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A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The average usage in California is 756 kWh per month* and police are called at 2700 kWh per month. I'm sure the energy company are wondering why the house is using 3 months energy in one month. It used to be 7000 kWh per month so it was probibly garinteed that rather they where in the wrong service (bussness and commercial rate) or its a grow house.

As mentioned elsewhere your house and the grid is not rated for this level of energy for long periods of time and ether the company cuts you off or your house burns down.

*https://www.solarinsure.com/average-cost-of-electricity-per-month-in-california

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How the hell do people usée over 700kwh per month on average? Do people leave their AC on 24/7 OE something ?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ac and server/gaming PCs. We live in Texas though

[–] Pazuzu@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As mentioned elsewhere your house and the grid is not rated for this level of energy for long periods of time and ether the company cuts you off or your house burns down.

A typical main breaker in the US is rated for 150 amps, general rule of thumb is breakers are safe for 80% of their rated load continuously. At 110v, that 150 amp panel is good for 13.2kw. Over a 30 day month that's 9,500 kwh.

Anyone using 7000kwh a month is likely on a 200 or 300 amp panel. By the same math above that's 12,700kwh and 19,000kwh.

7,000kwh is well within safe usage of a normal home under a uniform load, definitely so with a 2 or 300amp main breaker.

Ffs an electric car with a home fast charger pulls nearly 12kw on a single outlet. That plus a fridge and AC running in the house would be too much for a standard 150amp service.