I tried setting mine up. We got the smart meter installed eight months ago (Orange County). SCE’s website still wasn’t up and running as of two months ago.
We moved, no Smart meter. Don’t know if the power company website is up and running.
Consider it another government bureaucratic boondoogle. My bill paid for the smart meter, mandated by the State and neither State nor the utility the petitioned for them provide the service to leverage the tool.
IMHO, if the Government and Utility is going to mandate the meters and then make us pay for them, the minimum should be that the tools and benefits we are supposedly going to get should be available to the first people put on the meters.
If you found a way for Google to get your info, please share. Is it secure? No, seriously. That’s a real question. Google is an external company and it is somehow assessing the grid, what controls are in place to insure that only the real inhabitants of the house and owner of the bill can review the information?
