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Staying Safe with Electricity
Electricity makes everyday life more comfortable and convenient. During the safest of times, it should always be handled with care, but in situations including fallen power lines, malfunctioning appliances, or overhead work, taking the right steps for safety can save your life. Stay safe with these tips:
Staying Safe at Home and Indoors
Allow only qualified individuals to repair, maintain or operate electrical equipment.
Stay away from water when using electrical equipment.
Do not touch electric appliances with wet hands or a metal object.
Keep electrical cords away from…
Q3 2016 - July 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016
A. Gas and Electric Through Q3 2016
Electric
1,439,129
Gas
885,433
Total
2,324,559
B. Percent of Bills Estimated (3rd quarter of 2016)
Estimate Rate for Electric Smart Meter billed accounts:
0.08%
Estimate Rate for Gas Smart Meter billed accounts:
0.15%
C. Smart Meter Website (3rd quarter of 2016)
Smart Meter website visits:
13,495 Unique Visits
Q2 2016 – April 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016
A. Gas and electric thru end of Q2 2016
Electric
1,436,159
Gas
883,631
Total
2,319,790
B.…
Electric Line Safety
Financing Options to Help You Pay for Energy-Efficient Upgrades
If you’re the owner of a single-family residence, you may qualify for affordable financing for improvements, upgrades and certain new appliances. GoGreen Home Energy Financing provides attractive financing options to help residential customers realize greater potential from their personal earnings. If you’re approved, participating GoGreen Home lenders can offer you loans with favorable rates and terms.
All improvements financed through GoGreen Home lenders must include eligible energy-efficiency measures (EEEMS) for at least 70% of the total construction scope of work. The remaining 30% can be used to finance non-energy home improvements.
Examples of eligible products include:
HVAC (split, package, heat pump, evap cooler, furnace, repair)
Water heating (tankless and storage)…
Get the Facts About Electric and Magnetic Fields
In recent years, everyone from scientists to everyday people haves started questioning if there’s a link between exposure to electric and magnetic fields (EMF) and serious health problems, including cancer. And no one is more concerned about it than all of us at SDG&E.
Scientific Studies and Reviews
Thousands of studies on this subject have been done throughout the world, with results inconclusive and hard to understand results. A number of internationally recognized scientific organizations and independent regulatory advisory groups have conducted scientific reviews of the EMF research literature.
Conclusions
Without exception, these major reviews have reported that the data do not demonstrate that exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields causes cancer or other health risks, although…
Radio Frequency Concerns for Smart Meter Products
The Itron OpenWay® technology and products chosen by SDG&E fully comply with U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines for human exposure to radio frequency (RF) energy. In addition, the FCC recently confirmed that current smart meter installations (including those for multiple meters at a site) comply with FCC radio frequency exposure limits. Smart meters operate in two ranges (bands) of frequencies*:
900 megahertz (MHz) band—slightly above those used by some of the cellular telephone carriers
2.4 gigahertz (GHz) band—the same range where WiFi and many cordless phones operate
These bands include the same FCC-approved frequencies that have been used for many years in other devices such as baby monitors, remote controlled toys and medical monitors.
Smart Meter Data…
For Your Information: Scientific Reviews on EMF
Numerous internationally recognized scientific organizations and independent regulatory advisory groups have conducted scientific reviews of the EMF research literature. It is their ability to bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to review the full body of research on this complex issue, that gives their reports the credibility and recognition they have received.
Review Conclusions
Without exception, these major reviews have reported that the body of data, as large as it is, does not demonstrate that exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields causes cancer or other health risks, although the possibility cannot be dismissed. The weakness of the reported associations, the lack of consistency and the severe limitations in exposure assessment in the epidemiology studies together with the…
From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Electric and Magnetic Fields*
Questions and answers about EMF*
From the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
EMFs in the workplace*
Los EMF in el lugar de trabajo* En Español
From the World Health Organization (WHO)
Exposure to extremely low frequency fields* (Fact Sheet No. 322)
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity* (Fact Sheet No. 296)
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health* (Fact Sheet No. 205)
Physical properties and effects on biological systems* (Fact Sheet No. 182)
Campos electromagneticos y salud publica* En Español
Standards and Guidelines*
Glossary
California Department of Health Services EMF Glossary*
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