Did You Know? 11-03-2011

You can report your own electric meter reading to the utility each month. Your monthly electric utility bill isn't based on an actual meter reading every month. Actual meter readings are not performed every month unless there is a smart meter installed at your location. The mechanical electric meters that have been used for decades require a utility to send out a meter reader to your location to get a reading. Due to weather conditions and a variety of other circumstances the utilities are unable to send out a meter reader to check every meter each month. So, the utilities estimate your consumption based on past usage in those months. Sometimes the results are shocking when you get a large bill the next month in which an actual reading is performed if the estimate was inaccurate. Eliminate those shocking bills and report your own readings each month to ensure your bill is always accurate.