Your meter has four or five small dials that record your electricity consumption .
Adjacent dials turn in opposite directions some turn clockwise and others turn counter-clockwise.
As electricity is used in the home, a disk in the meter revolves. This disk moves the hands on the dial, just as a car's odometer records mileage. The dials are read from right to left. When the hand is between two numbers on the dial, the lower number is recorded. The only exception is when the hand is between the numbers 9 and 0.