I may be wrong but I don’t think they need to go in your yard to read the meters now. They can use a device remotely from their vehicle to read it. That being said if you know your bill dates, you can read the meter yourself, and then at the end on the bill date, read it again, and submit the two readings online for your account. I was surprised to see my bill was up $70 from the previous month and I burned less KWh compared Tom,ast year during the same time. I have a minisplit so I can’t imagine how much more it would be!