Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Transmission
metering. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable service tariff or other
contract documents, the total electric power and energy delivered to customer
will be measured alone or in conjunction with deliveries to others by metering
equipment to be furnished and maintained by authority. The meter or meters
shall be sealed and the seals shall be broken only upon occasions when the
meters are to be inspected, tested or adjusted, and representatives of customer
shall be afforded reasonable opportunity to be present upon such occasions. The
meter or meters shall be tested at least once each year by authority and at any
reasonable time upon request therefor by either authority or customer. Any
metering equipment found to be defective or inaccurate shall be repaired and
readjusted or replaced. Should any meter fail to register, the electric power
and energy delivered during the period of failure to register shall, for
billing purposes, be estimated by authority from the best information
available.
(b) Delivery and service
metering.
(1) Where delivery and service (as
distinguished from transmission) are carried out through the systems of others
and by the personnel of others, the total electric power and energy, including
reactive power and energy where authority deems appropriate, transmitted or
delivered to a customer (as distinguished from transmitted over the facilities
of others) will be measured by metering equipment and measuring devices to be
furnished and maintained by either authority or the utility providing delivery
and service. Seals on meters, meter equipment and associated equipment shall be
broken only upon occasions when the meters and measuring devices are to be
inspected, tested, or adjusted. No person, except a duly authorized and
identified representative of authority or the utility providing delivery and
service, shall be permitted to break or replace a seal or to alter or change a
meter of its connections or location, except when wiring changes are being made
by customer following receipt of appropriate specifications of authority or the
utility providing delivery and service as to service supply. In such case, a
qualified electrician may break the meter seal and remove and remount a meter
when authorized to do so by authority and/or by the utility providing delivery
and service, whichever seals such meter. Meters owned by the authority or the
utility providing delivery and service shall be tested by authority or such
utility providing delivery and service as mutually determined by
them.
(2) Should any meter fail to
register for any period of time, or if the actual power and energy usage cannot
be measured because of inability to read a meter or other measuring device, the
electric power and energy delivered during such period shall, for billing
purposes, be estimated by authority from the best information available, and
customer billed accordingly.
(3)
Except as provided in this section, customer shall not permit access by anyone,
except authorized representatives of authority or the utility providing
delivery and service, to the meter equipment or any other property of authority
or the utility providing delivery and service, and shall not interfere or
permit interference with such equipment. Customer shall be responsible for
their safekeeping on his premises. Duly authorized representatives of authority
and the utility providing delivery and service shall have the right to access
to the premises of customer and to all appropriate property of authority or the
utility providing delivery and service to all reasonable times for the purpose
of reading and testing meters, inspecting equipment used in connection with its
service, repairing, readjusting, or replacing defective or inaccurate meters,
metering the demand, ascertaining and counting the connected load of customer's
installation, removing its property, or any other purpose.
(c) Meters errors. If any of the meter tests
provided for in this section discloses that the error of any meter or meters
exceeds two percent correction based upon the inaccuracy found shall be made of
the records of electric service furnished since the beginning of the monthly
billing period immediately preceding the billing period during which the test
was made; provided, that no correction shall be made for a longer period than
such inaccuracy may be determined by authority to have existed. Any correction
in billing resulting from such correction in meter records shall be made in the
next monthly bill rendered by authority to customer, and such correction when
made shall constitute full adjustment of any claim between customer and
authority arising out of such inaccuracy of meters.
