How to Read Your Meter
Digital Meter
If you have a digital meter, just write the meter numbers in the boxes above "Mark if a digital meter" on the back of your monthly meter read letter. Report your findings through the toll-free Customer Service number or click the button below submit your reading online.
Analog Meter
Analog meters have a set of dials. Most gas meters have four dials, most electric meters have five:
How to read your analog meter
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In the spaces provided on the back of your meter read letter, mark the exact position of the hand in each dial.
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In the spaces below the dials, write the numbers for the corresponding dials. If the dial hand is between two numbers, write down the lower number. There is one exception however; if a dial hand is between 9 and 0, write down 9. If the hand is barely touching the bottom of a number or has not passed the midpoint of that number, use the lower number:
Examples
The reading above is 70:
The reading above is 69:
