Using radio frequencies, this electricity meter communicates remotely with electricity suppliers. A technology that scares the electrosensitive.
The new Linky electricity meters are coming to our homes. By the end of the year, more than 3 million of these smart meters will be installed, and “by 2021, 35 million meters should be replaced”, indicates ERDF, a subsidiary of EDF on its website.
This deployment over the whole of the territory was wanted by the public authorities when the law on genetic transition was passed. A decision that delights EDF and other electricity suppliers. Electrosensitive, much less.
Because the particularity of this new meter is its ability to communicate with energy suppliers. Linky sends and receives information on electricity consumption without the intervention of a technician. Remote control made possible by radio frequencies emitted by the electrical network and the box. This will also be connected to all electrical and household objects in the house.
Expertise demanded
A forced march. Indeed, all the French houses will shine since it will not be possible to refuse the replacement of old meters. And this is what frightens the associations of electrosensitive who note that this technology has never been evaluated. In addition, the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by Linky have been considered since 2011 as potentially carcinogenic to humans.
An argument to which the Directorate General of Health (DGS) was sensitive. This Tuesday, October 7, she told theassociation Priartém and Electrosensibles de France have contacted the National Health Security Agency (ANSES) in order to draw up a scientific inventory of the radiation emitted by Linky. In addition, “The DGS has undertaken to ask ERDF not to deploy Linky in electrosensitive people”, reports Manuel Hervouet, founder of the Électrosensibles de France collective.
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