How can I physically determine if my National Grid gas meter is set up for wireless meter reading? Does anyone know what to look for? Also, if we do have one, how do they read it – inside the house, outside the house, or just driving by?

Here’s the story: About a year ago I took over handling the gas meter readings in our Brooklyn two-family home. (The family member who had handled it for decades was no longer able to.) No one’s around during the days/times National Grid is supposed to come around to take the reading, so the readings on our bills have either been ‘customer’ (where we phone it in) or ‘estimated’ (when we didn’t get around to phoning it in.)

Suddenly we received a bill with an ‘actual’ reading that was way the hell off. National Grid to their credit corrected the error, but the customer service rep said their must be a problem with our wireless gas meter (either it needs calibration or the battery died.) She insisted their records showed we had one.

The number of times I looked at the meter I didn’t see any plastic boxes or wires coming off it. Just an old-school Rockwell International gas meter with mechanical numeric readout.


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  1. I had remotely read con ed meters installed last year. They told me they weren’t installing them in my area yet but essentially did it to shut me up because their meter reader was never ringing my bell because he didn’t want to walk up the stoop (he actually told me that), I wasn’t able to navigate the steps to the cellar, I was getting crazy bills and I filed a complaint about it all with the PSC.

  2. OP: Frankly, it strikes me as Kafkaesque to celebrate what you don’t have, and the need to call in meter readings.
    Bkrules2: Con Ed does not yet have AMRs. I posted this link previously for National Grid AMRs: http://bit.ly/gaESxg
    If the link doesn’t open to Brooklyn info, you’ll have to scroll through the pull-down menus to reach the page. Alternatively, call NG at 718-643-4050.

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