New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 5 - ELECTRIC SERVICE
Subchapter 4 - METERS
Section 14:5-4.2 - Periodic testing of electric meters
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 14:5-4.2
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) All direct current meters installed upon customers' premises shall be periodically tested in accordance with the following schedule:
1. Up to and including six kilowatts--at least once in 3 1/2 years;
2. Over six kilowatts, up to and including 100 kilowatts--at least once in 1 1/2 years;
3. Over 100 kilowatts--at least once in one year.
(b) The kilowatt rating of a direct current meter is the product of the rated voltage and the rated current.
(c) All types of alternating current watt-hour meters installed upon customers' premises shall be tested as follows:
1. Self-contained polyphase meters and transformer rated meters shall be tested at the following intervals:
i. Meters without demand register--at least once in 16 years;
ii. Meters with block-interval demand registers--at least once in 12 years;
iii. Meters with lagged demand registers--at least once in eight years.
2. Self-contained single-phase meters and three-wire network meters--at least once in eight years or by a variable interval or statistical sampling technique approved by the Board.
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