Jittery Fredonia residents socked Mayor Michael Ferguson with phone calls recently about strange people going door-to-door. Turns out it was just National Grid. Ferguson told a village Board of ...

SPRINGFIELD — Your electric meter will soon be able to communicate with you in real time. That means a warning if you are using more power, and spending more money, than you’d planned. This week, ...

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The Borough of Chambersburg is planning multiple modernization projects for its utility departments. Natural gas, water, and electric departments are all moving to replace existing meters with ...

Utility Meters lead a tough, lonely life. Gas and electricity meters are baked in summer, frozen in winter, and rarely visited by a meter reader now that automatic meter reading (AMR) is so pervasive.

In our brave new world of smart appliances and internet-connected everything (why would I want my dryer linked to WiFi?), a lot of things are much more convenient. Unfortunately, one thing that's ...

Westerville residents are voting on a citizen-initiated charter amendment that could force the city to offer outdated utility metering technology over claims from some residents about microwave health ...