utility obfuscation and obstruction [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

It is against the net metering law for a utility company to even ask a homeowner
about insurance. It was this specific kind of utility abuse and other abuses
that the net metering law was changed in 1998. You might want to give the REU
general manager a copy of the law.

Baran Galocy wrote:

> Yep!
>
> Redding Electric Utilities (REU - home of  the "how do we know that switch
> will perform to UL listings?" mentality)  Uses the utility disconnect.  As
> soon as they got wind that I had a building permit in hand, their top-flight
> desk-jockey "professional" engineer was at the jobsite - lock in hand, to
> lock me off of the grid.  That was two weeks ago.  They don't know how to
> handle the issue of the possibility of the homeowner discontinuing his
> homeowner's insurance policy so the customer is locked out until resolution.
> Of course I bypassed the disconnect for commissioning and a customer
> demonstration but I can not leave it that way.  Just when you think you have
> seen everything . . .
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