Meter multipliers that quietly inflate a cycle

Multipliers convert the register reading into billed kilowatt-hours. When a temporary construction multiplier stays on the account after a feed becomes permanent, every cycle inherits the same quiet inflation.

Signs worth checking

• A secondary feed whose usage share jumped after a renovation without a matching change in occupied floor area
• Serial numbers on the statement that do not match the plate photo on the cabinet
• Tenant recovery schedules that diverge from sub-meter registers by a near-constant factor

What a reconciliation delivers

A reconciliation table is deliberately narrow: identifiers, multipliers, and statement figures. It does not redesign your tariff. That focus is why property managers often start here before commissioning a wider energy usage billing audit.

Photograph meter plates with the serial and multiplier (or CT ratio) legible. Those images become the evidence annex when you speak with the utility account manager.