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My electric company started about 1 1/2 years ago reading my electric meters from their central office. My bills seem to be getting higher. Is this accurate and how do they do that? Ken Sweet
My electric company started about 1 1/2 years ago reading my electric meters from their central office. My bills seem to be getting higher. Is this accurate and how do they do that? Ken Sweet
They may be reading by radio waves, however, about 3 weeks ago, our power went out at the shop and I called in the outage. They got my meter # from me and told me exactly the time down to the minute and second it went off. In addition, she said she just ran a check and I had power coming to the meter and the problem was on my side of the meter. Upon further investigation, she was correct, I had a old "Pole top Disconnect" that had lost electrical connection. How do they do that from the office? Ken Sweet
Our power company switched to a digital meter that is read by radio a few years ago. What really annoyed me is that we wanted this service when we built the house since the meter reader has to get past a gate and then go to the meter at the back of the house.
They had the equipment to read the meter remotely over the phone lines but they would require us to pay an extra $10 a month. Which we refused to do.
Eventually they put in the digital meter and all is well. Sure saves them some money.
My guess is that on Sweet's meter they knew power was up on the lines but they could not see his meter. So it was likely the problem was between the meter and the lines.
There is a local company that makes "smart meters" that has been hiring dozens and dozens of people. I get how the digital meter being read remotely is a good thing but other than that I don't see any advantage for us.
Our power bill has been the same with the analog and digital meters. I have tracked every power bill we have had since we moved into the house. This summer has been HOT for a LONG time. We had one record setting power bill for the summer but our highest bill was over our first winter.
Later,
Dan
This last bill for $413 is what has me thinking? Ken Sweet
They may be reading by radio waves, however, about 3 weeks ago, our power went out at the shop and I called in the outage. They got my meter # from me and told me exactly the time down to the minute and second it went off. In addition, she said she just ran a check and I had power coming to the meter and the problem was on my side of the meter. Upon further investigation, she was correct, I had a old "Pole top Disconnect" that had lost electrical connection. How do they do that from the office? Ken Sweet