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Electric Meters

We use advanced electric meters to ensure accurate, real-time tracking of your energy usage. These meters support quicker outage detection, detailed usage data, and efficient billing—helping both the co-op and members better manage electricity and costs.

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Meter installations are essential for accurately measuring your energy usage. When you sign up for service or need a meter replacement, our team will ensure a safe and efficient installation. 

Need to install a new electric meter at your home?

Whether you’re looking to do a rack or underground installation, we’re here to help. After purchasing your meter base from Midwest Electric, give us a call to make sure you’re on the right track to getting power properly and safely installed (saving both our crews and yourself time, money, and energy). At the very least, you must call Midwest Electric at least 7 days before any trenching occurs, as well as call 811 before digging to make sure all underground lines are marked.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions if you’d like assistance.

Electric Meters

Midwest Electric has installed a Smart Grid, also called Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI).

The main benefits of AMI are:

  1. Remote meter readings
  2. System voltage readings and voltage control
  3. System blink data
  4. System outage information immediately
  5. Power restoration
  6. Load balancing
  7. Detailed daily and hourly kWh energy use data for individual members, thus helping identify high bill reasons and helping members control their individual energy use

All of Midwest Electric's meters are AMI meters throughout our system. 

Some have asked about potential health concerns related to radio frequency from AMI meters. Numerous government and private studies have shown those concerns to be baseless. Here is a summary with links to various studies.

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Meter Tampering

Meter tampering is both stealing and a crime. Since 1978, a revised Ohio law covering theft of utility service and tampering with utility equipment has been in effect. The statute provides that a person need not be seen tampering with his/her meter to be held responsible for such tampering. 

In addition, in a prosecution against a user who reconnects a device that was disconnected by a utility, such activity is now prima facie evidence that the user intended to defraud the utility.

The law defines theft of utility service as a first-degree misdemeanor if the value of stolen electricity, plus any utility equipment repair, is under $150. It’s a fourth-degree felony if the value exceeds $150 or if the offender was previously convicted of the charge.

Tampering carries similar penalties. Tampering is defined as “to interfere with, damage, or bypass a utility meter, conduit, or attachment with intent to impede the correct registration of a meter or proper function of a conduit or attachment.”

Conviction can mean from six months in jail and a $1,000 fine to five years in jail and $2,500 fine. Meter tampering costs all of us. It costs the cooperative, and it costs you. It is also dangerous.

If you witness someone tampering with their electric meter, contact your co-op office. Stealing electricity is a crime, and anyone caught violating the law will be prosecuted.