Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger
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, DC 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:
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,…”
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 destrcution 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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