KEC offers a standard automated meter to all members purchasing electricity from us. For an additional fee, members may choose to participate in KEC’s Automated Metering Opt-Out Rate. Learn more about this option below or view the rate schedule.
Service under this rate is available to members concerned with the proximity of metering equipment to their home and to those desiring to minimize information collected by the cooperative’s metering equipment. For this reason, service under this schedule is only available at locations where a meter that is incapable of remote digital interrogation is installed as close to the point of transformation from distribution to secondary voltages as permitted by code and local ordinance and where the meter is fitted with a faraday cage approved by the cooperative. Costs related to the relocation of the point of metering will be subject to the cooperative’s relevant policies and procedures prevailing at the time the relocation is requested. Those costs will be billed separately and must be paid in accordance with those policies and procedures. Costs related to the acquisition and installation of the special metering equipment required to provide service under this rate will be included in the cost of conversion but will be billed net of the costs of providing and setting a standard meter. Costs related to the monthly manual interrogation of the meter will be subject to a separate meter reading and administrative charge as stipulated by this rate.
All metering locations billed under this rate will be manually read and billed on the same billing cycle. Members electing billing under this rate forgo the option of electing a different billing date. Further, members acknowledge that the metering equipment used to measure consumption will be unable to communicate with the utility and is therefore unable to be used to verify the restoration of power following a power outage. Members electing this rate will be required to monitor the cooperative's power restoration efforts reported through its website and self‐report outages affecting their service as needed.