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At the time of their arrest, Tom Glass, a leader of Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group, said that it wasn't even about smart meters anymore. “This has little to do with smart meters now,” Glass said last year. “This is about an overbearing government.”

Last Monday evening, more than 20 residents spoke out at the city council meeting of this San Antonio, Texas, suburb where municipal utility CPS Energy plans an imminent installation of smart meters.  After hearing from dozens of residents, the city council voted during closed session to send a letter to CPS asking for a 1 year moratorium on any smart meter installations within the city. 

This article highlights a portion of a recent program on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. The program aired on Saturday, September 27, 2014, on KPFK in California.  About 15 minutes were devoted to the issue of smart meters, focusing primarily on the aspect of invasion of privacy.

It is not a surprise that when Sensus investigated its own 'smart' meter products, it found that its meters were not the cause of the fires and property damage. What caught our attention, however, was this admission (notwithstanding the somewhat ambiguous pronoun reference): "Our experience has shown that these issues are systemic in the industry." Are they referring to the 'smart' meter fires or to something else? You decide.

Nevada state regulators decided Monday to launch a preliminary investigation into whether the 1.1 million smart meters installed on homes across the state by NV Energy pose a fire danger, demanding the utility turn over data on meter failures, the number of fires associated with the meters, any lawsuits involving the meters and internal investigation documents on meter fires.

After recently reporting on smart meter-related fires in Australia, Canada, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Florida, the latest reports are coming out of Nevada.  This appears to be a continuation of the “Domino Effect” described at this website in late August.

Installing smart meters in every house in the UK will save consumers "only 2%" on their annual bills, a committee of MPs has warned. The Committee also said that some of the technology is likely to be out of date by the time it is installed.

Quebec activist Jean Hudon brings us news that 111 municipalities in Quebec have now called for a moratorium and/or free opt-out of “smart” meters: This news comes amidst Quebec’s emerging overbilling scandal and fire-related recalls throughout North America – An anonymous APS whistleblower in Arizona leaked that 50 to 60 thousand faulty “smart” meters are being replaced.

Smart meters, which enable utilities to communicate wirelessly with home energy systems, are being criticized for invading home owners' privacy and, in some cases, starting fires. Utilities across the U.S. and Canada are deploying smart meters in the homes of customers. The utilities argue that smart meters improve the efficiency of energy delivery and consumption, as well as eliminating the cost of manual meter reading.

The 75-page report is likely the most comprehensive document of its kind on the topic of smart meter privacy invasions. Through a step-by-step logical approach, it is demonstrated that the collection of incremental energy-related data for residential electric customers using smart meters represents an unreasonable invasion of privacy and, for applicable jurisdictions, constitutes an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.