Every month, OGE reads your meter to determine the amount of your bill. Your meter also records valuable information about your home energy use, so let us help you decode those dials. Most traditional meters have four or five dials; some have numbers that turn like a digital clock. If you have a meter with a dial, here's how you read it:
- Read the dials left to right.
- On the 5-dial meter, the first, third and fifth hands turn clockwise; the second and fourth turn counter-clockwise.
- Read the number on each dial that the hand points to.
- If the hand is between numbers, read the lowest number it has just passed.
Reading these digits in order gives your usage reading in kilowatt hours (kWh).
