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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.

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

"this one house has perfectly consistent power usage. That's suspicious"

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Would this monitoring not be on the total power consumption vs hourly/daily?

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