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Re:Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by Up ... by rossrubacon on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:05PM (#14045625)
I live in Ontario Canada and since the smart meter our electricity is up and we have gone crazy trying to lower it. i can not help but wounder if it uses the same faulty measurement methodology.

found this too https://stopsmartmeters.com.au/2017/03/31/university-study-e...

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Re:Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by Up ... by astrodust on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:49PM (#14046397)
You can take pictures of your physical meter's indicators and see if that matches up with your billed usage.

You could also test how accurate the meter is by measuring current on the main feed and doing some math.

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Re:Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by Up ... by rossrubacon on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:02PM (#14046828)
you have a link on this that will help a n00b like me figure this out
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Re:Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by Up ... by astrodust on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:15PM (#14047169)
http://www.hydroone.com/MyHome/MyAccount/MyMeter/Pages/ReadM...

Like that?

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