General Electric type I-70-S kilowatt-hour meter, residential electric induction meter for measuring power used by consumer. Unit removed from service in 2016 as part of a project to upgrade SMECO’s ...

[Ben Krasnow] is back, and this time he’s tearing down a kilowatt hour meter (kWh). While not as exciting as making aerogel at home, or a DIY scanning electron microscope, [Ben’s] usual understated ...

What Is a Digital Energy Meter? An electric meter or energy meter is an essential device that goes with consumption of commercially distributed energy. It enables systematic pricing of energy consumed ...

On the surface, the electric grid might seem like a solved piece of infrastructure. But there’s actually been a large amount of computerized modernization going in the background for the past decade ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. A quiet revolution is in progress in the utility industry. Electromechanical metering devices, in use for the better part of a century to record ...