allow the power company to cut individual customers off. For instance consider who might be cut off in Las Vegas when there is a power shortage, the casinos or residential areas? It is perfectly possible with computers to load voter registration lists into the program and selectively cut power to political opponents. But they are not controlled by the govt. you say, have you heard of the TVA? Plus every state has public utility commission that controls nearly every thing a utility does.
Galt commented:
Yea Vince the industry just happens to be working with the Gov. The Gov doesn’t need to control them since they are partners do they? Does no one read anymore or do they just look for typos and then comment without following links? I read this and read all the links…. its clear what is happening to those who bother to look.
Mr. Widemouth commented:
Smart Meters – something to be afraid of? http://www.squidoo.com/beware-of-smart-meters
BS61 commented:
My sister works for our local electric company and said there is not enough data warehouse or mainframes to make this a reality. They have no plans to do this at all. She’s a programmer there and unless they have a top secret programming team, it’s not happening!
manitoban commented:
The fact there were such fundamental typographic errors means there was zero editorial oversight and fact checking. This calls into question every other fact claimed. But more to the point, this rings of conspiracy theorist nonsense. Why was the BC stuff even mentioned, let alone be in the headline? It seems like it was merely a launching pad to justify a near immediate switch of focus on to concerns in the US. More to the point, I simply don’t care if they know when I turn my lights on. If they like, they can call me up, and I’ll tell them when I play nintendo, and when I run my particle accelerator.
Galt commented:
Manitoban its a blog they usually don’t have editors and just because it sounds like a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Did you even read the links or is this just too hard to wrap your small head around? Also the stories tie in because its about security the main story was used as a segway into the more relavant story about the things that concern people in the US. Hell I can see it, bury your head in the sand if you like no one will mind or maybe that isn’t sand you have your head in.
west129 commented:
Smart Grid is a very smart way to call something what it is not and then hide behind it.
Of course, we don’t want to fall behind Europe where this gimmickry is well established. There, you want to heat your water; you have the choice to do that during the night at reduced electric rates or anytime during the day at a cost of 60 cent per kWh. The cost charged for different utilizations will force compliance unless you are part of the exempt elite. Remember, didn’t you already agree to take the $25 bribe from the utility company for the magic box they installed at your air-conditioning unit to turn it off when you need it most? And how many free poisonous spaghetti bulbs did they (the government) send you as a publicity stunt to soften your hart and win you over to their side?
It is not the “Smart Grid” that is smart but those who named it, in hopes to make it less personal and readily acceptable for the dumb masses thinking that it is the latest and greatest technological invention that is not only hip but most certainly will save our world from the imaginary threat of a CO2 poisoning.
However, those familiar with power consumption, production and distribution know it’s all about how to match/balance the demand with the dwindling supply. Since supplies are being aggressively and severely reduced (EPA is working on shutting coal powered plants down) somebody needs to have the authority to tell the consumer what they are permitted to have connected to the grid during each hour of the day. Since this will be a “smart grid” or more correctly a smart government it will make those decisions for us so that it will be accomplished in the fairest and most equitably way for all of us.
Therefore, we need to welcome this progressive solution with open arms! To those who think their own well being and selfishness supersedes the collective needs, be aware, the Smart Grid will guarantee fair and strict compliance: Keep in mind, that first we have to save power/electricity because we cannot cover the entire globe with solar panels and wind mills and second, we have to get those life saving green inventions like the electric cars fully implemented. Everyone will have to make sacrifices if we want to have the electricity to charge our cars for 8 hours during the night.
If you don’t want to sacrifice, I find nothing wrong disconnecting you from the Smart Grid. Then, in the morning, after taking a cold shower, you just walk where you need to go! It’s the only fair thing to do, isn’t it?