How to Read your electric or natural gas meter Your Avista
Utilities electric and/or natural gas meter is a precise
instrument with an outstanding record of accuracy. Before being
placed on your home, Avista Utilities employees calibrate meters
to within five tenths of one percent of total accuracy. The
flat, wide disk in an electric meter, or the quarter foot hand
on a gas meter, rotating, is your visual indicator that energy
is being used. They turn at a speed directly proportional to the
amount of energy flowing into your home at any given time.
Understanding your meter will help you understand your energy
usage. Avista Utilities meter readers generally visit your home
for an actual "read" each month. Meters are read approximately
every thirty days. Your meters will be read on or about the same
day each month. Different areas are read at different times.
Therefore, when a person moves from one address to another there
may be a change in the day of the month the meter is read.
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