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An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, energy meter, or kilowatt-hour meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence, a business, or an electrically powered device over a time interval. Electric utilities use electric meters installed at customers' premises for billing and monitoring purposes.
The term smart meter often refers to an electricity meter, but it also may mean a device measuring natural gas, water or district heating consumption. [1] [2] More generally, a smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor.
The company was incorporated in New South Wales on 30 November 1934 as Electricity Meter & Allied Industries Ltd; [1] it adopted the Email name (an acronym) on 20 October 1951. Email's original and longest running business is the manufacturing of electric, gas and water meters.
FirstEnergy Corp. is a privately owned electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio.It was established when Ohio Edison merged with Centerior Energy in 1997. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in distributing, transmitting, and generating electricity, energy management, and other energy-related services.
In 2005, Utilita became the first company in Great Britain to install a smart electricity meter in the residential sector, and in 2008 Utilita became the first to install a gas and electricity smart meter system. [1] By 2014, the company had 100,000 customers. [citation needed] In 2018, Utilita launched their energy management app, My Utilita.
Meter box cover manufactured by Ford Meter Box for New Orleans. Ford Meter Box was founded by Edwin Ford in Hartford City, Indiana in 1898. [1] He invented the meter box as a place to install water meters outside of homes that did not have basements. Ford's early experimentation found that meters could be installed in pits to protect them from ...
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The PPL Building, the company's former headquarters, at 9th and Hamilton streets in Allentown. PPL Corporation was founded as Pennsylvania Power & Light in 1920, the product of a merger of eight smaller Pennsylvania-based utility companies.