For your family’s safety, maintain access to your electric and natural gas meters. Make sure that the area around your meters is clean and free of debris and obstacles. Also, during snowy weather, avoid snow-throwing or shoveling snow in a way that buries the meter or prevents access.

Be on the lookout for meter tampering

Meter tampering is dangerous
Electric service wires to homes and businesses deliver enough current to be deadly. Using metal objects and tools near the electric current in these lines can have devastating results. Tampering with natural gas meters can result in an explosion.

Meter tampering is expensive
The average customer pays about $60 a year for energy stolen by thieves who tamper with natural gas and electric meters. Anyone caught tampering with meters will have their service automatically disconnected and be charged for repairs, their entire past due balance and reconnection.

If you suspect meter tampering, contact We Energies Revenue Protection group at (800) 558-3303 ext. 3708. Calls are confidential and could save lives.