1 - yes
2 - I’m reading mine off the meter itself. The power company here isn’t as smart as the meter.
3 - awareness is everything - it’s helping save. I have an SMA solar inverter that I’m querying with a python script from a raspberry pi3, so I can log power the inverter generates - I compare that with the Lectrickery company smart meter, but of course it is net not gross and comparison is manual readings, so the full picture needs to be compiled. I’m looking into getting my own check meter, something that will give ‘trade grade’ metering and allow me to hit the raw metering data over the network with something like MODBUS/etc.
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