After the service and before the electricity enters the structure, an electric meter is placed to record the amount of electricity being used by the customer.

The electricity is measured in Kilowatt hours and is what the customer is billed by. Some meters also measure what is called “demand” which will be covered later.

Metering is important because this is the main source of revenue for a utility. To pay for the power plant, the generation and the infrastructure we covered.

New age meters do more than just record kilowatt hour usage. The new generation of meters can report outages, report tampering, give live hour by hour usage reports and in some cases remotely turn on or off the power.

Meter upgrades such as the service we are providing help keep the meter reading accurate for the customer and the utility.