PSEG remote gas meters available.

judy3x

Aug 22, 2014 at 10:24am Edited

I had been calling PSEG for about 2 years to get a new gas meter installed. The kind that can be read from the street. Finally called again yesterday and much to my suprise they were available and it was installed today! Apparently they got a shipment of lots of them..

hazel

Aug 22, 2014 at 10:27am

Thanks very much for the heads up!

knowlton

Aug 22, 2014 at 10:34am

Thanks, too.

nakaille

Aug 22, 2014 at 11:53am

Oh, good! Thanks!

kmk

Aug 22, 2014 at 12:02pm

This is huge!

soda

Aug 22, 2014 at 12:11pm

I called & was rebuffed. They're sending out "letters", area by area, he sez, and you can't just call & make an appointment w/o the letter, he sez... Policy, not his idea, he sez. Can he tell me when my address will get a letter? Nope, he sez.

...So maybe not so huge...

-s.

kmk

Aug 22, 2014 at 12:15pm

Grrr....
I have had an Estimated reading for 99% of the time over the last 10 years because the techs will not climb my stairs and request access to the meter.
I can not accurately gauge our overall usage without an accurate idea what we are using each month.

unrollingpin

Aug 22, 2014 at 12:32pm

PSE & G says that are "randomly" selecting houses that have old meters. If your house is selected you will be getting a notice in the mail. You can't call and request one. You just have to wait. Boo.

Apollo_T

Aug 22, 2014 at 3:00pm

I recall PSEG tried to sell them...$50. Are these freebies?

spontaneous

Aug 22, 2014 at 3:05pm

The previous owner of my home had mobility issues and didn't want to deal with meter readers so he had them upgraded. I love it. We've had ONE estimated reading in the past 12 months when our road was basically impassable due to all the snow.

jimmurphy

Aug 17, 2016 at 2:44pm

Resurrecting a zombie thread to inquire if others had luck with this. PSEG sent us a nastygram about not reading the meter for 18 months. They want a key - hell no.

Is there a good way to get the remote-read meter?

finnegan

Aug 17, 2016 at 5:49pm

I am sick of those nasty PSEG vms. At least 4 times in the past 6 months there has been some one home on the day the meter-reader was supposed to come by. Never have we heard a knock on the door or the doorbell ring. I think the guy sleeps in his truck and then reports that no one was home. If they want access to my house they can knock on the door or ring the bell for heaven's sake! If I thought I could reach an actual living person, I would call them....

DanDietrich

Aug 18, 2016 at 3:15am

Wow. I say hi to him every month. Maybe twice a year we miss each other.

KarenMarlowe

Aug 18, 2016 at 3:52am

I had a remote meter installed a number of years ago. I think it was after about the 15th time I called because I got a (wrong) estimated reading. I would put a post it on the door with the reading and they would never register it. No surprises now.

pmartinezv

Aug 18, 2016 at 4:49am

We got a remote meter installed after we got estimated readings for about 1.5yrs after we moved in because, truly, never having to deal with the gas bill before while living in JC or NYC, we did not know we had to do place the meter readings on the window. Once they finally came in and we got a very large $1200 bill (house was estimated very low since it had been empty for about 2 yrs), and while discussing how to pay for this bill, they simply offered us a remote meter. We really did not even have to ask. So in conclusion, if you fail to provide the readings for a long time, you are more likely to get a meter, or at least that was our experience. But you will end up with a very large bill to pay off although they will give you 12 months to do so oh oh