We’ve had the town assessor in our home exclaim ‘Oh?’ as soon as she saw the rack of servers in our basement. Went on asking a lot of questions about it. Yeah, she was expecting to see something entirely different.
Load balancing 
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Bro saying that since there are no more meter readers so it would be easy to steal is giving someone the wrong idea lol because you can’t easily steal electricity. Wish you could and get away with it back in the day. Hell I got books on hacking the old style meters somewhere. Just can’t do the things us old timers used to be able to man. Wasn’t trying to offend just give the info I have from an inside industry source
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I have had a bill 3 times higher than 75 of my nearest neighbors for years and years
pay your bill and no worries 
Con Ed is in the business of selling power buy it and they do not care
steal it and go to jail, fuck with the power start a fire and kill a fireman
you might get a date with sparky 
be safe and stay free
Dequilo
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same here, as long as you pay they don’t give a fuck. I worked for one if the biggest electrical suppliers in our country several years ago. I witnessed stuff you don’t want to witness. one time i got in trouble because I actual took time and helped a person on his contract and bills. the current bill went down from 3500,- to like 400,- euros which was the correct amount after fixing the errors the automatic system (!) put in… what a fucked up company though.
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I wouldn’t worry too much…man, if my pge bill was less than 300$ I’d do a happy dance 
And - I’ve come to the conclusion that if the government really is worried about ypu and what ypu do, the power bill is the least of ypur worries. We’re all worried about getting caught, but the sad fact is, the government knows exactly whats going on, no matter where, provided you’re on “the list”.
Us home growers, really aren’t on the radar. 
Even before I started growing I’m used to $350-500 monthly power bills lol if I ever saw a bill under 300 I’d pass out lol
is it that expensive in your country or do you heat with electricity too? I pay around 130,- for my house and don’t pay attention to anything. usually I even get something back at the end of the year.
Here in the USA (and the rest of the world) greed and the need for more $$ will always drive prices up.
Living in California, we just got used to the extreme costs, and BS that comes with living here.
They really did just turn us all into a bunch of renegades lol. 
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It’s not heat I have to worry about, maybe have to run the heat a month out of the year lol where I live it’s 90+f for 8 months of the year and in the 80s the rest of the time except for a couple weeks of winter. Hell I was on the beach watching bikinis frolic around on Christmas day a couple years ago lol. Takes a bit to keep 3000sqft at 73-74 degrees when it’s 100 outside
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I wouldn’t worry about a $300 bill lol that’s like one 1000w light and using basic electricity in a small house
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what’s their excuse? here they justify it by “network and building” costs. but if you ask for the calculation ,which is your right to have a look at, they won’t give it to you.
I think the popularity of cryptocurrency mining might have really made this an almost impossible metric by which to track cannabis production. I also think the more relaxed attitudes toward cannabis further make this a non-viable technique, in addition to more energy efficient LEDs. I think tracking power consumption might have been viable a while ago, at least in the U.S., but probably not now. This is just conjecture and supposition on my part. It would be exceptionally easy for the power company to gather that data, though.
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Oh no they publish the rates and times of peak and off peak hours and the different rates according to time off day and the month. I’ve learned to have my lights cycle so they are on in off peak hours so I’m not paying the premium for them anymore than I have to.
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I live in California I don’t have to worry about shit like that. I do get letters from the electric company showing how much electric I use compared to houses around
Me lol … I use leds and I don’t grow shit loads of weed 4-5 plants every grow but it’s a year round thing,now winter is here my electric bill goes up anyway since
My wife is Filipino she can’t handle the cold so my apartment is in the 70’s all winter
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I also get the numbers what I used with the bill, of course. what I mean is that the company must show you how they come to the price they are charging you. production, network and stuff will equal a certain amount of money per kwh. with this calculation one should be able to see that the prices they charge are straight up fraud. thats why they don’t show them unless a judge orders to. to not have to sent me the calculation they even agreed to leave my contract with the specs of four years ago and then let me out of the contract without any action on my side. I had similar encounters with telephone and gas companies. I may be on some kind of blacklist now lol
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We don’t have contacts here, you pay you get electricity you don’t pay you get nothing lol also if you’re late more than twice they double your deposit.
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Or just grow outdoors…lol…free everything.
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Who mines from 8am to 8pm everyday? Then stops are 60 days? Lol. I believe with smart meters they can see times.
They know
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Until someone finds your grow then it’s free weed for them lol. I’d love to do an outdoor but don’t know any place to accomplish this
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90 day fiance!!!
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