Ontario's environmental regulator says the province does not know if its hydropower smart meters have any impact on power protection.
Given that the Ontario government plans to install electricity meters in each home and apartment in the province, this report may be controversial.
These meters should allow utilities to charge consumers different electricity bills at different times of the day: high prices during peak hours, low prices during off-peak hourspeak times.
The problem, the Ontario Environment Commissioner said, is that there is no evidence that smart meters have any impact on consumption patterns.
"Price, set half
The Ontario energy commission does not have actual data each year based on how price levels affect customer consumption. [Time of use]
The price should contain this real
"World information is for the maximum protection of humanity," Gord Miller said in a press release accompanying the annual report . ".
Overall, Ontario's energy-saving measures are "substantial, but incomplete," he said, and take smart meters as an example.
On Wednesday, Mill told reporters at Queen's Park that "not just how much energy [is] impossible to say
Smart meter is
But what is the changed usage pattern so that we can set the price on some logical basis.
Miller said he was worried that electricity usage would continue to surge in hot summer.
He called it the "peak issue ".
If this continues, Ontario will need to build controversial, costly power plants to cope with peak demand, Miller said.
His advice is not suitable for most consumers: make water and electricity more expensive during peak hours.
"I think the reward for using a power outage --
The peak should be larger, penalties for using power-
"The peak should also be bigger," Miller said . ".
Before the Ontario Electric Power Authority handled the impact of smart meters, Miller said setting a different timeof-
Using the price is just a guess.
Progressive Conservatives say this confirms their claim that smart meters are "nothing more than tax machines", forcing people to wash their clothes and do other household chores at night and early in the morning to get the lowest electricity price.