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.
This is a drawback to municipal power supply. Not that private companies all over the US haven’t also ratted out growers, but PG&E would fuckin never lol.
Another great reason to get solar panels
I’ve got friends who grow indoor, and have a pretty big solar array, and their PGE bill is still fucking high. You need hella batteries I guess, but those are expensive.