“Ultimately it will be able to communicate with, adjust, and turn on/off appliances in your home.”
There are as I said in another post options available if a person for some insane reason wants to allow the electric company to control their A/C useage in the peak hours of the Summer, but it isn’t in that alleged “Smart Meter”. It is a separate option that can be attached to your A/C. The only relation it has to your “Smart Meter” is that the “Smart Meter” records the electrical consumption/useage, or doesn’t the lack thereof.
Agree with you on the politicians, and that is key.
” if a person for some insane reason wants to allow the electric company to control their A/C useage in the peak hours of the Summer, but it isn’t in that alleged “Smart Meter”.”
New appliances will be mandated to interface with the Smartmeter. They’ll sell it as a feature.
That actually IS the direction they are headed.