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READING
OF ELECTRIC METER
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A meter
reader will read the customer’s electric meter each month.
The bill will be mailed several days after it is read, but it will
show the day the meter was read. It will also show the previous
month’s reading. This will be subtracted from the current reading
to get the current usage. The readings are not set back to zero.
The meter keeps accumulating a record of your usage (similar to
an odometer). If an error is made in the meter reading, the mistake
will automatically correct itself next month. Please contact AEC’s
consumer accounts department if you feel that the electric meter
has been misread at extension 1820.
Reading
Your Own Meter
Most
electric meters have four or five dials. The pointers on each
dial move in alternate directions. On a five-dial meter, the
first, third, and fifth dials move clockwise, the second and
fourth dials move counter clockwise. In every case, the reading
for the dial is the smaller number which the pointer passed.
The reading for the meter illustrated below is 66649 kilowatt
hours. If a month later your meter reads 67461, your electric
consumption for the month would be a difference between 66649
and 67461, or 812 kilowatt hours. (A kilowatt hour is equal
to using 1000 watts of power for one hour.)
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METER
ACCURACY
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In
almost every case of a meter being inaccurate, it slows down rather
than increases in speed. Like any other machine, it tends to slow
down as it ages, corrodes and collects dirt. An electric meter is
a precision-crafted instrument.
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METER
TEST
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AEC
will at its own expense, make periodic tests and inspections of
its meters in order to maintain a high standard of accuracy. AEC
will make additional tests or inspections of its meters at the request
of the customer. If tests made at the customer’s request show
that the meter is accurate within two percent (2%), slow or fast,
no adjustment will be made in the customer’s bill, and a testing
charge of not less than thirty dollars ($30.00)* per meter will
be paid by the customer. In case the test shows the meter to be
in excess of two percent (2%), fast or slow, an adjustment shall
be made in the customer’s bill over a period of not over sixty
(60) days prior to date of such test, and cost of making test shall
be borne by AEC.
*Charges
subject to change without notice.
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RIGHT
OF ACCESS
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AEC’s
identified employees shall have access to customer’s premises
at all reasonable times for the purpose of reading meters, testing,
repairing, removing or exchanging any or all equipment belonging
to AEC. Any property owner installing a locking system for his property
will be required to allow AEC to install their master lock in the
gate or chain. Failing to cooperate in this matter is a violation
of your contract with AEC for electric service and may be cause
for discontinuance of electric service.
Customer's
Responsibility For AEC’s Property
All
meters, service connections, and other equipment furnished by AEC
shall be, and remain, the property of AEC. The customer shall provide
a space for and exercise proper care to protect the property of
AEC on its premises, and, in the event of loss or damage to AEC’s
property or persons arising from neglect of a customer to care for
same, the customer shall indemnify AEC or any other person against
death, injury, loss or damage resulting therefrom, including but
not limited to AEC’s cost of repairing, replacing or relocating
any such facilities and its loss, if any, of revenues resulting
from the failure or defective functioning of its metering equipment.
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