Reading my Meter

The electric meter records use in watt-hours. Your bill is based on how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity are used during the billing period.

• An electric meter is a continuous measuring device.
.


• To calculate the amount of energy used during a particular period (a day, a week or a month), subtract the read taken at the beginning of the period from the reading at the end of the period.



• This is similar to what you would do with your car's odometer to figure the length of a trip. The difference will be the total energy you have used.



• While some meters are digital, most meters have four or five dials.



• The dials move alternately in clockwise and counterclockwise fashion.



• When a hand on a dial is between numbers, always use the smaller number (remembering to use 9 when the hand is between 9 and 0).

Example meter dials are shown below to clarify how a meter is read: