A high-tech $450,000 electric meter system will replace the need for meter readers in Olyphant. Known as advance metering infrastructure, the new meters automatically will transmit electricity usage ...

The continued integration of electricity meter functionality into a single chip solution promises to increase and expand the feature set of the meter as well as to help control manufacturing costs.

Culpeper Light and Power crews began changing electric meters last week in preparations for the automated reader system, which will allow for remote water and electric meter readings. As part of the ...

The electric meter reader could quickly become a relic of the past as Wisconsin Power and Light, an Alliant Energy company, begins installing new metering technology in Columbia and Dodge counties.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY — AES Ohio is employing its “smart grid” project that promises to provide customers with smarter, more efficient service that bring an end to the meter reader’s monthly visit to ...

GREENWOOD, Del. (WBOC)- Every month a bill shows up in the mail from your electric company saying how much you owe and how much power you used. There was a time when the only way for the utility to ...

Lynnette Cervone, project manager for Southwest Gas Corp., vividly remembers an unrestrained dog that bit her when she was a meter reader. Unpleasant encounters with dogs are part of the job ...

VERO BEACH — Billy Offutt is used to walking almost 100 miles a week reading electric meters for the city. His daily commute to work will be almost as long beginning Monday, when he starts work for ...

If there were a meter measuring this career, it would read 40 years and precisely one day. Loveland residents might know Kent Meyer, supervisor to the city’s squad of meter readers, from all the times ...