This guide will help you know the amount you're spending based on the daily energy choices you make. This brochure provides a checklist of appliances that use the greatest amounts of electricity. If all those wheels and dials on your electric meter are a puzzle to you, don't worry. To help you keep track of just how much electricity you're using from month to month or day to day, follow these steps. Some dials on your electric meter turn clockwise, and some turn counter-clockwise.
Some meters have four dials, others five.
Both types work the same way. To begin, read each dial left to right, and write down the number its pointer has just passed. When the pointer is between numbers, record the smaller number. It's that easy. For example, if it is between 6 and 7, record 6.