I don't think I've ever heard of something like that happening with smart meters? But anyhow, the possibility of doing without large scale utilities would be quite difficult to pull off until energy blockchains become much more widespread. But then again, you would still need to transmit the electrical energy across large geographical distances, and someone has to build and maintain the distribution network for it...
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