Reading Your Meter

Give us your reading electronically

If you're a rural Klickitat PUD customer you have an important job -- reading your electric meter each month.

About 40 percent of our customers live outside of cities and towns; we ask them to read their meters to help keep our costs down. To send you an accurate bill each month, we need an accurate meter reading. If we don't get an accurate reading each month, our computer has to guess the customer's electricity use and send an estimated bill. That's not good for the customer or the PUD.

How to read your meter

  • If you have a digital meter, simply read the numbers showing, as you would the odometer in your car.
  • Older meters have dials and are a little more complicated:
      --First, read the dials from right to left, and write the numbers down in the same order.
      --If the pointer is directly on a number, read the next smallest number, unless the pointer on the dial is the right has passed zero.
  • For some meters, a multiplier is used to convert the meter reading to actual use. Note your meter multiplier when you return your meter reading, if applicable.
  • Read your meter every month.

    How to get your reading to the PUD

  • Record the reading right on your bill stub and mail it with your payment each month.
  • You can phone the reading in 24 hours a day by calling Lori in Goldendale at 773-7618 or Wanita in White Salmon at 493-9552.
  • Finally, you can give us your reading electronically.

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