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A family in Melbourne, Florida, is without power after Florida Power & Light says someone tampered with their electric meter, causing it to underreport electric usage.
What's known as "cable hooking" is the most used method. 80% of global power theft is by direct tapping from the line. The consumer taps into a power line from a point ahead of the energy meter. This energy consumption is unmeasured and procured with or without switches. [citation needed] It can cause severe electric shock or fire outbreak.
The data collected by FIRMS are presented as a free web mapping service, with the active fire locations if any overlaid on a map. [1] The detections are displayed on top of a static background layer and each visualized detection is clickable to display its data, such as detection time, coordinates, satellite and instrument.
The new technology promises more accurate natural gas readings and new safety measures. But some critics say they’re not worth the cost.
The term smart meter often refers to an electricity meter, but it also may mean a device measuring natural gas, water or district heating consumption. [1] [2] More generally, a smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor.
Check out these trackers to see and report outages that may happen during Hurricane Milton.
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), the principal subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. (formerly FPL Group, Inc.), is the largest power utility in Florida. [2] It is a Juno Beach, Florida -based power utility company serving roughly 5 million customers and 11 million people in Florida .
Florida power outage map As of Monday morning, roughly 460,000 businesses and homes in Florida remained without power, according to the USA TODAY power outage tracker .