Early this morning we were visited by a crew from the fraud division of Ede-Norte. It seems that one of our renters had set up a direct feed that was NOT going through his electic meter.
One of the experts on hand (the crew included an assistant prosecutor, an Army captain, a sergeant major and two corporals plus assorted technicians from Ede-Norte), told me how they discovered this.
It seems that in the areas covered by remote measurement ("tele-medici?n), the transformers have a meter that tell the Ede how much electricity is being consumed. Each and every electric meter sends the (can you believe this?) hourly consumption to the Ede. The sum of the individual meters should equal the reading of the electricity consumed. If it doesn't, then a red flag goes up and they investigate. Also, long term consumption is watched and if there are sudden and unexplained drops, they look into them.
You would think that there would be a nation-wide effort to install this system...
When I asked about areas such as El Ejido here in Santiago, where I know that nobody pays for electricity, he just said that they are just extending the prolonged blackouts even longer!! No money, no lights...I think people have to learn. Like cell phones. You pay you can talk...or the old Chinese laundry line: No tikee, no laundly...
Interesting way to start the day..
HB
One of the experts on hand (the crew included an assistant prosecutor, an Army captain, a sergeant major and two corporals plus assorted technicians from Ede-Norte), told me how they discovered this.
It seems that in the areas covered by remote measurement ("tele-medici?n), the transformers have a meter that tell the Ede how much electricity is being consumed. Each and every electric meter sends the (can you believe this?) hourly consumption to the Ede. The sum of the individual meters should equal the reading of the electricity consumed. If it doesn't, then a red flag goes up and they investigate. Also, long term consumption is watched and if there are sudden and unexplained drops, they look into them.
You would think that there would be a nation-wide effort to install this system...
When I asked about areas such as El Ejido here in Santiago, where I know that nobody pays for electricity, he just said that they are just extending the prolonged blackouts even longer!! No money, no lights...I think people have to learn. Like cell phones. You pay you can talk...or the old Chinese laundry line: No tikee, no laundly...
Interesting way to start the day..
HB