What is metering?

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why is it important?

• 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.

Basic Concepts of Metering

An electric meter is used to measure the electrical usage of a customer. The meter measures in what is called kilowatt hours which is the measurement of 1000 watts for one hour. If you used 10 kilowatt hour bulbs for 10 hours you would have used 1 kilowatt hour. The utility uses the accumulated kilowatt hours registered on the meter for a month multiplied by the kilowatt hour rate to generate a bill providing revenue for the utility.

Meter can type/style

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Meter Mounting Examples