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Old 11-23-2014, 01:40 PM
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Indydeal maker, I am sure you are being facetious, but having spent 40 plus years in the electric utility industry, I think I can state that the utilities are not interested in limiting your power use. Doing this would LOWER the bill, since they are paid on kw used. Comcast is paid period, and does not charge for the number of bits/bytes that are transmitted, therefore throttling does not impact their bills or profit, but frees bandwidth for other uses.

There are also several practical reasons why electricity cannot be "throttled". Having stated this, there are meters that have been installed in some locations that can be remotely turned off for non payment of bills. These are very few, and I know of only 2-3 utilities that were using the capability.

I am just trying to stop a possible rumor before it takes root and spreads.
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