According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.
Remember kids: if you see something, no you didn’t. Move along and mind your business.
Damn right
Sounds like time to run either a food grow op or Folding@Home on a schedule to create false alarms
Are they fucking stupid? If your customer is in jail then they wont be giving you money for your product.
I keep several exotic pets and plants none of which are pot but even if it was mind your fucking business. it is none of your concern why my power bill is stupidly high.
I thought the LEDs use way less power than the grow lights of old, I guess not!
I have a number of indoor grow systems that have LED lights on a timer. I guess now I need to start worrying about the police raiding my house to seize my crop of lettuce and tomatoes.
Ideally, set up a battery and inverter system in your house, and turn the charging rate up or down depending on what other electric devices you are using at any given moment. Idea is to keep your power consumption exactly the same regardless of what you are doing at home. That way you give no information to the power company.
Would this monitoring not be on the total power consumption vs hourly/daily?
Who the hell grows indoors in California? It has the best climate for outdoor cannabis
This is a drawback to municipal power supply. Not that private companies all over the US haven’t also ratted out growers, but PG&E would fuckin never lol.
Another great reason to get solar panels
I’ve got friends who grow indoor, and have a pretty big solar array, and their PGE bill is still fucking high. You need hella batteries I guess, but those are expensive.
