How to avoid billing “spikes”
Summary
It is commendable that the town plans to conduct a public hearing to address the potential impact on customers’ utility bills. The article gives the false impression that it will take moving to smart meters to remedy this when, in actuality, these spikes are due to the TTWWADI syndrome – continuing to do something because it’s always been done that way. Back then, meters were read on paper and bills were produced manually, or with ledger card machines (if you don’t know what that is, thank your lucky stars!). I originally wrote about this topic eight years ago, in this post where I showed examples of how truncating readings to the thousands place can impact billings. Any fluctuations from one month to the next are based on actual usage, not the anomalies of whether their reading rolls to the next thousand gallons or not.
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