Reading Your Meters
Electricity Meters
If you learn to read your electric meter and regularly submit your own readings, it may result in more accurate readings than if your utility company estimates your consumption.- When reading your meter, read dials from right to left and record this information for your own reference. It's important to read in this direction because the reading of one dial will always affect the reading of the dial to its left. When a dial is between two numbers, choose the lower number. When the dial is between 9 and 0, think of the 0 as a 10. This means that 9 is the lowest number.
- Cost saving tip: Your meter dials work like a car's odometer. When a dial has made one full rotation, it will return to 0 (and the dial to the left will advance by one). If a dial isn't pointing exactly to 0, the dial hasn't made one full rotation. This means that, even if the dial to the left looks like it's pointing exactly to one number, it hasn't quite made it there. This is why it's important to read the meter from right to left.
Sample Reading:
The correct reading for this meter is 66649.
If you have questions about how to read your electricity meter, contact your utility company.
Natural Gas Meters
If you learn to read your natural gas meter and regularly submit your own readings, it may result in more accurate readings than if your utility company estimates your consumption.To read your meter, mark the exact position of each dial hand. When the dial hand is between two numbers, write the lower number, except when it's between 0 and 9, then use 9. DO NOT use the 1 Thousand dial. Submit your reading on the same date you read your meter.
If you have questions about how to read your natural gas meter, contact your gas company.
Sample Reading:
